ZephyrEye on Tom’s Hardware

Hmm, my blog hit count is going through the roof … This project must be the coolest thing ever, all your base are belong to me!

Oh wait, the stats beg to differ … Aha, the project was featured on Tom’s Hardware!  That makes sense.

I realize there’s not a lot yet – I’m still catching up!  That being said, please feel free to leave comments.  Is it cool?  Is it useful, in paintball? As a paperweight?  Let me know!  And as always, feel free to ask questions in the comments or email me at nelsobra@onid.orst.edu anytime.

For those of you coming from Tom’s Hardware, I realize the image was a bit of a letdown – my blog at the time of writing was a little short on options for them.  I’m jumping ahead of my original posting plan, but for all Tom’s geeks I thought it might be worthwhile to add a small gallery that goes through the setup screen to help understand the project a little better.

Main Screen – The first screen that appears when the ZephyrEye is turned on.

Select a game to play (King of the Hill is the only one programmed in so far)

First page of game setup

Setting up GPS starting and hill locations, starting with Team A’s starting location.

Setting up team B starting location

Setting up GPS coordinates for the hill

At this point, the game setup is complete and the “captain” ZephyrEye broadcasts the game and accepts other players.

When a game is broadcast, another ZephyrEye can find it and join the game on either team.

Picking Team B so there are two sides to this game.

The game is all set up, players have joined, and everything is ready to go! See video for countdown and gameplay screen.

Concept artwork of a hopper with an integrated ZephyrEye

Real screenshot from the ZephyrEye screen, but of a dummy game (real gameplay looks a little different, see videos).