wraggster
June 27th, 2013, 23:28
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Here’s a firmware hack that brings a video game to the Sony SmartWatch (http://www.labz.bz/?p=11). It’s pretty impressive considering the limited screen real estate and the fact that it has to be shared with the touch input. But we find it equally impressive that a game of this quality followed so quickly on the heels of Sony announcing the ability to make your own firmware (http://hackaday.com/2013/06/14/hackit-sony-invites-you-to-hack-its-smartwatch-firmware/) for the watch. The speedy development is thanks partly to the community driven effort to hack the Arduino IDE to load sketches on the watch (https://github.com/underverk/SmartWatch).
The advent of this IDE hack means that taking your Arduino sketch writing abilities to this hardware now has a fairly low learning curve. And reading through [Asier Arranz's] game code will make it even easier. He calls his game Star Wars but it reminds us more ofAstrosmash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrosmash). There’s a little green semicircle which is your ground-based defense vehicle. You need to fire the laser to shoot falling items out of the star-strewn night sky while also collecting power-ups that fall to the ground. Game play video is below.
Just remember, if you come up with a cool firmware app for the SmartWatch we want to hear about it (http://hackaday.com/contact-hack-a-day/).
http://hackaday.com/2013/06/27/astrosmash-style-video-game-as-sony-smartwatch-firmware/
Here’s a firmware hack that brings a video game to the Sony SmartWatch (http://www.labz.bz/?p=11). It’s pretty impressive considering the limited screen real estate and the fact that it has to be shared with the touch input. But we find it equally impressive that a game of this quality followed so quickly on the heels of Sony announcing the ability to make your own firmware (http://hackaday.com/2013/06/14/hackit-sony-invites-you-to-hack-its-smartwatch-firmware/) for the watch. The speedy development is thanks partly to the community driven effort to hack the Arduino IDE to load sketches on the watch (https://github.com/underverk/SmartWatch).
The advent of this IDE hack means that taking your Arduino sketch writing abilities to this hardware now has a fairly low learning curve. And reading through [Asier Arranz's] game code will make it even easier. He calls his game Star Wars but it reminds us more ofAstrosmash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrosmash). There’s a little green semicircle which is your ground-based defense vehicle. You need to fire the laser to shoot falling items out of the star-strewn night sky while also collecting power-ups that fall to the ground. Game play video is below.
Just remember, if you come up with a cool firmware app for the SmartWatch we want to hear about it (http://hackaday.com/contact-hack-a-day/).
http://hackaday.com/2013/06/27/astrosmash-style-video-game-as-sony-smartwatch-firmware/