Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

beacon_dave — Fri, 02 May 2025 09:20:28 GMT

uh-oh, I've appear to have encountered a glitch with the cryptex / algorithm of the four ciphers Ray...

Reducing BDTH to numbers results in 2384 and not 2584 (page 390).

The park name is BDTH6159 and not BDTH6154 (page 390) (or BOTH6159 page 474)

I think the algorithm of the four ciphers was perhaps supposed to be:

add 4
subtract 4
sum 1st and 2nd
subtract 4th from 3rd

but that only works if you use combinations:

6159/6154 and 2384/2584 (valid)
6159/6154 and 2584 (invalid)
6159/6154 and 2384 (valid)
6154 and 2384/2584 (invalid)

Hey... where did that big dark-red curtain just appear from...

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

tim3in — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 04:11:42 GMT

I have a project Idea for this Episode "Where is Tommy?" and I am working on it. The project will tell what was Tommy's last activity before he disappeared. ;-). The project will be created using Nicla and neuton.ai.

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

DAB — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:03:11 GMT

I like it, a fun way to start.

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

beacon_dave — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:29:34 GMT

Venice Beach, now that's a name I recognise from dance class.

Perhaps Tommy went back to 1938 for a bit of a boogie at the beach.

Venice Beach Swing Dancers ("LA Swing" / Bal-Swing / Shag) (September, 1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uEbgpvxjfY

For a while now I've been interested by using an Arduino for music beat detection to help with dance coordination.

Damian Peckett appears to have done some experimentation in this area:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170617105835/http://damian.pecke.tt:80/beat-detection-on-the-arduino

which looks like it could be a starting point. Detect the beat, detect the motion and use it to give some form of haptic feedback to help correct the error.

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

furio — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 14:23:11 GMT

Thanks to Tariq Ahmad ([mention:44fa45702fda4d95b457f69505107f36:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]) finally I got my Nicla Sense ME board! Here you can find a few pictures of the unboxing. Guys this board is so tiny! It's super small and it weighs just 2.1 grams. Can't wait to start working on it. I'll be working on a project inspired by the first episode Tales for Makers - Where is Tommy?, written by [mention:2136c4649d3b47f78653b7e97ac61f69:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] for the next Make a Better World with Arduino challenge. See you soon!

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

javagoza — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:55:44 GMT

Ray made a small mistake while counting, accidentally missing a 1 in his counting sequence. He had screwed up... he was slow to realize his mistake. He yelled, damn it! The sequence was 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34

RE: Tales for Makers Episode 1 - Where is Tommy?

balearicdynamics — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:35:25 GMT

One of this story's first projects will be presented during the next webinar on Nicla Sense ME. Stay in touch!

community.element14.com/.../1592