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Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by ilyt »

rjmunro wrote: post #52
kube-system wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ABS is very simple and only needs to know the difference between the speed of the tire and the speed of the road. It is more complicated systems like ESC (which works with ABS) that need to know about steering inputs.

I thought the "speed of the road" was calculated by checking the speeds of the other types, which is trivial if you are going in a straight line, but needs correction if you are steering, hence needs steering angle? Or is there a simpler way in non-ESC systems?

Simple ABS only cares if the wheel is stationary/goes much slower vs other wheels. Like it wouldn't be perfect but still vast improvement over locking all 4 wheels. Hell, the older ABS systems controlled pair of wheels and activated on both regardless of which one was locking

I'd imagine once they are implementing ESC the ABS also gets the benefit of steering sensor but it is not strictly necessary.

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by Graziano_M »

myko wrote: post #25
modeless wrote: post #17

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet that this is a built in feature on Teslas. Not Mario Kart, of course, but a generic kart game that you can play with the real steering wheel.

Be careful playing the Tesla kart game, don't wear your tires down by steering the wheel too much

I doubt the wheels turn at all while in this mode.

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by sokoloff »

ilyt wrote: post #58
deepspace wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could play while driving. Solves the accelerator and steering problems at the same time.

Extra challenge, drive the same track in real life and in video game

Extra-extra challenge: drive a different track in real life as in the game.

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by omegabravo »

Graziano_M wrote: post #63
myko wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful playing the Tesla kart game, don't wear your tires down by steering the wheel too much

I doubt the wheels turn at all while in this mode.

they do turn unfortunately turn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sanbI_ze8c

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by jmiskovic »

I wonder if there's a market for VR simulator that uses your actual car as a controller? Mostly for practicing maneuvers like parallel parking, or entering a busy multi-lane turnaround, but also for more immersive racing. It would require ODB-to-Bluetooth adapter and a standalone headset. Main tech difficulty would be dealing with all the different cars, and limitations of standby mode like the lack of power steering.

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by ilyt »

sokoloff wrote: post #64
ilyt wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extra challenge, drive the same track in real life and in video game

Extra-extra challenge: drive a different track in real life as in the game.

Reminds me of some speedruns where 2 or 3 games were played at same time via one input

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by sokoloff »

ilyt wrote: post #68
sokoloff wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extra-extra challenge: drive a different track in real life as in the game.

Reminds me of some speedruns where 2 or 3 games were played at same time via one input

Have you tried https://flappybirdle.com/

Re: Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016)

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Post by kube-system »

ilyt wrote: post #61
rjmunro wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the "speed of the road" was calculated by checking the speeds of the other types, which is trivial if you are going in a straight line, but needs correction if you are steering, hence needs steering angle? Or is there a simpler way in non-ESC systems?

Simple ABS only cares if the wheel is stationary/goes much slower vs other wheels. Like it wouldn't be perfect but still vast improvement over locking all 4 wheels. Hell, the older ABS systems controlled pair of wheels and activated on both regardless of which one was locking I'd imagine once they are implementing ESC the ABS also gets the benefit of steering sensor but it is not strictly necessary.

To nitpick, simple ABS is an improvement over locking some of the wheels. It often struggles with preventing a lock of all 4 wheels, because it loses reference for the road speed. A dumb ABS system with just wheel speed sensors can't tell if [0,0,0,0] means all 4 are locked, or if you're stationary.

I don't know as much about the implementation details of modern ESC systems, but I'm guessing this problem is much easier to solve with accelerometer data.

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