Coding4Fun is off the hook lately! Check out these great apps that are pushing the envelope in fun and cool ways
Scott Hanselman’s Controlling a Microbric Viper Robot using Windows PowerShell Logo
Yeah,PowerShell logo embedded into a Windows Form that can programatically control Robots. (Video demo)
Video: Programming Unreal Tournament AI bots
Andy Sterland, James Lissiak, and Tom Randell .NET Powered Unreal Tournament AI Bots
To show off how easy it is to program Unreal Tournament bots, I created my own “bot” which searches for a player called Dan and kills him on-site. It’s that easy! Andy, James, and Tom wrote this while students at University of Hull (UK), and they even held a tournament with students competing to create the best bot.
Visual Basic
1: Protected Overloads Overrides Sub PerformActions()
2: If Me.CurrentGameState.PlayersVisible.Count > 0 Then
3: 'You have someone visible you can shoot at
4: Dim allPlayers As List(Of UTBotOppState) = Me.CurrentGameState.PlayersVisible
5: For Each player As UTBotOppState In allPlayers
6: If player.Name = "Dan" Then
7: Console.WriteLine("Attack Dan, His health is: “ & player.Health)
8:
9: 'the “false” is asking to use alt fire (ex: grenades)
10: Me.BotCommands.Shoot(player.Location, False)
11:
12: End If
13: Next
14:
15: Else 'If no visible players, jump and rotate by 90 degrees
16: Me.BotCommands.Jump()
17: Me.BotCommands.RotateBy(90)
18: End If
19: End Sub
Visual C#
1: protected override void PerformActions()
2: {
3: //Get a count of visible players
4: if (this.CurrentGameState.PlayersVisible.Count > 0)
5: {
6: //You have someone visible you can shoot at
7: List
8:
9: foreach (UTBotOppState player in allPlayers)
10: {
11: if (player.Name == "Dan")
12: {
13: Console.WriteLine("Attack Dan, His health is: “ + player.Health);
14: //the “false” is asking to use alt fire (ex: grenades)
15: this.BotCommands.Shoot(player.Location, false);
16: }
17: }
18: }
19: else //if no visible players, jump and rotate by 90 degrees
20: {
21: this.BotCommands.Jump();
22: this.BotCommands.RotateBy(90);
23: }
24: }
Brian Peek’s Computer-Controlled R/C Car with Wireless Camera
Brian shows how to hack an R/C controller to drive an R/C from your computer, all using Microsoft Robotics Studio. This is so cool that I’ve asked him to send me one so I can create “Drive my car” Web app for Microsofties to take the car for a spin remotely.
Mark Harbakus iAccelerate Application
See how fast and furious your car is by using an Accelerometer. This is too tempting to try out :)
Arian Kulp’s iTunes-Style Desktop Search
It works on Vista and it’s very cool! My favorite features is the search by Old-ness and the dynamic categories. I was easily able to search for pictures from last year with a 200 ISO speed in fractions of a second. Arian has another mod (part 2) that I’m sure will be equally cool and useful.
This is just a sampling of recently posted articles by our rock-star authors…we have lots more cool content coming down the pipeline :)