Thursday, 31 July 2025

Coding a 2 player arcade game in 2 days.

Coding a 2 player arcade game in 2 days.
During some lessons, my friend and I got so bored that we created a variant of Tic Tac Toe. The largest issue with tic-tac-toe is that it is too easy to not have a winner. There are 3 outcomes to any game: draw, nought win, or crosses win. Unless you are playing a sped-up version, where each player …

Monday, 21 July 2025

Making an air powered cannon

Making an air powered cannon
I want to shoot a projectile fast. That has been my main aim for years: to track the speed of a projectile that I shot, and calculate a speed of over 100mph. Unfortunately, as I live in the UK, I cannot do this with gunpowder, and using butane or gaseous propellant still counts as a firearm after th…