Tagged “games”

1. In car Jenga
   • 2010 July 18
   • games,
   • travel,
   • cars

   I figured out that while traveling in a car, the driver of the car gets a unique opportunity to play a Jenga like game. If they grab a handful of potato chips, the goal is to get them out one by one by using their mouth. They lose the game if they (1) crash the car, (2) spill any chips, or (3) jamm the entire fistful in their mouth at once.

2. Repairing Wii nunchuk
   • 2010 January 25
   • technology,
   • games,
   • reverse_engineering,
   • computers,
   • embedded_computing

   Our Wii nunchuk broke. After disassembly, it was obvious that two of the wires in the connector end had broken off. I immediately did a search on the internet for information, and found useful diagrams at wiire.org. The problem I had was that the wire colors I had did not match the colors that they had posted. After disassembling both the controller and the connector, I mapped out the appropriate colors for my particular controller. If you have to repair your Wii Nunchuk, I suggest that you do the same to ensure that the wires are mapped to the correct pins. In particular, on the Wiire site, the red wire was connected to the +3V pin. However, on my controller, the red wire was connected to the clock line.

   Wiimote Bus Pins (6-pin proprietary connector on Wiimote)

   Looking into Wiimote (or at the exposed pins on the nunchuk connector):

   `

   ---

   | 1 3 5 | | 2 4 6 | |---| `

   * 1 (Red wire) - +3V - (Brown on my system)

   * 2 (Yellow wire) - Clk (Blue on mine)

   * 3 (Red wire) - Attachment detection? (No connection on mine)

   * 4 (No wire) - Unknown (unconnected at Nunchuk connector) (No connection)

   * 5 (Green wire) - Data - (Red on mine)

   * 6 (White wire) - GND - (Yellow on mine)

   * The shield wire (white on mine) was soldered to the metal housing.

   Wiimote Bus Pins (linear connector on Nunchuk PCB)

   . _ _ _ _ _ _ 1|_|_|_|_|_|_|6

   * 1 (Red wire) - +3V - (Brown on mine)

   * 2 (no wire) - N/C

   * 3 (Yellow wire) - Clk - (Blue on mine)

   * 4 (Green wire) - Data - (Red on mine)

   * 5 (White wire) - GND - (Yellow on mine)

   * 6 (Black wire) - Shield (GND) - (White on mine)

   Note that the +3v was labeled on the controller board, and was the pin closest to the cable. Another way over verifying this is to note that pin 2 has no wire going to it.

3. Close Range
   • 2009 April 08
   • fun,
   • games

   Looking for a bloody, violent video game? Don't want to waste time running around, aiming, and avoiding being shot? Try Close Range.

   It's just like Doom, but without the running, aiming, and avoiding of being shot.

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