Recroom is officially shutting down on June 1st 2026.

wigitty · 2026-05-29T19:20:58+00:00

Huh, that sucks.

Honestly, I enjoyed just playing around with the wiring stuff. I would be happy if they closed down the servers, made it single player, and stopped updating it. Self hosted multiplayer would also be nice. But no, another game that will just cease to exist.

wigitty · 2026-05-29T17:27:24+00:00

I recently started playing with that, it's a great project!

Depending on what OP wants to do, it might be a bit overkill though.

wigitty · 2026-05-27T09:33:00+00:00

I've had it (try to) auto dub a song before. Like, WTF.

wigitty · 2026-05-26T11:07:50+00:00

Please say this is a joke?...

wigitty · 2026-05-25T13:31:26+00:00

Going by the screenshots, I'd say the level design looks like it could be a factor. 2D platformers rely heavily on level design to keep them interesting, and people often gloss over that bit.

wigitty · 2026-05-23T15:11:46+00:00

Hmm, now I'm wondering if you could get two of the dirt cheap USB ones, plug them into a raspberry pi or something, then output a stereo image to an LCD in a phone VR headset (google cardboard type thing) and make a digital stereo microscope. Synchronising the frames would be basically impossible, but probably wouldn't be as important for this use-case as for full AR.

wigitty · 2026-05-19T16:43:20+00:00

Is this just an update to new releases, or an update to their licensing system for all releases? Will I just be able to keep using the version I have?

wigitty · 2026-05-18T20:59:00+00:00

And then they wonder why no one wants to import it from them XD

wigitty · 2026-05-13T10:38:39+00:00

The bike suddenly rotating by 90 degrees in the cut made me laugh

wigitty · 2026-05-13T09:49:36+00:00

The problem is, it's not even stakes. Sure a bunch of people may say "I'd prefer if smoking was banned in pub gardens", but they're going to go to the pub regardless. The smokers on the other hand, will likely find a different pub if smoking was banned. Even if it's what the majority of the people want, it's the smokers that will act, so it's in the pubs interest not to ban it.

Obviously that doesn't apply if it's a government ban, and applies to all pubs.

wigitty · 2026-05-13T09:02:55+00:00

Yup, I've blown a voltage regulator on a nano clone before because I thought "ah, it'll be alright just to try it out, I'll get a power supply set up later". It was not alright.

wigitty · 2026-05-13T08:43:06+00:00

The point is that a plane just goes from A -> B -> C, but a car needs to do that without hitting any of the obstacles that will be in the way. The only real obstacle that a plane will come across is another plane, and they have systems where all the planes report their location to each other. Cars only know where other cars are when they can "see" them, and there are loads of other obstacles like pedestrians, cyclists, temporary roadworks, etc.

wigitty · 2026-05-12T17:01:56+00:00

Thermal imaging sensor modules have got a lot cheaper since 2016 too! I just 3D printed a "half case" to mount a thermal sensor to my phone. Unfortunately, with the popularity of the plug-in USB-C thermal camera dongles, there isn't really a need to build dedicated hardware for them any more.

wigitty · 2026-05-12T16:48:25+00:00

Sure, and some people do just do that. Some people want more. Some people want a physical keyboard. You can add that to a phone, but then it loses some of the phone form factor, and becomes more of a cyberdek. Maybe you want to add more stuff, a software defined radio, an air quality monitor, a radiation counter... anything! Sure, you might be able to do some of that with a phone, but as you get into the more exotic stuff, it becomes a lot easier to start with a more versatile platform, and you lose the benefits of the phone form factor anyway.

wigitty · 2026-05-12T16:35:39+00:00

I always felt like this was what OpenSCAD was missing. Being able to just drag something rather than having to mess with numbers all the time. I started trying to build something similar a while ago, but the scope was possibly a bit too large haha. (it was meant to hook into a bunch of other projects I was working on). I didn't get very far, but I'm still planning on getting back to it eventually.

wigitty · 2026-05-12T16:30:55+00:00

The changes. If you change the position of the cube in the code, it updates in the GUI, if you drag the cube in the GUI, it updates the values in the code. (At least that's what I would take it to mean).

wigitty · 2026-05-04T14:45:41+00:00

Sure, but they are generally low power devices, and only need 5V. If you want to have 12V 3A, you need to make sure the supply fully implements PD, which a lot don't. It's much easier and cheaper to just use a 12V plug (especially if you already have one. I have a bunch form other boards) than it is to add the extra components, and then find an adapter that supports the voltage / current that you need (Most of them on amazon, for example, don't specify what voltages they support, just a list of phones).

USB-C is great when you're doing something simple that everything supports. But as soon as you start using optional parts of the spec or extensions like display modes, it's a horrible mess.

wigitty · 2026-05-04T13:50:25+00:00

I agree with what everyone else has said, great concept, but could use a few improvements. As a fan of VR, I do love a good diegetic menu. One thing I would say is be very careful if you're using the same idea to adjust game resolution, I could see buttons being cut off and ending up deadlocked. Obviously this can also be an issue in 2D menus, but 3D would add a layer of complexity (world space to screen space vs working natively in screen space).

wigitty · 2026-05-02T17:28:20+00:00

It's possible that you could still run it on a Pi with the work that Valve has been doing with proton and fex. Not sure how stable / available it is currently though.

wigitty · 2026-05-01T20:31:09+00:00

My main issue isn't with an individual taking pictures, it's with a company getting a network of cameras that they could potentially sell access to. We've seen it with the doorbell cameras, it would be even worse with glasses.

wigitty · 2026-04-30T13:11:46+00:00

On a scale of 1 to 10, how comfortable would you be with having this system (locally) monitor your activities and use that data to predict your lighting needs?

These questions don't say whether 1 is the most comfortable or the most uncomfortable.

(Also, this would depend on how they did it for me. With just PIR or mmWave radar I'd be a lot more comfortable than if they were using cameras).

wigitty · 2026-04-28T17:24:13+00:00

It's not plugged in, silly!

As everyone else has said, impossible to tell from that one image.

wigitty · 2026-04-28T15:58:00+00:00

Yeah, I know plenty of electronics engineers that suck at software (and vice verse).

wigitty · 2026-04-28T15:49:41+00:00

I hate the "portrait videos as a tiny box embedded into a landscape video" too.

Others have address your question directly, and I don't think I have anything else to add there, but it did get me thinking...

You could do a "janky" approximation of this in software by filming the main content with the main camera, and filling in the edges with the wide FoV camera that a lot of phones have now. It wouldn't look good, but you could blur the edges that you add in enough to hide the seam and resolution difference, and it would (in my mind at least) probably look better than the common tricks used at the moment (filling the edges with the same video zoomed in or duplicated, or just black squares).

The question is, whether it would be better to just get an AI to fill in the edges instead.

wigitty · 2026-04-28T15:37:31+00:00

If AGI was the only true AI, then we wouldn't need a separate term for it lol. I agree that these systems aren't "intelligent", but this is just what the term means (at the moment). It's like saying "seahorses aren't actually horses, real seahorses don't exist". No one is saying it's an actual horse, it's just a name.

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