While far from complete, SpritePlacer now has physics. Each sprite can have multiple physics shapes added to it. This allows you to have sprites that aren’t rectangular. You can see an example of this on the left (click to enlarge), the dumbbell shapes each have three physics shapes. Two spheres and a rectangle are sufficient […]
Straight off the code is at https://github.com/chriscamacho/SpritePlacer As its using libGDX its cross platform, however if you want it to work on a Mac or Android device you’ll need to add your own simple platform stub. There is nothing special about this simple level editor but it does boast a rudimentary file selection dialog, which is […]
Having just installed Debian (XFCE) on my “new” SSD (and boy does it fly! AND I get an extra hour out of the battery!) I hit a rather irritating puzzle. Whenever I mounted a USB stick is was mounted without write permissions (rather infuriating as it kind of defeats the purpose of *convenient* portable storage) […]
NB if you’ve landed here from a search, because you have this issue read below about using a usb keyboard… All in all I’m very happy with my Fujitsu Lifebook AH532, it’s got a great little cpu with a gpu (HG4000) that’s got plenty of grunt, does all the OpenGL experimenting I throw at it […]
Here mainly for my own historical notes (but if you happen to drop in here via google – you’re most welcome!) is how I configured my Alps touch pad to do tap clicks, middle button and scrolling etc… First of you’ll need dkms sudo apt-get install dkms dkms is rather handy and will automagically(tm) compile […]
Well I thought it might be the case and from my recent experiences it seems that yet again Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot. With coming so late to the mobile arena (and by mobile I mean tablets etc as well as phones) MS now seem to be wanting to force their desktop users […]
Still no enclosure or firm idea of what I’m putting in it, but a keyboard does look certain! The first power consumption test I did using a 6600mah (3v7 LiPo) is shown with the brown line, because I was running the LCD backlight at 100% and using a conventional laptop hard drive the power circuit […]
Threw this up cause its what I do almost any new platform I explore 😉 I’m in the process of converting my GLES2.0 framework away from GLFW and back to Xlib as I’ve had different issues with different embedded platforms using GLFW, oddly I’ve not seen these issues with my Xlib code… The Allwinner A20 […]
Its been a few week so its been enough time to give me a good handle on the kit and give a fair minded review from my own perspective. The first thing I’m going to talk about is rubbish! actually nothing to do with the end product but essential none the less. I’m sure you’ve […]
Like many people into electronics I’ve always had the hankering to build my own portable system. You will often build a PC from components and very carefully select their pro’s and con’s to meet your specific requirements, This is frequently more difficult with portable system. After finally giving up on getting a working Pandora, I’m […]