New Grad/Computer Scientist
Toronto, ON
November 10th, 2001
[about to throw out the almanac] The Skyway's jammed. It's gonna take us forever to get there. And this stays here. I didn't invent the time machine to win at gambling; I invented the time machine to travel through time.
— Back to the Future Part II, 1989My first major creation after I started learning Python was an interactive robot I named GreenBot.
Using Processing's Python mode, I was able to make him move around the screen at speeds controlled by the user, have him warp to the other side of the play area (à la Pac-Man), and have customization.
As well, I experimented with adding sound, resulting in the speed changes playing a higher/lower pitch sound when pressed based on the speed as well as a sound for when the style is changed.
This project helped me see the potential in Proccessing.py, prompting my future projects.
Here is the instruction manual I wrote at the time:
Check out GitHub to see the code and download the program if you want to try it for yourself!
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