Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot
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#52Extremely cool. WAF is extremely high.
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#53This is awesome. I'd love to have this for home practice. But can the robot shit talk? As a fellow lover of foosball I find that shit talking is ingrained in the culture as demoralizing an opponent (see Community) is a big part of winning at the highest level and should be the next step. I think a committed foosball player might end up creating the first true AGI just for proper shit talking. Foosball is a tabletop g…
Yeah my man! "You've been playing good, no matter what the others say"
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#54I'm really curious how this would've looked if he'd taken a mid-range budget approach to vision instead of being able to throw (tens of?) thousands of dollars of industrial motion capture cameras at it. Something like 2-4 global shutter cameras, all running a similar vision filter to what he first demo'd, feeding a kalman filter/state estimator to determine the ball's position. I can't blame hime for following the ma…
There was a post on HN where someone did positional tracking with cheap $5 Playstation Eye cameras and some infrared LEDs, so its definitely do-able.
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#55So cool! I played a shitload of foosball / table soccer / kicker / baby (foot). And I lived in different countries / continents and noticed there are so many variants... Some have plastic players, other little wooden players (my favorite). Some have players with flat feet, other with feet that have an angle (it's too easy IMO: way to easy to shot in diagonal: which is doable too with flat feet but requires more skill…
OMG, the French "pissette". Last semester I was there for an internship, took me a full week to get used to it.
Then there was the "râteau", used only by one of my colleagues (the strongest) when he was clearly loosing (very rare).
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#56So good. I had only ever played a couple of games in my life, mostly in a small pub here. I jumped into a game at a tech meetup in London about 15 year ago where I quickly found out that spinning the rod/players isn't allowed, the guy I was playing against got very upset while I was having a great time :D
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#57I knew I recognized him! He made a full blown CPU inside a video game called Terraria:
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
No such problem in a browser. Perhaps the weird choice is creating, or using, an app for a web site in the first place.
I don't think that is true. If you run the Nginx web server on Linux for example, with a case sensitive file system, I'm pretty sure that the files you serve will also by default have case sensitive URLs. And probably it'd be the same with Apache on Linux with a case sensitive file system.
What? Case-sensitivity is the presumed default everywhere.
I said there is no such problem in a browser, meaning, the url is displayed correctly, not converted to lower case, meaning, the problem is only in the app, and I'm suggesting: "Who needs a phone app for this anyway?"
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#59There seem to be some sort of tracking dots on top of some of the “players” but that didn’t seem to be mentioned in the video.
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#60Obviously, this kid's going places ...
The ellipsis feels sarcastic btw, if you did not understand where the downvotes are coming from.
Apparently younger people find ellipses come across as passive-aggresive… which is often not what the older writer is trying to convey.