{"id":104529,"date":"2016-09-20T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=104529"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:28:27","slug":"watch-these-awesome-gamers-play-real-life-space-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/104529-watch-these-awesome-gamers-play-real-life-space-invaders","title":{"rendered":"Watch: These awesome gamers play real-life Space Invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to take your videogame skills to the real world?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly what Tomer Daniel and his crew of twelve hackers, welders, and coders did when they <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geekcon-prod.herokuapp.com\/projects\/312\" target=\"_blank\">built a Space Invaders game<\/a><\/strong> for GeekCon 2016, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/09\/19\/real-life-space-invaders-with-drones-and-lasers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hackaday<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tomer\u2019s company makes software for coordinating UAV fleets, so it\u2019s not a coincidence that he would have eight DJI Phantom\u2019s onhand and the ability drive them.<\/p>\n<p>The team put together RGB LED matrices, laser sensors, and outfitted each Invader with its own Arduino.<\/p>\n<p>The welders built up a track and cart so that the player would slide back and forth over a twenty meter set of rails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The result is spectacular. Check out the full video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IQ7-QoXTu68?list=PLi5ei2tgLQRdPJflVXK_bshtloiBOQDRM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What videogame would you want to play in real life? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to PlayStation 4 Pro versus PC 4K graphics comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/104205-playstation-4-pro-versus-pc-4k-graphics-comparison.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">PlayStation 4 Pro versus PC 4K graphics comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Gears of War 4 will have co-op splitscreen and full LAN support on PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/104511-gears-of-war-4-will-have-co-op-splitscreen-and-full-lan-support-on-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gears of War 4 will have co-op splitscreen and full LAN support on PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How the Internet Censorship Bill will ruin South Africa\u2019s internet and gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/104477-how-the-internet-censorship-bill-will-ruin-south-africas-internet-and-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How the Internet Censorship Bill will ruin South Africa\u2019s internet and gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the coolest video you will see all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":104533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,22019,14310,22017,183,18249],"class_list":["post-104529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-geekcon","tag-real-life","tag-space-invaders","tag-video","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}