{"id":2670,"date":"2013-06-03T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:53:06","slug":"sony-lego-team-up-to-create-programmable-interactive-lego-bricks-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/sony-lego-team-up-to-create-programmable-interactive-lego-bricks-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony, Lego team up to create programmable, interactive Lego bricks | Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2013\/06\/sony-lego-team-up-to-create-programmable-interactive-lego-bricks\/\">ARS Technica<\/a><br \/>\nBy: Kyle Orland<br \/>\nJune 3, 2013<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPz2iwY9mWo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>A newly revealed partnership seeks to bring the interactivity of Sony&#8217;s video games to the world of Lego&#8217;s physical bricks and characters. At a 25th anniversary open house for Sony&#8217;s Computer Science Laboratories in Japan, the companies showed off Toy Alive, a prototype project that uses simple Lego bricks with embedded microchips that can be controlled with a PC or a DualShock gamepad.<\/p>\n<p>The Toy Alive team is currently showing off a tiny, remote-controlled platform that can be controlled with a DualShock gamepad to play a chase game monitored by a webcam and computer software. Other bricks use translucent red plastic and built-in, computer-controlled LEDs to make a Lego house look like it&#8217;s on fire or to activate an actuator that causes Lego models to explode into pieces. The team is even experimenting with tiny wireless cameras that can give a minifig-eye view of a scene for a bit of augmented reality.<\/p>\n<p>Lego has long supported interactivity in its toys through its Mindstorms line of robotics aimed at programmers and students. But with Toy Alive, the team is trying to &#8220;keep the pieces small and simple so that children can use them with other toys,&#8221; according to associate researcher Alexis Andre, who has been working on the project for about a year. &#8220;It&#8217;s a mixture of video games and toys, and how do you make toys more interactive? How do you provide a platform for the children to do whatever they want to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all still in the prototype phase for now, and it looks like any products to come out of this effort are still at least a few years away from your local toy shop. In the meantime, there&#8217;s always the other merger of Lego and video game technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: ARS Technica By: Kyle Orland June 3, 2013 A newly revealed partnership seeks to bring the interactivity of Sony&#8217;s video games to the world of Lego&#8217;s physical bricks and characters. At a 25th anniversary open house for Sony&#8217;s Computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/sony-lego-team-up-to-create-programmable-interactive-lego-bricks-ars-technica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}