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HOWTO use the Wiimote buttons in Flash

HOWTO use the Wiimote buttons in Flash

A while back, WiiNintendo posted the keycodes that are detectable by Javascript when the Wii’s buttons are pressed. With this ability, you can create Javascript games that will play on your Wii. Unfortunately, even though the Wii browser ships with the Flash plugin, those keycodes cannot be detected natively in the Flash environment. Quasimondo came […]

3310 Nokia LCD & PIC 12f683

Pyrofer writes – Here’s a single chip game watch – using only a nokia 3310lcd and a pic 12f683. I’ve written a boulderdash clone you can wear on your wrist powered by a single cr2032 battery, lasting several days & the whole thing is very low power. Large scrolling maps mean the small screensize isnt […]

Extracting a 3D Model from drawings

Perspective techniques to extract a 3D model from a painting, nice! – Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends itself to historic reconstruction via referenced hand drawn images. Over eight years ago we used […]