One of [Tom’s] friends is celebrating a birthday soon, and he was asked to make a mini golf hole for the event. While most people would expect to bring beer or guac to the shindig, he saw this as an opportunity to bring a little bit of Portal to life.
Near the end of the first Portal game, you are forced to pitch your companion cube into the incinerator, a scene which [Tom] thought would be the perfect mini golf hole. He started out by building an iris door mechanism, which he surrounded with chicken wire and some plaster, producing a fantastic-looking waste disposal pipe.
He added a ramp that leads up to the hole, then [Tom] got busy with the electronics portion of the fixture. Once the portal button at the end of the ramp is pressed, an Arduno triggers a pair of motors to open the waste disposal door and fire up a smoke machine. The result, as you can see in the video below, is nothing short of awesome.
[Tom] says he’s in the process of building a pair of turrets and a working golf ball portal as well, so if you’re a big Portal fan, be sure to check out his site for updates.
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Dude, spoiler alert.
Dude, statute of limitations. Also, Samus Aran is a woman.
Vader is Luke’s dad, man.
WHAT? Thanks for ruining Star Wars!
The point is, the sentence is designed to spoil the game for people.
If it wasn’t in the post then there would be no loss. People who knew the story would get it and the one remaining guy who didn’t would just be like, meh must be a reference.
Portal 1 is ->five<- years old which is what they're pointing out by saying "Vader is Luke’s dad, man". In the game world perspective that's really really old.
You wouldn't call spoiler alert on that either.
You know all the people in lost? Ya they are actually dead. Have a nice day!
Are they? That’s a relief.
The boat sinks.
Also… Bruce Willis was dead.
Kevin Spacey is Keyser Söze.
Also, the Planet of the Apes is Earth.
He did have relations with that woman.
the “bring a little bit of Portal to life” links to a questionable porn site
Questionable no.
Porn… maybe.
😉
I got that redirect the first time I tried the link too, but the second time it landed on the build log instead. Weird.
Tried again on my other browsers and IE got knocked to one of those bogus virus scan pages.
I wonder if its deliberate?
you should run a scan, “little bit of portal” AND “iris door mechanism” links both were caught by my Antivirus on both my winxp machines, as trying to run a harmful script within IE 8.
the download was stopped in time, but, i would be worried the script made changes, hence why it redirected to a porn site.
I’m good, running FF on a Mac, and I stopped the redirect before it finished anyway. ^.^
any chance you can give me the name/location of the script its trying to run? I’ll go fix it 🙂
it got caught in a mass wordpress exploit. Great, thats tonight planned for me then, migrate to Hibari!
the AV notice read: “Malware repelled; HTML..Script.inf”
i’m thinking its generated locally at page load.
i could not find it on my machine (but it was also blocked) Nor on your webpage. viewing html-source for your page, all looks good, but then i’m not a programmer.
And btw – nice build, i may have to build one for my kids! j/k
The porn is a lie.
“Near the end of the first Portal game”
Don’t you incinerate companion cube like within the first quarter of the game? Nowhere even near the end.
This is true 🙂 i also remember it being about…well around half way. Might be wrong though.
About halfway sounds right to me too… only one way to find out for sure though! *fires up steam & portal*
I was thinking the same haha. It’s about halfway I’d say.
He’s running wordpress 3.3.1 which has exploits.
Last line in the html states:
Proudly powered by my hatred of the internet and all that use it
Guessing the porn site is related.
Hmm, maybe not. The exploit is timing critical. Has to happen between install time and config time.
Oh and very cool build!! 🙂
What, no propane and forced air incineration system? Here I thought this was a clever way to end a game of mini golf.
This was a triumph.
So, being this is for a birthday party and all, will there be cake if you make the shot?
Of course there is cake! You just have to make one more shot, first.
Why not expand this to have the golfball roll into an orange portal and have a bit of electronics dispense another golf ball out of a blue portal somewhere else in the course? You could use a powerful solenoid to fire it out with the same force it went in at. Just thinking aloud.
thats the plan, in fact I built the ball tracker and exit gantry system last night
Forget that, I didn’t see the reference earlier. Reading are hard.
I’m sure it will be a great source of amusement. As a concept, portal fits into crazy golf really neatly, because of the puzzle solving aspect and the comical slapstick element. I’ll look forward to seeing your finished project in full 🙂