Forget the Olympics: Lego and Twitter Power New Digital Games - smiththeyet

The London 2012 Olympic Games may be just around the corner, merely this year also marks the start of Digilympics, a recently interactive Arduino-powered "sport" that you posterior get up to her neck with via Twitter, entirely without having to leave your couch.

Digilympics, a two-week-farseeing event created by hardware hacker Sam Cox, features teams from the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Japanese Archipelago. However, the teams are not made up of your usual athletes; instead, they're actually teams of Lego minifigures, all of which are trying to sprint along a particularly-made running play cut through.

For each one Lego minifigure represents nonpareil of the participating nations, and to make one move you just have to ship a tweet to that athletes' Twitter account to show your support. An Arduino board is programmed to scan Chitter for some new relevant @-replies that mention the teams. The tweets trigger a signaling to spin motors, which move the teams forward down the track.

An infrared beam set across the finishing line ready to detects the succeeder, at which point the game resets and the Lego athletes dumbfound ready to run again. A tally is being kept noting how umpteen times to each one competing nation wins a hasten, as at the end of the two weeks one nation will be awarded the Digilympics Gold Medal.

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If Sam's name sounds familiar, we have featured some of his other hacks Here on GeekTech in the past.

A 24-hour live stream of the unforgiving Lego-Chitter action can Be viewed along the projects website. So wherefore non fire up your Chirrup guest of choice and pay off tweeting your support.

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