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Game On / Weekend Project III

Sep 25th

Few weeks ago I posted about playing pong using tilt sensors on the phone, Now me and Abhimanyu have taken that to the next level and have made it a generic game controller for any game running on the computer. We faced some problems when Abhimanyu’s Samsung Wave refused to work, but luckily i bought a Samsung Galaxy 3 (Android 2.1) about a week before that, so we shifted out focus on Android.
For Game On we make use of the phone’s sensors and touch screen to generate different gestures and motion events, we use these events to generate control data and sent the control data over a socket to the computer over a wireless network. On the PC the received data (different for each motion event or gesture) is processed by the computer and a specific task is performed, in this case generating a Key Event.
The Code for Game On can be found on github

Here is a video of the android phone (Samsung I5800 Galaxy 3) being used to control a car racing game.

And now the working

After this we decided to work on something which i wanted to finish a long time ago (remember Weekend Project I) so we finished Weekend Project III which is well Weekend Project I + Weekend Project II

And the working of Weekend Project III

Weekend Project III Data Flow

The Data Flow is Phone —-WiFi—-> PC —-USB—-> USB to RS232 Converter —-UART—-> MicroControler —-Relays—-> Toy Car Remote —-RF—-> Toy Car, which is almost same as that of Weekend Project I, except for processing of Sensor Data on Phone.

PS – if you were not able to look at the video’s above they can be found here, here, here and here, also Game On won 2nd prize in Mobi Vision – a mobile application development competition

MobiVision in TextTatva (by Ed Board Manipal)

MobiVision in TextTatva and i dont exactly look like that cartoon depicting me !!

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MobiVision, Techtatva 08, LUG Manipal and lots more….

Oct 20th

Posted by Ankur Shrivastava in college

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I am posting to my blog after a long long time and a lot has happened, first Lets start with MobiVision.

People in MobiVision Workshop

MobiVision (Brain child of Subhendra Bhaiya) was a workshop conducted by people from LUG Manipal ( well not officially but everyone involved in it was from LUG Manipal ) as the name suggests it was on developing Application for mobile Plateform, basicly targeting Python for Series 60 and Android, We were expecting turnout of around 100 people and more the double turnout took us by surprise, it saw a partisipation of over 200 which comprised of guys/gals from First to Fourth year which was really amazing we even had people doing PG showing Interest, we had some trouble managing them in 2 rooms which were alloted to us but in the end every thing turned out pretty well. We had 2 Teams ready one for Python S60 and one for Android, Both teams did a great job and made Mobivision the most sucessfull Workshop in Techtatva 08.

Team MobiVision

Next was Techtatva 08 which is the annual Technical Fest of Manipal Institue of Technology, Manipal, Here again LUG Manipal was in full control ( and again not officially!!! ) we were to conduct events for the Computer / IT Catagory called ” PARAM ” and we planned to change the previously conducted events so as to make them fit in the 4 basic catagories of people –
1) ” MobiVision ” for Inovators here teams where to come up with a inovative Idea for Mobile Application and a prototype
2) ” Jour ” for Developers here teams were to make any one of the three Projects and give a Presentation and Demonstration of their product
3) ” CodeBytes ” for Programers the usual problem solving event with not so usual questions
4) ” Puzzle Mania ” for Every Day internet users comprising of all sorts of Puzzels
all the events saw good participation from all years and were prased for not having a single glitch.

Raunaq, Me and Nishant

I also made a Deligate and Event Registration system for managing and registering all the people coming for Techtatva 08 and also a CBT ( Computer Based Test ) system for priliminary rounds of some events, it was all basicly made in PHP and used MySQL as primary Database and was hosted on a Fedora 9 ( for those of you who dont know what it is — Its a GNU/Linux Distribution and also my Primary OS ) based server running Apache in Student Councels room because we/I were/was denined permition to host it on the main Manipal University server, they said “You are a Threat for our Network!!!” ??? which left me wonder what kind of stuff they do there and what did i do to them??? ( reason for which i got to know later ) anyways we managed to get a lab computer for using as a server, it had a AMD Athlon x3800 CPU, 80 GB HDD and 1GB RAM, which was all i needed for my work, the PC was formatted and fresh Fedora 9 was installed on it, after this all updates were applied which didn’t took much time as the connection there is not at all like I-ON and is at least 10 times faster ( well it was MAHE LAN and I-ON is WiFi but still!!! ) some changes in http.conf and iptables and it was ready. The System ran without a glitouch except when someone made the LAN cable for the server loose which made all on Registration Desks shouting but luckly everything was back online in 2-3 mins. The CBT’s also ran very good and results were decleared as soon as the alloted time was over and there were no objections.