Bomb Defuse Simulator 2013: a Head-Tracking Tech Demo 35
New submitter Johnny G. Mills writes "During a gamejam (an event to quickly develop and build an interesting game), two members of Sassybot Studio used a projector, Microsoft Kinect, and two moving boxes to create a simulator for defusing a bomb. They used me as a test subject, and thought Slashdot would enjoy this convergence of tech and gaming. 'The wires generated in Bomb Defuse Simulator 2013 are created procedurally to provide the player with a random challenge each time the game is played. ... The controls in the game are split up into physical input and Xbox controller input. With physical input the player moves around the bomb to see what is happening. This is literally done by walking around the real environment ... In our case we projected onto cardboard boxes to prove the concept. In theory this concept can be applied to larger and more unconventional objects. Doing so will challenge the game designer with utilizing the real space in order to create a game in virtual space.'"
now just wait (Score:5, Funny)
slight difference (Score:1)
Beating a polygraph is a lie.
Beating a bomb is life.
(And you never know when you're going to be in a blockbuster movie; that's how the heroes learned to defuse, I suspect.)
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Sounds like a blast! (Score:5, Funny)
Who uses wires in bombs? (Score:3)
That is soooo yesterday and might get you shot if you carry it around! http://hackaday.com/2008/09/19/boston-led-sweatshirt-arrestee-interviewed/ [hackaday.com]
Modern bombs use wireless tech and there is nothing to cut! Instead you have to figure out how to exactly fold and insert a piece of tin-foil.
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Modern bombs use wireless tech and there is nothing to cut!
I've never heard of wireless bomb detonators. You do realize that there is some substantial energy to be delivered into the detonator? It's not just a signal, the wires form a power circuit.
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And the second one with a broken satire-detector.
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Well, yes. I though it was completely obvious how stupid it would be to attach a timer wireless to a detonator (because that means the detonator will be several orders of magnitude more complex than the plain timer), but apparently many people without even the slightest clue of how these things work make themselves even more clueless because they think they have a clue. Dunning-Kruger effect at work. Explains a lot.
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It is possible to make a totally wireless chemical detonator by using something like, for example, gelatin-coated sodium metal in hydrogen peroxide (+ an appropriately heat-sensitive primary explosive), or possibly some other kind of coated metal + picric acid. I don't think it's recommended except in circumstances where it would be impossible to use a wired detonator --- the exact detonation time would be quite unpredictable.
What is old is new again (Score:2)
Walkthru (Spoilers!) (Score:2)
It's always the red wire.
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Maybe if you had non-metallic scissors, but with metal ones, that would almost guarantee a detonation.
Short-circuited circuits usually don't work, regardless of whether the power load is a light bulb or a bridge wire in the detonator.
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No, because not all wires are functional. Some of tem are 'sabotage' wires which make the bomb explode instantly if cut. At least that's how alarm systems work, only instead of cutting the correct wire out of 5, you have to guess the correct 5 out of 40.
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Moron (Score:1)
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You're a moron.
Who's a moron?
So... which one to cut? (Score:2)
Pop quiz, hotshot (Score:2)
There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
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shoot the hostage, duh.
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You know, that was a great thing about James Cameron’s Abyss. Bud, the hero, is in the dark and needs to cut the red wire but all of the wire are white due to the green chem light that he is using.
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Yeah, that is one of my favorite examples of playing with the Wire Dilemma [tvtropes.org] trope, too. Though the Castle episode was fun, too. "Well, one of them had to be the right one."
IS it realistic enough (Score:2)
the Boston version? (Score:2)
Which is to say, is there a "LiteBrite" mode?