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Driver's-Seat Driving Game Controller
RichardX writes "The folks at Real Virtual Car have taken an old car, hooked up a projector to the windscreen, USB on the steering and pedals, connected it all up to a PC and ended up with what may be the single greatest homemade games controller ever." Even a force-feedback steering wheel!
Screw that, drive a REAL car. There's nothing like a cool, crisp day, with the wind blowing in your hair, as you shift to 5th gear, going over 70 MPH.
"Look, a cyclist! 30 points!"
"No, over there! On crutches! 100 points!"
Windshield sounds so much better, like it is some kind of protective device that makes you invincible, allowing you to run over pedestrians with gleeful abandon. Windscreen on the other hand sounds like something that could barely keep flies out of your automobile.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
already?
http://realvirtualcar.blogspot.com/
Have a nice day =)
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So? Don't you ever just want to MAKE something with your own two hands? That's what drives people like this. The whole "do it yourself" thing. It doesn't matter how much it costs. What matters is that you're enjoying doing it.
With an entire chassis, why did they opt for just one speaker behind the driver?
There are small, decent sounding, and (relative to the cost of the car shell) inexpensive 5.1 setups. And you'd be able to mount most of the speakers in the existing speaker mounts.
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If that "5V/12V variable pulse speed gauge" doesn't cut it, I don't know what will.
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If my kids hear about this, I'm screwed!
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
If you live near one of these
http://www.smsonline.com/centers/index.html
you can ride a close to life size Nascar car that moves a little. About 10 are networked together and you race against each other. The race is projected onto a screen in front of you.
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
http://www.force-dynamics.com/video/force-dynamics _301-rbr-rallyschool.wmv
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I drive a '71 SIIA 88" Land Rover. Not only do I have a cracked windscreen, but I also have a tyre on my bonnet.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
I saw Disney movie when I was a kid where there was a kid from the day he was born had nothing on his mind but cars. They had this one scene where he's behind the wheel of a vehicle desk in a classroom learning how to drive while watching a driving movie (the kid managed to crash his vehicle desk -- don't ask me how). I thought that was the coolest thing ever (this was long before computers became available for the home).
So when I got to high school, I was expecting the same thing. Instead, they handed me a booklet to study and told me that my parents would teach me how to drive. WTF! My Dad had a one-ton truck and he would not teach how to drive that. So I never did learn how to drive as a teenager. I was so bitter...
All cars have game controllers -- they're called steering wheels, brakes, and accelerators. With the appropriate combination of l33t combo moves, you can pretty much win the following games on your morning commute (in Atlanta):
- Gran Turismo: I-285 Edition
- Need For Speed: GA400 Gridlock
- Project Middle Finger Racing
- Grand Theft Auto: Midtown Street Parking Edition
In Ohio, you have a car game unavailable in most parts of the country (although LA just introduced it, from what I hear):
- Freeway Sniper Spy Hunter
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Wouldn't your Driver's Ed teacher (aka the basketball coach) be much happier if he could verify your skills in one of these, rather than from the passenger seat with nothing but a second brake pedal between him and being pwnx0rd by a bridge abutment?
... so we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight, I says let them truckers roll, 10-4, 'cause we got a mighty Convoy rockin' through the night...
It's not such a crazy idea... check out the Truck Driver Simulation Mobile Classroom. It's a full-sized full-motion multi-screen 18-wheeler simulator, designed to help train professional truck drivers. The unit -- which itself is housed in an 18-wheeler trailer -- claims to be "unlike any in the world," although the folks in the UK are trying to catch up.
Myself, I'd like to see what it's really like to climb in the cab and say
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
"They probably could've purchased any arcade racing game for cheaper..."
He also could have just read a book instead. There, I was insightful to those who are disturbingly practical in life, mod me up.
"Derp de derp."
Let's see...did that year have a "carburettor"? I know it had sparking plugs. Always remember to toot the hooter when you run your tyres over the kerb. The tools were in the boot, I'm thinking. Only thing funnier than "English" English in car and motorcycle manuals is "Japanese" English...Japanese motorcycle manuals from the 60s were a scream...
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Not that I agree, but it seems like everyone here makes their decisions according to the laws of microeconomics rather than what they really want to do.
Not only that, but it seems everyone generalizes on the behavior of everyone else who posts here.
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Many people tell this joke, but unfortuantely most people have no idea where it came from.
Death Race 2000 (1975) was a movie where killing people with your car was a national sport. You got different points for the different ages, races, etc.
Most metropolitan areas have the DVD in one of the multiple video stores, and it's an interesting movie... especially with Sly Stallone getting second billing to David Carradine. Learn your history, the fun way. Next week: Q-Tips!
"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly" - Touchstone,Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
Which always rises a bit when in France.