Blog, page 59
page 59 of 80Continuing through the writing archive.
Boss Dice
Rules for Boss Dice, a two-player San Francisco bar game scored on five-dice poker hands with two rerolls each.
Read postARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Hooking a MaxSonar EZ1 ultrasonic rangefinder to an Arduino, debugging noisy readings, and finding the wiring mistake.
Read postBooray
Rules for Booray, a French-Louisiana trick-taking card game with a five-card draw and ante-and-pot scoring.
Read postArduino Robots
Notes on dusting off an Arduino, bolting an Adafruit motor shield to an old RC car, and getting it driving under code.
Read postBlack or Red
Rules for Black or Red, a card-based drinking game where guessing the next card wrong means you drink.
Read postBeat The Barman
Rules for Beat The Barman, a bar drinking game where you finish your shot before the bartender returns with change.
Read postBarbudi
Rules for Barbudi, a two-player Mexican casino dice game where shooter and fader bet on which doubles come up first.
Read postAces In The Pot
Rules for Aces In The Pot, a two-dice gambling game where 1s feed the pot and 6s pass coins to your neighbour.
Read postinternet robot zombies
A plain-language take on form-spam bots, the botnets that run them, and why people buying the spam keeps it alive.
Read postHow to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC
Short MFC helper that pulls the text of a CListCtrl column header by index using the underlying CHeaderCtrl.
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