> I figured out what would be a reasonable amount to spend on the project and then multiplied that by 10.
I like the way you think.
shawoodle65 2 minutes ago [-]
surprised this isn't talked about more
mastermedo 13 minutes ago [-]
A thousand bucks for 17x17 touchscreen. Add a painting frame, hang it on the wall, and you made yourself amazing art for cheap.
eps 31 minutes ago [-]
I saw one in a computer museum in Switzerland. It was a much larger field, it was just large orange LEDs (or were they tubes?), but it also cycled between a dozen of different cell automata games. Something about being able to see individual "pixels" made it really mesmerizing.
A grid of capacitive touch sensors could be printed directly on the pcb, bringing down costs by a degree of magnitude. Real switches are much more satisfying though.
f1shy 41 minutes ago [-]
I want to do a game like lights out. I'm thinking in 3d printing transparent caps and using dirt chip pcb switches and standard leds. The cost must be also down to 30 cts. Would be like a middle ground.
galaxyLogic 2 hours ago [-]
I wonder is there a version GoL where every bit on a computer-display or LCD TV is one cell? How does it look?
eps 28 minutes ago [-]
Conversely, it'd be cool to play it on an large empty office building.
Do you mean every pixel or every sub-pixel?
Sub-pixel is interesting because the geometry of the grid isn't going to be the same from one screen to the other. It might also look compressed horizontally.
vscode-rest 54 minutes ago [-]
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vunderba 4 hours ago [-]
Nice. A friend of mine just picked up a Linnstrument, and I’m very tempted to create a Conway’s Game of Life-based musical visualization for it.
I've always wanted something like this board, buttons which can light up (preferably a few colours), to use to make games. Anyone ever found such a board which is hackable / programmable?
rmnclmnt 1 hours ago [-]
Novation Launchpad used to be exactly that: you send MIDI CC messages with proper values and you can light up the grid (with different colors).
Did that a few years back, i guess this might still be possible
The device that I think popularized that design (citation needed) was the Monome (https://monome.org/) that looks like it is also still around and it has (always had?) some kind of open source license (https://github.com/monome).
self_awareness 35 minutes ago [-]
That's not a "physical" version of game of life -- that's a digital version, like every version, but with bigger pixels.
fwipsy 2 hours ago [-]
I don't want to build this or pay for it, but I really want to mess with it for an hour.
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I like the way you think.
A grid of capacitive touch sensors could be printed directly on the pcb, bringing down costs by a degree of magnitude. Real switches are much more satisfying though.
One window = one pixel.
https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument
Did that a few years back, i guess this might still be possible
Looks like they are still around? https://novationmusic.com/launchpad
Also seems to be in stock locally.
The device that I think popularized that design (citation needed) was the Monome (https://monome.org/) that looks like it is also still around and it has (always had?) some kind of open source license (https://github.com/monome).