Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category

My Fantastic Contraptions

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

A collection of solutions for Fantastic Contraption: My Solutions: Tube - a minimal tube crawler. U-Turn - a floppy, crawling chariot. U-Turn (again)) - a simple cart which uses leverage to apply force on the ceiling. Back and Forth - an awful contraption. Back and Forth - a better version which uses many wheels for low ...

Neat Flash Games for Nerds

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

These three games present interesting logic puzzles: Fantastic Contraption - build a machine to get an item into the target zone. Light-bot - provide simple commands to make your robot traverse obstacles (publisher site with annoying, talking banner ads is here). Chronotron - solve puzzles using a time machine.