Life

This page is the central documentation site for the Interactive Game of Life (IGoL) Kit from Evil Mad Science.

Important note: This documentation is still under construction-- expected completion: Week of 4/30/2012.

Main details about the Game of Life Kit:

• Announcement article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Product page at Evil Mad Science

Kit assembly and usage instructions:

• The IGoL kit is based on Octolively hardware; Please refer to the Octolively assembly instructions (hardware portion only):

(A) Octolively Guide-- PDF version, 13 MB. (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)

(B) Octolively Guide-- Page by page "HTML" Version

• Additional Game of Life Kit specific instructions are coming soon -- expected completion: Week of 4/30/2012.

Open Source Hardware documentation:

• IGoL is an open source hardware+software project. The hardware designs are licensed under the TAPR OHL.
• The circuit board design is in gEDA. Design files (.zip archive) available here
• Octolively circuit schematic alone available here: octolively_ref.pdf
• Source code repository: Hosted at Github

Additional resources:

• The Wikipedia article on Conway's Game of Life is an excellent general introduction to the subject.

Places for questions, answers, and sharing experiences:

• Forum at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Evil Mad Science Auxiliary Flickr Group where you can share photos of your Octolively setups