Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino 94
adeelarshad82 writes
"The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray — Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console video game fame has been converted into an eight-by-eight LED matrix by Carnegie Mellon University student Chloe Fan. However, the game isn't quite the Mario you know from your legacy Nintendo Entertainment System. For starters, it's just lights. While one often sees the game's LED-backed grid used in devices like the open-source Monome, where it can function as a push-button toggle for music beats and effects, Fan's version of Mario uses the grid as a display only. Mario — or rather, a one-light representation of the game's hero — is controlled NES-style through the use of two buttons. One button makes Mario move forward; the other makes him leap into the air."
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And his are probably small enough to be represented life-size.
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What's up with her voice? She's obviously intelligent, but she talks like she has down syndrome.
Thank you for helping maintain American stereotypes, jerk.
Live version (Score:5, Interesting)
I've always enjoyed this version [youtube.com] of super mario
Re:Live version (Score:5, Funny)
This one's better, but it has a bit of swearing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6RZzdGki8 [youtube.com]
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You say that as if the swearing was something bad. ^^
But hey, always remember what happened to Mario, after he got the princess: ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBGRA6HHtY [youtube.com]
Poor Mario...
Just lights (Score:1, Interesting)
For starters, it's just lights.
So.. just like Nintendo's Mario game then.
Two classic games combined (Score:4, Insightful)
This 8x8 version almost looks like a combination of Super Mario and Tetris.
Re:Two classic games combined (Score:5, Informative)
Disclosure: company belongs to a friend of mine, but I have no financial interest.
Re:Two classic games combined (Score:4, Funny)
You know you really don't have to disclose that sort of thing just to comment on slashdot ;)
Re:Two classic games combined (Score:4, Insightful)
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There's a company called HACEDuino that makes Arduino kits if you're interested. Cheap, they sell them on Ebay out of Australia. Neat little kits, I have one myself.
Apress just put out a new book called "Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware" [tr.im]. I've been tempted to pick it up, since it looks like a pretty interesting, but wasn't too sure how expensive it would be to get into another hobby programming kit.
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Hmmm... I wonder what that would be like . o O http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276 [newgrounds.com]
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COOL! That's actually a pretty interesting little mashup.
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Bah. Call me when he has a version of Myst on an 8x8 display. I would also be suitably impressed by a port of Duke Nukem Forever.
Great project! (Score:2)
Wicked cool. (Score:2)
Awesome job. Now, finally, can there never be another "girl gamers don't exist" joke? Can we please turn that corner in 2010?
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Girl gamers don't exist.
There's no computer or video game console in the laundry room nor the kitchen.
Mario reduced to 12x16 with toaster and bread (Score:2, Funny)
Because not everyone can afford shiny electronics. [epicwinftw.com]
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Word.
Wouldn't mind seeing a flash version of this. (Score:2)
That would be nice.
It's been done before. (Score:1, Informative)
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Not to mention that the Arduino contains a boot-loader...
Sure, the DIY part is cool, but to say that this was a difficult feat isn't very accurate...
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Incoming (Score:1)
Nintendo lawyers in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Chloe Fan (Score:5, Funny)
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Not Super Mario Bros. (Score:3, Insightful)
Then again, "8x8 platformer created with Arduino" wouldn't attract as much publicity.
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I see it as appropriate here.
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There's no need for the (n?).
The word starts with a consonant, and just because Americans seemingly can't pronounce the letter H, doesn't mean you have to lower yourself also.
A Homage, not Anomage. Your children will thank you.
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The "h" in "homage" is silent in the preferred pronunciation [merriam-webster.com]. So if you're using the preferred pronunciation it's "an homage", just like "an hour"; but if you're using some dialect where the h is pronounced, "a homage" would be correct.
So either could be ok here, but I have a strong urge to punch people who say "an historic occasio
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From a coder's POV this is a great example of input/output processing on Arduino!
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Uzebox (Score:2)
Meh, I prefer Dodgy Kong (Score:2)
Doesn't everyone getting a BSEE do this? (Score:1)
About the only thing that is slashdotty is that the electronics platform is open source electronics, but I'd rather see an article about an open source rapid p
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It was deemed newsworthy because:
1. There's a video.
2. A girl made it.
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I don't understand the pertinence or relevance of open source hardware. When you purchase electronic components, you pay for the licensing costs of these components as part of the purchase price (in this case Atmel). What you do with these components, especially if you wish to market your product, is still subject to existing or prior patents - for example the plant hydrometer from TFA. I must be missing something so thank you for enlightening me.
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DHS response: (Score:2, Funny)
It's a bomb! Lock her up and probe her anus immediately!
Some other plays on video games (Score:2)
Super Mario:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbs9N7x_3w [youtube.com]
Err...crossover between Pong and the Matrix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI [youtube.com]
Tetris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bekQU9l8hk [youtube.com]
What's it with Arduino, anyway? (Score:2)
From my pov, it went from "did not know it existed" to "why is everyone so excited" pretty much over night. I don't get it and would appreciate it if anyone told me why this particular bit of hardware hit home so hardly.
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From my pov, it went from "did not know it existed" to "why is everyone so excited" pretty much over night. I don't get it and would appreciate it if anyone told me why this particular bit of hardware hit home so hardly.
Because when I was in EE classes in college it took weeks (probably faster for someone who knows what they were doing) to build up projects using ICs and little microcontrollers. The microcontrollers also had to be programmed with a UV eraser and reprogrammer, which required having a printout of the machine code in hex, and typing it all by hand into an eeprom programmer.
Now with the Adruino, you get a USB interface to a very cool little chip that you can upload C code on to. There's also bunches of modules (shields) that you can link together to create your project. Ethernet modules, wireless modules, input device modules, output device modules (led/lcd screens). All these boards can work together in harmony... versus building all this stuff from scratch with the basic components. They are also quite cheap compared to what it would cost to build from scratch.
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I share the GPs opinion, just for different reasons.
The Arduino is a good decade behind the times as far as all the features you list.
It's hard to get excited about a product that does what a lot of us in the micro controller field have been doing back in the early 90s using PIC and basic stamps and SX chips and the like.
Full micro controller hardware on one chip (CPU, ram, flash, timers and clocks, interrupts, and external hardware modules made just for the chips packaging)
While the PIC is a poor example (
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It may be no big deal to someone who has been working in embedded systems for a while, but it lowers
the barrier of entry for the rest of us.
I am just starting to get into micro controllers. At work, I have worked on PIC18 and PIC24.
For either of those two, you need an ICD 2 or ICD3 to get your code into them. That will set you
back a good $200. Alternatively, you can find a board with a serial boot loader. Then there
is the C compiler. The unrestricted one will set you back another $500.
By contrast, the
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Impressed? I Should Be Impressed? (Score:2)
Hardly.
Now "Kamikaze Ducks" impressed me. BASIC source (in some old old computer hobbyist magazine back around 1982 or so), which I ported to every computer (from DEC mainframe to Commodore 64) I had access to.
But a single pixel "jumping" up and down, a static "terrain" (e.g., blocks) that can move left to right?
And this girl's in college?
If she were 9, I'd be impressed.
Still waiting for 8x8 Modern Warefare 2 (Score:2)
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