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Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

upbeat.linux — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:07:49 EST

this has probably been over done as a senior project, but here's one with terrific AI:

[cese.msoe.edu]

upbeat.linux

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

Corehop — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:52:47 EST

Eh, there's one of those up here at the University of Illinois. Its in one of those rooms where people pretend they're doing serious science stuff, when in reality they're just thinking up incredibly involved ways to be lazier.

Corehop

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

mainlinx — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:27:55 EST

@dna:

would you prefer them to be rednecks?

mainlinx

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

yougottabekidding — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:39:04 EST

@Captain Angry: Fail? Is that what your school said to you to allow you to play fooseball everyday? Regardless of how successful you could potentially be in your life, if you're playing fooseball that often, you may need to re-evaluate your life, or at least find something other that fooseball to play to break up the monotony.

As for the robot fooseball player, I must say that it's not a bad idea if only the speed, AI, and reaction time of the movements can be improved upon to challenge at least the casual player, if not a professional player such as Captain Angry here. This would be cool if applied to other two player table games, both for practice and for entertainment. I could see this being fun for a billards table, and could potentially be easier and more successful to apply since speed and response time is not an issue and the computer would have time to analyze the shots. Of course, the AI would have to be programmed to not be so perfect that the player would never have a chance. Hurray for forward, if not, different thinking.

yougottabekidding

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

MadModderX — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:42:34 EST

@RockLobsterNet: that was so bad and funny.
I think this is rather neat thing to do. Impressive for what they had.

MadModderX

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

RockLobsterNet — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:18:11 EST

@Azureice55: Even if we are supposedly at 30% and you then filter our the antisocial guys, one thing still remains: "the girls at Tech are like the parking spaces-- they're all either taken or handicapped."

RockLobsterNet

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

EvilSnowMan — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:09:53 EST

It's like playing mentally undeveloped children... I guess that makes it perfect for a dorm room...

EvilSnowMan

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

cgiddings — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:52:09 EST

I might just fly out to check this thing out... :-) AWESOME!!!

cgiddings

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

Captain Angry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:34:05 EST

If the computer didn't suck at fooseball, it might actually be worthwhile. It would be cool if it could stop any shots that weren't taken directly at it.

As someone who playes fooseball almost every day at work, i say FAIL.

Captain Angry

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

bmwfanatic — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:24:03 EST

@Azureice55: Yes, but by the time you filter out the anti-social women the ratio goes right back down. BTW, I got out in '97, and they swore we were at 30% back then too.

bmwfanatic

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

Neceros — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:08:42 EST

Yeah, that was just pitiful.

Neceros

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

sandro — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:23:13 EST

lame, both of them play like sissies...

sandro

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

jumpyfroggy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:09:47 EST

Pretty cool, but can it shoot a rollover? Even at 60fps, it won't be able to stop a decent player. You'd need something more like 200fps, with a randomized moving defensive line.

jumpyfroggy

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

Bodypainter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:41:34 EST

INCREDIBLE! defenetly a market niche ;-)

Bodypainter

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

kingshrimp — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:30:45 EST

germans did like 4 years ago: [translate.google.com]

kingshrimp

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

TJ — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:38:15 EST

@vicsells:

You should ring him up. I'm sure he's looking for human contact by now.

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

vicsells — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:32:58 EST

@dna: lol.

Oh man, this kid stinks at foosball. I would own him

vicsells

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

Atelier — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:31:00 EST

Really very cool. I hope they get some decent funding and make some money with the idea. Nice work.

Atelier

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

electrikecho — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:54:02 EST

Finally, a foosball opponent I could actually beat.

electrikecho

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

Azureice55 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:40:24 EST

@DaveExile: Actually we're doing quite well at 30%. When you factor out the true anti-social guys (the ones that sit in their room and play WoW all the time, not guys who do cool stuff like this), it's not bad.

Azureice55

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

tomaartist — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:07:23 EST

for the lonely guy on your x-mas list

tomaartist

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

dna — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:40:46 EST

Why are the computer players black? I smell RACISM!!!

dna

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

twoeightnine — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:33:53 EST

But how does it shotgun a beer when it gets skunked?

twoeightnine

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

AntisocialYellowJacket — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:10:36 EST

@DaveExile: We have a ratio of, last I checked... 32% females to 68% males... up 2 percent from last year... however, it seems even worse than that at times since some of those females don't really look like females... uuggghhh

AntisocialYellowJacket

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

TJ — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:47:32 EST

Despite the obvious anti-social requirement, that's extremely impressive.

(Gets back to work on Autonomous Life System)

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

xaflatoonx — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:43:51 EST

lol @ WEAK_PIG

that was Funny... lol

xaflatoonx

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

DaveExile — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:38:17 EST

I hear Georgia Tech has a rather profound shortage of women.

DaveExile

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

weak_pig — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:31:46 EST

i could play a game of this without a million baby squirrels screaming their lungs out.

weak_pig

Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table

kumuasata — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:26:44 EST

That's all types of awesome.

kumuasata