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Robonica.com demo… Its looking very, very cool!

Stii — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:53:57 +0000

A while ago I wrote about Robonica, the coolest African startup. Here is a great video to give you a short and sweet intro to what it can do. I want 2!

The coolest new startup from Africa! Robonica.com

Stii — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:55:10 +0000

Who says there is no cool African startups? Hands up? Here is one of the coolest! One that not only has an awesome product, but a rock solid business model! A friend of mine contacted me this morning to show off his new venture and job in Pretoria. Bastard… (I’m jealous, okay?!) It is a comapany called Robonica and they’re developing robots and robotic games for a robot called Robonii. They’ve received cool funding (from who or where I don’t know yet) to build these robots and robotic games. HOW COOL IS THAT!

Now this is not exactly new. Think of Robosapien and Lego Mindstorm. This just looks a lot more exciting and fun! It is a cross between Robot Wars and the above mentioned, brought to the consumer market.

Basically, you buy this cool little Starwars look-a-like robot and get control center software which allows you to program the robot. You then set up challenges in you environment and program the bot to either do certain obstacles or you can have a laser fight with other robots. *drool* It will also extend to an online community, but I’m not 100% sure how that is going to work! You can download some specifications in PDF format over here.

They’re launching the product later this year in New York, so watch this space. I’ll try get more info in the meantime!

Play Leisure suit Larry online

Stii — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:01:36 +0000

Can you remember it? That awesome, fantastic game that every kid wanted to play or played! Adverture man! F’cking awesome graphics… Revolutionary!

Whether you’re too young to remember it, or want to go retro and live the experience again, don’t worry. You can now experience the awesomeness all over again. It is now flash based and online, so go play! http://sarien.net/larry

Play Star Wars IV in ASCII

Stii — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:46:12 +0000

Play Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII. I’m not sure if this works on Windows, but it does in Apple Mac’s terminal and are pretty sure it will work in the Linux Command line. Maybe Linux guys can let me know?

Open your terminal and Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl:

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

And enjoy! Nice and retro baby!

Tetris in Emacs (on OS X)

Stii — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:26:13 +0000

After my previous post about Tetris on OS X, I thought I’d let you know that you can also play Tetris in the Emacs editor on Unix based systems. Here is how you’d do it:

Open your terminal (Found in Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app)
On the command line type in emacs and press enter. This would open Emacs for you
In Emacs press Esc+x and type in tetris and press enter. Viola! you are playing Tetris!

Of course, as you can see from the screenshot below, its not the best quality you’ve ever seen! Thing is, if you feel traumatized at work for whatever reason and you cannot wait for Quinn to download, this is a good alternative! ;-)

Tetris for OS X (gaming is good for you)

Stii — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:04:18 +0000

Just read an article via Muti about how Tetris can be used to treat trauma. I have to admit, I quite like the odd game of Tetris every now and again! I found this nifty little Freeware Tetris game for OS X called Quinn, complete with online leader boards, network play with bonjour support to name a few. If on OS X, you can download it here.