Vaccuum Cleaner Simulator.

Vaccuum Cleaner Simulator: About.

Building a vaccuum cleaner involves more responcibility than one can possibly handle. Will it work? Will it try to kill you? Will it fall in love with your lawn mover and run away?

In other words, one needs to stop and think hard. And possibly, to run a simulation or two. You know, like when a child wants a doggy, and you tell him to get a rock first, to walk it, to feed it; and when, two weeks later, the rock dies of starvation, you tell your kid: "no, see, you are not ready".

This is a rather simple Vaccuum Cleaner simulator. You can build and furnish an appartment (add new types of frniture, if a supplied set is insufficient), you can fine-tune the algorythm your virtual VC uses to walk around the appartment and so on.

A default VC has no positioning sensors, just a collision detector. You can change it if you want, as the code is open. Please-please-please, respect my copyright.

If you make changes, please do not forget to save them. Note, that Reset (a button on screen, not on a front panel of your computer) does not clear your changes, while page reload will wipe them out. Use Save - Load to overcome the problem.

You need to know JavaScript to make changes. Arguably, that language is a lot of fun.

To provide feedback, exchange opinions or show your code to others, please use Our blog.

Also, you might find interesting some links (follow the orange button on the top menu), particularly, Building your own 3d printer.

User Guide.

First of all, our VC has a limited battery. It moves in small steps, an number of steps is limited by the line
var nMaxCounter = 1000;

You can change it.

"Run" starts / Pauses simulation, "Reset" returns it to initial state.

"Load" and "Save" are for backing up your code changes.

The rest is obvious, see comments in code.

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