TreadGaming Orbiting Video

I made a 3D deisgn of my PCB board in Blender 2.71, and this is how it turned out:

Fun TreadGaming Intro

I used fiverr.com way back and got someone to do some talking to a ridiculous script I made. I just now added sound effects and music to it, and this is how it turned out:

TreadGaming Marketing Image

Since I'm sending a few emails to a few news sites, I created an image that I think sums this project up nicely. I need more, but I think it's a great starting point. Feel free to use this (or any other image) to show of my project.

Possibility to Subscribe to a Mailinglist

I added a quick "Subscribe" possibility on here to the right. It's meant for me to see the interest in this project, and the subscribers will know things before others. I will not give away the emails to anyone, because I value them more than that. It will also be handy to use to inform you guys when the crowdfounding will start, so you will know it before everybody else to be able to get the "early bird" deal.

I'm using MailChimp, where limit is currently 2000 subscribers. Shouldn't be a problem I think...

Also, you can unsubscribe anytime you want. How to do that should be in the email you get for subscribing.

TreadGaming Firmware Flashing Utility

I thought I just post some screenshots of the simple tool that was created to ease flashing a new firmware. Screenshots are from Ubuntu, but is the same in Windows and on Mac OS too. This is not by any means the final version, I just wanted to put this out there.

Starting up screen. 

Connected. Now selecting the firmware...

Firmware is selected. Time to flash it...

Firmware flashing completed!

Red LED Indicating Connected Wii Nunchucks

I'm always trying to figure out smart ways of using what I got. And I just added a neat indication of how many Wii Nunchucks are connected. And, I'm doing this by blinking the red LED. It will blink one time quickly when one Nunchuck is disconnected, and blink two times quickly if both are disconnected.

Quite neat and not so intrusive. Especially useful when in use and all of a sudden one Nunchuck might not work or if there is some other odd things going on. If the red LED blinks you can see that a Nunchuck is disconnected. The device shouldn't send any data for that Nunchuck if it is disconnected now though, so that shouldn't be a problem either.

TreadGaming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim GamePlay

A new video is up showing me walking about in the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in a meadow type of area. Quite relaxing and enjoyable. Feels totally different when you actually have to move your legs to move around for sure. I need to remove the "stamina" bar for an even better experience, because I can run much longer before having to rest than the guy in the game... Anyway, this game uses a "press and hold" type of button to run. And one can clearly see it working just fine here. And all other interactions works as well, making this game totally playable.



What's good about testing different games like this is that I can tweak and add functionality to the firmware to support it if needed. This game is quite suiting for my project too as there are so huge areas to explore.