Rose and I are still playing low-tech Wordle from time to time. She came rather close to defeating me yesterday: her word was ‘Hydra’. Very slippery. Took me quite a while to kill that one.
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Low-tech Wordle
Rose and I have taken to doing collaborative Wordle after dinner. As we finish off our glasses of wine, we pass the iPad to and fro, taking turns to fill out the next line.
The only trouble is that this enjoyable activity is rather short-lived; once you’ve done today’s puzzle, there isn’t another one, and you don’t end up with very many lines each!
So yesterday we got out some paper and took it in turns to pick a word for the other person to solve, which I can recommend as a fun variation.
Of course, I later remembered that my friend Richard was experimenting with this some months ago.
Note: in the original version of this post, I had accidentally spelled it as ‘Worldle’, which explains some of the comments below!
Retro Space Invaders
I think this is wonderful. Today I got to play with Gareth Bailey’s Space Invaders game – a quick hack, he claims, which he put together yesterday.
This uses an oscilloscope as an X-Y plotter to draw the graphics, harking back to the earliest days of computer displays. But historically, displays like this would usually have been driven by a mainframe, where as Gareth’s is driven by a Raspberry Pi.
And where do you get a couple of nice analog outputs from a Raspberry Pi? Why, from the left and right channels of the audio, of course….
Apologies for the quality of the video, but I thought this was worth capturing despite the challenging environment!
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