Sodaconstructor: Interactive creations using masses and springs (2007)

http://sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor

by thisjepisje • 12 years ago

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thisjepisje3• 12 years ago

A lot of old creations are stored in the sodazoo: http://archive.sodaplay.com/zoo/

Calcite• 12 years ago

I can't believe this is still online. We used to do mini competition amongst friends when this was released. There was also a huge repository of designs made by others you could try out.

joshdance• 12 years ago

I literally have been looking for this for months. Thanks!

greggman• 12 years ago

This was one of the main inspirations for Locoroco. It's been around a lot longer than 2007 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sodaplay.com)

thisjepisje3• 12 years ago

The creatures archive goes as far back as 2000.

russellsprouts• 12 years ago

When I was a kid, I was quite active in the soda race forums and the community there. In fact, my first open source project was a library for generating soda constructor models programmatically.

For example, it let you write text: http://sodaplay.com/creators/russellsprouts/items/font

Some good creators, I'm sure there are many more I'm forgetting:

http://sodaplay.com/creators/mmaarrkkuuss

http://sodaplay.com/creators/edlinfan

http://sodaplay.com/creators/grape

http://sodaplay.com/creators/jeckyll

http://sodaplay.com/creators/im_an_alien

http://sodaplay.com/creators/phider

http://sodaplay.com/creators/lectvay

http://warptera.com/

Many models are made up of motors with legs attached. Here are some interesting ones:

http://sodaplay.com/creators/motors

http://sodaplay.com/creators/other_motors

Also of interest, this paper empirically discovers the physics behind it: http://falcoprof.altervista.org/dispense/sodamathspaperfull....

weka• 12 years ago

Oh man, those were the days. My profile (UrbanTwitch) is still active, too. Whoa. I mostly made rollercoasters, though.

http://sodaplay.com/creators/javascript_freek

thisjepisje3• 12 years ago

I went through a rollercoaster phase as well, lots of fun. If only I could find my account...

xbryanx• 12 years ago

Blast from the past. We actually built Soda Constructor into our science museum traveling exhibit on robots (Robots and Us), way back in the early 2000s:

http://www.robotsandus.org/moving/smmconstructor/

fiddian• 12 years ago

Hi Fiddian here director of Soda, creators of Sodaplay. Thanks for your kind words about Sodaplay. We developed iOS and HTML5 prototypes of Sodaconstructor a while ago which work nicely. It is however a significant amount of work creating a new backend to support the million or so models we have in the database and porting the other tools like Moovl. We are planning to do a Kickstarter to raise funds for the dev work, but need to clean our database of 250,000 registered users' emails which costs money otherwise we'll be instantly blocked as spammers. I very much hope to have the Kickstarter online, bring Sodaplay up to date and reinstate a lot of the version 1 features people liked e.g the zoo!

mcphage• 12 years ago

Awesome—I would back that in a heartbeat!

mcmire• 12 years ago

Omigosh I remember this. This is ooolddd but so cool. I used to mess with the creatures by dragging around the joints and such and then get freaked out when their movements changed from being lovely and life-like to being grotesque and unnerving.

Sodaconstructor: Interactive creations using masses and springs (2007)

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