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High-Tech Foosball Mod Project
JakeBullet writes: "Project:
Take a standard foosball table and make it a little bit smarter. 1. The table should be aware of who's playing, the score and the status of the game. 2. Take the data from the game and use it to create a stats engine and player ranking system. 3. Project all relevant information about gameplay onto a flat screen. 4. Spend under $50.
> Spend under $50.
Hey CowboyNeal, bet'ya $49.95 you can't take this laptop, climb inside that foosball table and stay down there while I hammer the surface back on..
...can it sense your mood when you're loosing?
A)bort, R)etry or S)elf-destruct?
From the article: In my opinion, the most interesting part of the project is the database that ties everything together. When the user swipes his or her NYU card, Director takes this information and sends it to a ASP script (running on an Windows 2000 box that is tied to an Access database). This ASP script runs a MySQL query through Access and spits back XML that contains information on the player (wins, loss, average points per game, number of games played, etc) . This XML is passed back into Director via getNetText and put into global variables which are then fed to the screen at the appropriate time.
ASP script on a Win2k box, tied to an Access DB, which runs MySQL queries, spitting out XML which is parsed in Director. Does this guy actually realizes what he has written?
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Hmm. Let's consider the choices, shall we?
1. Fun
2. Not Fun
This guy chose (1) and now has an excellent foosball game, plus the admiration of thousands (notably NYU females, admit it, they're hot) and only a small load on his (borrowed) server.
You chose (2) and I suspect are at home poring over recent InfoWorlds.
Who's the better man? I leave that to posterity to decide. But I can guarantee I know who's enjoying his life more.
I'd love a Spin Detector on my TV... so that whenever a politician's trying to spin something I can be warned... ...although I guess it would prove useless because the damn thing would be flashing all the time...
yours,
kbs
Spend a tenner on a ball. Get some people together. Find some green space. Use jumpers as goalposts. Play football. Ask one player to keep score.
Afterwards, in the bar, assess each other's footballing ability in a haze of lager and spittle.
rinse and repeat.
With some, in order to actually get a haze of lager, it might get a bit more expensive.
-k
yours,
kbs
You are absolutely righy, and yet I can't help feeling that it doesn't actually matter.
Its a foosball game.
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
It's easy ... 3 Parts Gin, 4 Parts Vodka, 1 Part foosball table.
Google for "history of foosball" and you get this.
Apparently it's a decades-old transliteration of the German word.
Yeah, and while we're at it, I don't recall ever seeing the forwards connected together with a metal rod, restricting them to left-right movement. Same for the defensemen, too. Therefore, I vote against the foosball players being tethered together like that, because it's not like real life.
Not every table game has to be like real life. You play by the mechanics and rules given to you. What matters is that everyone has fun and nobody else's expense.
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Uh oh. The guys in my frat (don't ask) used to play a form of foosball where if you were shut out then you put your name on the wall of shame, and played with your pants down until you scored a goal.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Here in Texas the pronunciations of place names given by German immigrants seem to have no connection to how they sound in German.