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AS FAR AS arcade games go, there are few as defining as Space Invaders, a game that still holds up after its release in 1978.
Now someone has put together a real-life version of the game using a modified laser cutter, an Arduino board and a webcam.
The game comes from one of the owners of Just Add Sharks, a laser cutter manufacturer based in the UK.
Using an 80 Watt laser tube, he connected it to a custom controller and set up a system allowing him to fire lasers at the alien invaders.
Each invader is made out of paper which means only one thing when it’s hit by a laser that powerful…
A webcam is mounted on the machine showing you the action and the end result is what you would expect: a powerful laser burning everything in its sight.
For the rest of us who don’t have easy access to a laser cutter, you could play the original game online, which is just as fun as before (but with less burning).
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Richard Dawkins either doesn’t know what a meme is or he lost a bet and this is the forfeit. Wackadoo.
Dawkins invented memes and memetic theory in 1976. This is his response the use his term has been put to today.
God help him.
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