RumiCarWe have released RumiCar Simulator v7.7.0. The release notes below are also available on GitHub. v7.7.0 Added an optional braking system to cars (precise v2 engine only; with the default, nothing changes at all). The real RumiCar brakes wit…
We have released RumiCar Simulator v7.6.0. The release notes below are also available on GitHub. v7.6.0 Added a surface type to courses (precision v2 engine only; nothing changes if you leave the default). Writing surface:"loose" in a cours…
We have released RumiCar Simulator v7.5.0. The release notes below are also available on GitHub. v7.5.0 We re-measured, and corrected, both the reason behind "drifting cannot beat grip" and how far that statement actually reaches (its scope…
We have released RumiCar Simulator v7.4.0. The release notes below are also available on GitHub. v7.4.0 Reduced how often the app asks GitHub at startup, so that community content keeps loading even where many people share one connection, s…
Hello! My name is Muto, and I teach the RumiCar programming classes. In my day job I am an ordinary engineer who builds web systems for businesses. On August 11, at Hokutopia in Oji, Tokyo, we held a RumiCar programming class and our 18th d…
Running communications for a small community comes with a particular kind of exhaustion. There are never enough writers, and there is certainly no spare capacity to write every announcement twice — once in Japanese, once in English. So the …
On this site, publishing one article automatically does two things: the post appears in "What's New" on the front page, and it gets posted to our Facebook Page. Today we published how that works as a methods document, the "AutoPost Guide", …
We have released VideoLoop, the mechanism behind the "video digest window" on the RumiCar top page, as open source software. It is the sibling project of PhotoStrip, which we released a few days ago. Communities, clubs, schools and organiza…
There is a follow-up story to PhotoStrip, the tool we open-sourced - one that may be more useful than the tool itself: how it was built, and why its author missed things. The full write-up is published as a retrospective (English/Japanese) …
The slowly flowing photo strip on the RumiCar homepage is now open source, under the name PhotoStrip. Any community, club, school, or group that wants to showcase its activities with photos is welcome to use it — and so is any busines…
How this site is built (v1.4.0)
Some components are open source:
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