toweltornado

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Towel Tornado - The Towel Waving Game

Towel Tornado is a game for Sauna Masters (Aufguss) where you use a towel to blow the sauna hats off three test dummies in a sauna. It's a fun spin on the art of waving a towel where technique, power, stamina, and a bit of luck all contribute to success.

Check it out in action in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVP7yY2LHeM

Requirements

• A computer (Mac, Windows, Linux) to run the game software
• USB Hub
• Screen
• Three Anemometers (recommended: Habotest Digital Anemometer HT625B USB, other types may work as well)
• Structure to hold the anemometers

Setup Instructions

• Build a structure to hold the three anemometers, spaced 60 cm apart, and positioned approximately 130 cm above the ground.
• Connect the anemometers with USB cables to a USB hub.
• Connect the USB hub to a computer running the Towel Tornado application.
• Connect the computer to a screen positioned behind the anemometers.
• Open a web browser and navigate to the URL provided by the Towel Tornado application when you started it (likely http://localhost:8080/). Display the game view in full-screen kiosk mode (Mac: fn+F and Shift+Cmd+F).
• Use another browser tab or device to control the game at http://localhost:8080/admin.html. You can control the game from the computer or a phone/tablet.
• Turn on the anemometers one at a time, starting with the left-most one. This will ensure they register in the correct order, and you will see each anemometer reported in the console of Towel Tornado (which runs from the command line).
• On the Habotest Digital Anemometer HT625B, enable the USB function by holding the "H" button for a few seconds. After about 20 minutes, the anemometers will turn off automatically.

Notes

• The game hi-score is saved into a json file in the current directory. If you want to run a new session, simply delete or rename this file.

Software

In this repo you will find the software for the Towel Tornado cross platform application. It's written in the awesome language, Go-lang (Google language). You are welcome to improve the software. It's licensed under MIT License.

In the binaries/ folder you will find downloadable executables in the zip-files. Run them from the Command window / Terminal on your particular system. The UI is found in a web browser when the application is started.

Background

The game is developed voluntarily by Kasper Skårhøj for Gusmesterforeningen (Sauna Master Association) in Denmark. Therefore the logo of Gusmesterforeningen is integrated in the graphics.

Development Notes

Todo

• Issue: Registering a time of 0.00 as well as 60.0 seconds has been seen - felt like a bug that had to be fixed.
• Would be nice to have alternative ways to register the anemometers
• Additional game ideas:
  • Tetris with Kerkes sauna stones - using the wind data to rotate left / right
  • The classic Hammer Amusement Machine

Usage on a Raspberry Pi notes (slightly internal)

Compile and upload (no USB support, 32 bit and 64 bit): env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build . && scp toweltornado scp://pi@192.168.11.23

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/toweltornado.service

[Unit] Description=Towel Tornado

[Service] ExecStart=/home/pi/toweltornado Restart=always User=pi Group=pi WorkingDirectory=/home/pi

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable toweltornado.service sudo systemctl restart toweltornado.service sudo systemctl status toweltornado.service journalctl -u toweltornado.service -f

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http://192.168.11.23:8031/

Changes to Media Player .23:

• Has toweltornado on it

• Has toweltornado.service running

• Has 'sudo systemctl disable piplayer.service'

• Has browser kiosk on start-up: sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/display.desktop

  [Desktop Entry] Name=Chrome Exec=chromium-browser --app=http://192.168.11.23:8031 --kiosk --app-shell-hosted

• sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Added xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms