Comments on: Refresh Cannon Bot

By: Geoff Greer

Geoff Greer — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:49:25 +0000

That is absolutely ridiculous…

…ly cool.

By: Chris Deotte

Chris Deotte — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:01:26 +0000

Hey Geoff, you inspired me to write a program also. I wrote mine in php and used image processing, statistical analysis, and many other optimizations. My robot, named Black Powder, is currently hitting over 70 shots per hour. Check out its progress here: http://banach.ucsd.edu/RefreshCannon/?show=1

By: Geoff Greer

Geoff Greer — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:20:42 +0000

Yeah, I found him yesterday and gloated: http://twitter.com/ggreer/status/1723570459

By: Jordan Eldredge

Jordan Eldredge — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:00:43 +0000

By the way, I think I found your competition: http://twitter.com/probablycorey/status/1712873256

By: Refresh Cannon Bot | ClassicalCode

Refresh Cannon Bot | ClassicalCode — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:22:36 +0000

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By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:15:33 +0000

And I thought I was a big time waster. :-)

See if you can get $5 deposited in a PayPal account for each download. There’s bound to be ten people in the world that would pay for this just so they could get high score.

I mean, since you have so much time on your hands. ;-)