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Tron Lightcycles, in Real Life

Posted by timothy on from the please-be-careful-in-there dept.

Digital_Quartz writes "This is a clever hack, using a laptop and GPS to play the classic Lightcycles game from Tron, using bicycles and a city. The page is a little light on details, but does give the essentials, including screen shots."

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  1. how about by zephc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you paint one of these little bikes red or blue, and ride around somewhere roomy.

    Hummunah.

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    1. Re:how about by cloudmaster · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The coefficient of friction for a tire is based on the size of the contact patch, though, and therefore the force due to friction (aka, "traction") is indeed related to the size of the contact patch. Mu is not a constant.

      Find some sticky motorcycle tires and put them on the back of my 412 HP car, and tell me that they hook up better than (or as well as) the 11" wide tires that are on it now. Well, after the motorcycle tires go up in a cloud of smoke after one hard launch, that is.

  2. The second outdoor video game by technoextreme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I noticed that this is the second video game that has been retrofitted for outdoors. Pac man was the first one that I know of. I wonder how many of these games can actually be made for the outdoors.http://www.pacmanhattan.com/about.php

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  3. GPS games by centauri · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My GPS (Garmin eTrex C) came loaded with several GPS-based games. One is a single-player lightcycles-esque game in which you run to spots to collect points whilst trying not to cross your own trail.

    The other games feature a maze, a pair-matching game a la Concentration, a Whack-a-mole type game, and an asteroids clone. I've been a little leery of trying them, lest I be arrested for wacky behavior in a public area.

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  4. Re:Hmmm... by comzen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't try this (or anything that get 40 police units swooping on you)! It only takes one "oops" on the part of a cop to put a 38 slug in your skull.

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