Drinkable Chicken

This is an interesting idea: Cubelets: modular, affordable robotics for kids and students.

Basically you build a robot out of small parts (cubes, in this case), each of which are simple to understand by themselves.

As it happens, I had a somewhat similar idea a while ago… a game that should appeal to programmers. The idea is currently very crude, but it comes down to building a “robot” from 4 parts. There would be blocks that allow it to move, see, jump, shoot, etc. You then put this robot in a certain environment (a level) and program it in some kind of language. You beat the level if it performs a certain task (maybe reaching the end, or picking something up, or even surviving for a certain amount of time… there are many possibilities).

Maybe someday I will take a stab at fleshing out the game idea some more and implement it using my “retro kit” (a small library on top of PyGame that works with a 40×25 text screen like the Commodore 64; currently unreleased). Yes, I realize that saying “maybe someday I will…” is lame. The problem is more that I have too many ideas and too little energy/motivation to implement them. :( The chaotic environment doesn’t help either. >.<

[By the way, I started writing on this blog again, because it's currently somewhat hard to update Aquiline Ascension, mostly because I don't have a Mac that is up to snuff.]

[By the way #2, I am still selling a bunch of stuff on eBay. ;-)]