Overview
My friends and I were watching the old TRON movie and had the absolutely diabolical idea to recreate TRON LightCycle with RC cars at a hackathon. This was a huge undertaking and wayy too much to figure out in 24 hours (especially because we built the cars ourselves on the day), but we did get it done!
Technical Details
I won’t get into details (just bc I don’t want to type all that out) but this project included:
- remote-control cars built and coded from scratch with parts ordered before the hackathon
- an XBox Kinect camera and a projector that we had laying around
- real-time infrared LED tracking
- linear algebra
- ElevenLabs
- cutting into a ceiling tile (we brought our own)
- pushing dozens of tables together
- not asking the organizers if any of this was ok to do (don’t be like us! thankfully they were chill with it lol)
It’s genuinely a miracle that this all worked and probably the dumbest thing my friends and I have attempted at a hackathon. Check out the README to learn more!
CornHacks 2025
Unfortunately couldn’t find a picture, but we got 2nd place!
Repositories
USS-Watson/corncycle-game
tron lightcycle with physical remote control cars, a camera, and a projector
Updated 10 months ago
USS-Watson/corncycle-hw
Updated 10 months ago
Last updated on December 28, 2025.