RSSGame of Life - An electronics kit
In 1970, John Conway came up with a 1-player game called Game of Life. The Game of Life is a mathematical game that simulates 'colonies' that grow or die based on how crowded or lonely they are and is known for the way it creates a beautiful organic display out of randomness.
MAKE presents the Game of Life kit, Make one kit and keep it on your desk, or attach multiple kit modules together as shown in the video to create a large display, like a cube. Get one, four or fifty at the Maker Shed store!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jun 11, 2008 08:00 AM
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Posted by: vivi on June 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM |
Why are you guys pushing so much to sell this kit ? It seems there is at least one article each week promoting it. Did you add too many zeros in your order when having the boards made :-) ?
If you're actually interested in the game of life, a very good and extremely fast software to explore this world is : http://golly.sourceforge.net/
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Posted by: Phillip Torrone on June 11, 2008 at 1:40 PM |
@vivi - this is the new updated version, we happy to have it in after a period of not having any in stock. it's a cool kit!
| Posted by: Alex on June 11, 2008 at 2:59 PM |
Isn't it a ZERO player game, rather than a one player game? You don't actually have any interaction with it, other than starting again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life
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Posted by: Collin Cunningham on June 11, 2008 at 10:25 PM |
what, that lil ol' atmega doesn't count? ;)
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