Nice! An obvious way of expanding this would be to add rotation to the ball. You could then make it spin using the friction of the paddle, allowing some insane shots. I've got all the physics stuff lying around if you'd like to see some examples.

Cool thanks!

Hello folks, I was wondering if anyone here have bindings for SDL2 that are newer that the preinstalled ones? Alternatively, is there a good tool for translating the latest to FB? I would like to contribute to the community by making these, but I'm not entirely sure how to do it, other than manually...

@badidea, Here I have changed the image a bit and shown it on the left with 1 pixel per dot and on the right with small circle per dot. The problem with all rotations is leaving blank pixels that have to be filled in some way. https://i.postimg.cc/8kn5Wc4v/ambo2.png What rotation algorithm are you ...

Just stop yourselves right there guys. You are ruining a perfectly nice project with your pointless bickering. Start coding instead, either in this thread or elsewhere, it doesn't matter.

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h4tt3n wrote:I don't know if this would be of any help, but ...

Sounds interesting. No battle tanks in your code I suppose?

No, as mentioned this wold probably only be useful if we stick to the space battle type game.

I don't know if this would be of any help, but I have spent quite a bit of time developing a physics engine specially for 2D space type games. It has commands for creating planets, asteroid belts and entire solar systems with complex orbits, deriving orbit data from state vectors, drawing orbits on ...

Here is the "Fix your timestep" game loop tutorial by Glemm Fiedler, converted to FreeBASIC. Cheers, Mike Part 1: Fixed delta time '' '' Glenn Fiedler game loop tutorial '' Code sample # 1 '' http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/ '' Fixed delta time 'double t = 0.0; 'dou...

Hello folks, First post in a looong time. I've been tampering with a game loop that treats framerate a bit as a damped spring or a constraint. As much cpu time as possible is freed with sleep. By setting the "stiffness" c_sleep to a near 1.0 value, it reaches an equilibrium faster, but you...

Hello again, I've been looking into things and have decided on the Arduino. I have ordered an Arduino Uno and Mega and some extra shields for sensor input and motor control. The programming ide is very straight forward to use for anyone with basic programming skills, and when the mailman arrives I'l...

Thanks everyone for your replies, you've given me some tracks to follow.

So, I'd like to know if anyone here have any practical experience with programming as a teaching tool? No, my thoughts: If I look at a list of physics topics like on http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class , I see some topics where code could be used to visualise concepts. Mostly mechanics (motion, a...

Apart from the hardware, do you have practical (automation) ideas that the students would interest? Yes. Most of it is pretty straight-forward. For the input part, I want to measure if a certain switch is on or off. I'd also like to measure frequency / rotations per second when comparing different ...

Do you know of an economic, software controllable piece of hardware that will allow us to flip a series of pins on/off or do measurements on them? Yes, have a look at Arduino, or any of the many Clones: "Open Source HW", as well as plenty possible add on Modules (for many specific tasks, ...

If I am not mistaken, what I am taking away from this discussion so far is that my students won't be able to solder up a piece of hardware by themselves that will allow them to do simple data collection and robot control from a modern PC? Well do they need to solder? It is common now to use a solde...