Category Archives: Code
FOTB data sets
In honour of FOTB’s speaker announcements, I’ve put together a dataset of all the speakers and sessions over the last 5 years. Do with it as you will, but do let us know if you do! There are no tags … Continue reading
How To Make Your Own Bot for Robot Wars III
The Tournament Create your own fighting robot in AS3 and watch it battle it out in FlashBrighton’s third Robot Wars tournament. It will be held on Tuesday 25th May 2010 at 19:00 BST at The Werks in Hove. The event … Continue reading
Searching hierarchical data (without recursion)
Yesterday, I needed to tie in some native menu items in an AIR application, so after a bit of Googling, I came across the AIR docs, which had a description of how to do exactly what I wanted. However, there … Continue reading
UTC Date (time is relative)
Anyone interested in Dates and passing them between different languages, I had an issue with selecting dates in a Flash UI which uploads them to a data base via a webservice and pulls them back again. Some were coming back … Continue reading
Robotlegs and Signals Talk
‘Lo everyone, Here are the slides from my talk on Tuesday. All the links to the github repos are in the pdf, but I put them below as well for posterity. Enjoy. http://www.robotlegs.org/ http://github.com/tschneidereit/SwiftSuspenders http://github.com/robertpenner/as3-signals http://github.com/richtextformat/RichTextFormat-Classes/tree/master/uk/co/richtextformat/signals/ Owen RL&Signals <–PDF! (Also … Continue reading
AS3Bots – 2nd Tournament Result
Congratulations to Richard Willis – second time winner of FlashBrighton’s Robot Wars Tournament. Video footage of the night is up on Vimeo . You can also run the game from here. (Press Space to start and use the arrow keys … Continue reading
AS3Bots – Designing a Skin for Your Bot
The bots can now be skinned with a still image or an animated movie clip. Follow these tips to have your skin ready for the upcoming robot wars tournament. The bots will look best from a top-down point of view. … Continue reading
#tweetcoding
A few weeks back, during our generative art workshop, we decided to spice things up a bit by asking Flashbrightoners to produce some generative art in 140 characters!! Impossible! You cry, but not so, as we introduced everyone to Grant … Continue reading
Last Night’s Flexo Fun
Well, another successful and packed event at the werks… but enough about the Ruby on Rails coding dojo upstairs, what about FlashBrighton’s flexo? After a slow start we eventually managed to load in some XML. The next hour was spend … Continue reading
AS3Bots – Box2D
Here’s an update on Phase 3 of the Bots project. Direct link to the swf What’s new: Box2D physics engine. Rectangle arena. The bots turn black increasingly when they get hit. The force of … Continue reading