Post date: Apr 18, 2012 10:04:15 AM

My car apparently has an OBD II Diagnostic bus

So it should be fairly easy to pull out some data? Famous last words :-)

Post date: Apr 16, 2012 12:00:00 PM

I’m considering grabbing one of these devices for the audio amplifier.

It’s easily found on EBay, Amazon, and google searches as:

“TDA7850 50W 4 CH 12V Car Audio Amplifier Board DIY Kit”

However, it’s a fixed gain amp, so on the plus side everything is controlled by the computer.

The downside is that every bit of noise will be amplified too.

Post date: Apr 16, 2012 12:00:00 PM

The specification for identifying mainline clients is the “v” key in the root dictionary of every message.

These are in the wild. I noticed a South Korean client that claimed that it was a uTorrent client (UTz\xAD) that:

114.200.XX.XX:345YY v:UTz\xAD is trying to convince me I’m: 114.200.XX.XX:440ZZ

The port was correct, but the ip was the buggy/malicious clients own.

A Vietnamese ‘uTorrent’ client (UTy\xA3) claimed that I was 192.168.1.1:440ZZ, which while it had the port correct, thought I was on an internal network.

So I’ve been playing with with Unreal Engine on and off since January, and some folk that know that I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with games and app-store stuff have said “Why not make a Rogue-Like RPG-Thing?”, and another game-dev friend (who actually has a full-time job in said industry) put my arm up my back and “invited” me to his project. Since I prefer short turn around projects (and his timescale is a couple of years) I thought I’d try and combine the two and try to make a casual-ish RPG and learn UE4 and build some components while I’m at it. I’m a software engineer, right - that’s what I’m supposed to be doing!

Post date: Apr 16, 2012 12:00:00 PM

Useful Information

Baud Rates

Modem type used: V.23 aka 1200/75 7,e,1 (7 data bits, EVEN parity, and one stop bit – as opposed to the usual 8,N,1)

Your modem will be able to recognise this, as it usually auto-trains when you send “AT” to it.

Dial up

Can’t get your Prestel Terminal to dial up, because your cheap PABX doesn’t support pulse dial?

OBD II / Engine Diagnostics

Mercedes C180 Kompressor (2004) OBD-II Port

Documentation and exploration of OBD-II diagnostics on the Mercedes C180 Kompressor (2004).

Originally posted on Google Sites

Or did I?

I spent some of last week rewriting the tunnel game as the initial reactions to the game were good, and bought the android license for unity. Erk. It’s all a little broken as I had to essentially rewrite it and redo all the assets, and I got hung up on the control method. Still, I have ideas for that.

This weekend, I put some time aside for tools writing. I had earlier in the week been chatting to a chap (SteamPunk) on the unity3d channel on freenode who was doing a space game. As my big-huge-project-that-I-need-to-do is also a space game what he was looking for oddly coincided with mine. We had been given a link on procedural-based ship building (project description, webgl demo) by another chap on the channel (SuperPig).

So this weekend(ish) I’m writing a much more complicated game. Ancient british geeks will remember 3D Ant Attack! [wikipedia] :-)

So the gameplay is basically:

• Search city and find your partner. Guide them to the exit.
• Avoid the mutant ants

New things to learn/implement:

• Animation
• Procedural Generation of City
• Weapons/Damage

A sample of random game demos :-)

Demos:

• Tunnel - Oct 04, 2011
• Attack of the Ants! [part one] - Oct 08, 2011
• Skipped a week or two … - Oct 23, 2011