William Viker

No longer working at Opera Software

Hackathon winners!

Thursday, December 6, 2007 2:22:46 PM

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Woooo! Me and quai won this years Hackaton awards! smile



With..this! bigsmile Built it in two days with some secret opera stuff (sorry, cant tell!), javascript and some c-code. Assembled the whole car from a kit, and it's controllable in amusing ways ;D

Moveable camera up/down/sideways, moveable lights (following the camera position?), steering left/right, speed reverse/forward ..in any speed! etc.

As I said, I can't mention the details, but its awesome! ;D



Aaaand.. the original project was only a controllable camera without the car.. smile



EDIT: HEY! TheAtilla helped us out alot! Thanks man! smile

Office Door LabelDamn! I bought a house! :)

Comments

Anton TsigularovTheAtilla Thursday, December 6, 2007 2:41:58 PM

PWNAGE! Great work guys smile

Vetle Roeimvetler Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:07:54 PM

Indeed, they pretty much outclassed everyone else.

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:39:19 PM

So cool it hurts.

Anton TsigularovTheAtilla Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:47:48 PM

Opera powered *nod*. That's how we are. Cool, painfully cool!

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:57:34 PM

I think the (empty?) Red Bull bottles really tops it off. p

William Vikerwillosof Thursday, December 6, 2007 5:16:26 PM

haha ;D i brought 10 redbull-cans and replaced the stuff in the mini-bar in the hotel-room! ;D

...I also think we were the only ones that had a soldering iron by our window, along with other similar stuff and excessive amounts of tools ;D

Anton TsigularovTheAtilla Thursday, December 6, 2007 5:40:45 PM

Yeah - that's cool: Beer bottle next to the car (work in progress?), red-bulls next to the award - it all fits perfectly. I'm sure it's part of willo's diabolical plan to show off with the reward , haha.

Daniel Goldmandanigoldman Thursday, December 6, 2007 7:25:09 PM

Cool!

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, December 7, 2007 7:08:14 AM

We demand a video demonstration!! smile

Eirik Stavemeiriks Friday, December 7, 2007 7:33:04 AM

We sure do demand a video demonstration, bring it! smile

serious Friday, December 7, 2007 7:53:46 AM

*supporting wish for video*

Mathieu 'p01' HENRIp01 Friday, December 7, 2007 10:27:45 AM

Kudos! Really cool entry.
IMO only 2 other entries had a real WOW! effect. Yours was : OMGBBQ!

Arve Bersvendsenvirtuelvis Friday, December 7, 2007 12:28:29 PM

As a jury member, I can only say that the entire jury were totally flabbergasted by your entry.

(And the fact that you seem to have continued hacking between being evaluated by the jury, and presenting it in the morning session)

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, December 7, 2007 2:06:32 PM

LOL?? They did?! Haha!

FataL Friday, December 7, 2007 4:54:44 PM

Cool!

Now bring us a video! smile

Martin RauscherHades32 Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:05:28 PM

Now that this entry is more than 1,5 years old, can you tell us the Opera secret?

William Vikerwillosof Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:35:46 AM

I'll tell you the June 16th ;-)

Martin RauscherHades32 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:48:41 PM

LOL, you REALLY installed Opera (Unite) on that RC Car? bigsmile

Anton TsigularovTheAtilla Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:21:53 AM

On ANY device, remember:)

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:10:03 PM

"On ANY device, remember" SO true

Where is the video +1

tomassplatch Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:49:47 AM

Way too cool! Now that unite is out, will you write more about what you actually did?

William Vikerwillosof Wednesday, July 1, 2009 7:42:50 PM

I will. Just have to find the time to do it :-)

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:30:14 PM

Originally posted by willosof:

I will.


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Ankuryadavankur Monday, March 8, 2010 8:46:14 AM

Now that you are leaving, maybe you can find some time to write about what you did :-)

William Vikerwillosof Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:57:29 PM

We used both opera unite and a dll for javascript extensions to acomplish this. Controls for moving camera, turning left/right, etc were done with javascript, and if I don't remember it wrong, the webcam picture was also updated through javascript. 
<img src="data:image/png;base64,.....">
(probably getting the picture from v4l through usb)

etc :-)

Sooo.. Everything is pretty straight forward. Between the DLL/JSExt, it was serial communication to control the chip that then again had the in/outputs to control the car. Today you can think about it as an ordinary arduino project. We didn't use a premanufactured board, though. Only a atmel-chip and some Quai-electroncs-kungfu.


I'm probably mixing up the first and the second (bigger) version of the car, but hey. The basic concept is the same on both of them.


Questions? smile

Martin RauscherHades32 Sunday, October 7, 2012 6:45:34 PM

The JS extensions is probably not something I can do on a normal Opera installation?

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