Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Fancy new UI

I've been working on dramatic improvements to the UI - position indicators, more gauges, and building in the support for a few features to come. Tell me if it looks familiar at all ;)


This would of course finally be full screen, with the video behind, and work in widescreen or 4:3.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

New car! New control!


Bigger, faster, actually has suspension, proportional steering and throttle, and simplified electronics through an ESC - awesome :)
Also the battery is higher voltage (7.2V) so I should be able to run the camera off the same battery!
However, the canopy is very flimsy so I'll have to create a new mount for the camera + gun.

Oh and what's that behind it?....


It's an old set of steering wheel and pedals that I picked up for $10 at an op shop! It's for a PS2 or Xbox original, but as Xbox is just USB, at Hackerspace tonight I lopped off the end and after a lot of cursing about anti-standard wire colours, got it recognised as a USB device under Windows. Have yet to try Mac. How awesome will it be to drive that car with a proper wheel and pedals!