MINERVA: Episodic, Single-Player Half-Life 2
Solanum tuberosum - posted by Cargo Cult on Monday November 7 2011
I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry.
For science?
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2. Hardware
Posted by Sortie at 9:09AM, Monday November 7 2011
Oh, that's cool. What kind of hardware did you use to construct it?
3. This looks like a lunchtime discussion between physics majors run amok
Posted by Pace at 4:44AM, Tuesday November 8 2011
I think we need to zoom in a bit on the voltage scale. If we want to see a correlation. Are we looking for a correlation? I think I see a correlation. Hmm, we need a thermocouple in there too... I'm not sure that sucker's gonna last till spring..
Sortie there's a link to the hardware setup on that page. Such as it is.
http://www.hylobatidae.org/PotatOS/hardware.jpg
5. Light-sensitive potato
Posted by Cargo Cult at 4:06AM, Thursday November 10 2011
I left a bright light pointing at the spud for a while. Voltage has gone up to 0.73V from 0.68V.
Aim was to get it to sprout. Result was discovering a source of limitless clean energy. Oops.
(I suspect the Arduino's analogue-to-digital converter is temperature-dependent, or something.)
Hardware? Arduino Ethernet, micro-SD card, VC0706 TTL serial JPEG camera. Software written by me, based on a crappy Arduino webcam thing I wrote coupled with remnants of the Flickr photoset RSS feed script thingy.
I do hope it starts sprouting.
6. But how do you know it's a girl potato?
Posted by Pace at 7:37AM, Friday November 11 2011
Go on, admit it, you've named the potato haven't you?
7. Well, there's an easy solution.
Posted by chiasaur11 at 11:04PM, Thursday November 17 2011
Don't name test subjects. You might get attached.
8. attached
Posted by Świrek at 9:09AM, Friday November 18 2011
That's what Minerva said :)
Bastard Perseus.
9. Which is a name
Posted by chiasaur11 at 8:34AM, Monday November 21 2011
Thus the whole problem.
Now Durandal, he knew how to handle these things. Of course, even he got sentimental in the end.
Saving humanity for no direct benefit. Honestly.
10. Has anyone ever noticed...
Posted by pox at 5:26AM, Thursday December 15 2011
how much the portal from Minerva....
http://images.wikia.com/half-life/en/images/2/28/Minerva-Metastasis_Scr_19.jpg
...looks like ATLAS from the LHC?
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/lhc_08_01/lhc15.jpg
11. Re: Has anyone ever noticed...
Posted by Sortie at 9:10PM, Thursday December 15 2011
So that's what the Combine was doing under that island. To think such an advanced alien race is yet to discover the grand unified theory of life, the universe, and everything.
12. New photos!
Posted by Świrek at 12:30PM, Friday December 23 2011
Awesome! great atmosphere
(A little offtopic here, but i want to share with this information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=player_embedded )
13. The latest pictures
Posted by chiasaur11 at 7:48AM, Monday January 9 2012
I'm worried.
Adam used a cipher...
it was rot 13. Something isn't right here.
14. *coff*
Posted by fuzz at 8:01PM, Tuesday January 17 2012
Just going to leave this here where it might get noticed...
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/17/hey-valve-whats-going-on-eh/
16. RE: the latest pictures
Posted by db at 10:23AM, Sunday January 29 2012
It's a substitution cipher. Decrypted:
After obtaining the appropriately complex rotor settings necessary for negotiating Milton Keynes' endless roundabouts, a visit to Bletchley Park. Reconstructions of 1940s computing! A world of strange things borrowed from GCH~! A peculiarly ramshackle Victorian mansion surrounded by semi-derelict huts! Secrets everywhere!
17. Re:RE: the latest pictures
Posted by chiasaur11 at 9:22PM, Tuesday January 31 2012
I decrypted it quickly enough. As I said, ROT 13.
That's the worrisome part. When has solving a Foster puzzle been that easy?
18. Re: *coff*
Posted by Pace at 4:43AM, Wednesday February 1 2012
Personally, I'd be willing to settle for an update on our potato. Our Mrs. Potato. (Kori, I've decided, fyi.) Whatever has become of her?
19. Potato update
Posted by Cargo Cult at 10:06AM, Friday February 24 2012
Was insufficiently sprouty, hardware got commandeered for a grandiose timelapse project.
Another potato at the office is splendidly sprouty, if insufficiently instrumented.
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1. Oh Adam, you're such a tease
Posted by Blandford at 7:18AM, Monday November 7 2011
Now get back to working on Ep 3.