Remote Joystick for Tetris

Objective: To explore theoretical and practical aspects of sockets, modifying a Tetris game.

Actual game:

./tcp-controlled-game (more info. about it there)

Joystick:

./tcp-controller (more info. about it there)

Description:

In the previous project, Tetris-On-Terminal-BeagleBone-Version, we explored the use of GPIO and ADC on the BeagleBoneBlack, using threads and priorities. A joystick as implemented for a game running on the BBB. Now, the idea is to add new features, such as socket communication.

• 1. The project has 2 programs, a client and a server;
• 2. One is the game (server) and the other one, the joystick (client);
• 3. Sockets: The communication between the programs, running on different machines, uses TCP sockets;
• 4. The joystick uses Python 2, while the game is made in C++ and uses a class for sockets made in C++11;
• 5. Threads are used both in the joystick and game to manage the communication. In the joystick, they are also used to read data from the analogic inputs;