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High-Tech Foosball Mod Project

Posted by chrisd on from the thirty-dollar-magstripe-readers dept.

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.

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  1. Spinning not officially allowed by Trillian_1138 · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to the "Official Foosball Rules" that came with my foosball table (which came with the house when we bought it...) spinning is _not_ allowed in tournament games.

    As I've never played a 'tournament' I play with spinning allowed, but YMMV.

    -Trillian

  2. Re:Lingo and Serial Port Listining.. by TheTomcat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Director has much better support for third-party "Xtras" (plugins). Yes Lingo is a dirty, nasty language (better now that dot-notation is the norm), but I don't think serial-port interaction could be directly possible in Flash Player.

    See: Serial Xtra

    S

  3. Re:Not a troll, or an Anti-American post but.... by Sircus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Probably - ß actually stands for a double s. Thus, Straße can be written Strasse and Fußball can be written Fussball. I'd guess the 'oo' bit is either someone's misspelling based on football, or someone who thought it was 'Füßball' (note umlaut), which without German characters would be written 'Fuessball' and pronounced roughly 'Foosball' (though with a short 'a' - as in 'ran').

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