Archive:Portal Cache

Idea

The system consists of two parts:
- 1) A 3D printed portal gun from our beloved Rick and morty, in which resides an esp8266 with some blinky stuff and batteries and display.
- 2) A charging station for 1) which includes a Raspberry Pi (or clones) which has connection to internet over LAN and provides a Access Point
You can go physically near to a charging station of other memebers to leave your mark there, which will be uploaded to the blockchain.
Rewards will be seasonal quests (everyone could create it, but not sure now) like estimating the "Rickest Rick", who travelled most among the universes.
Initally, when you MAKE such a system, you will get a unique universe identifier (something like C-137 + universe level (like miniverse) + planet name (like pluto ;) ) ) and then this will assigned to something like a gpg-key-similar thingy that not other evil Ricks can highjack you.
I am not sure but if we introduce something like cryptocurrency (called Schmeckles or Galactic Federation Units) then should the maker labs hand out some awesome 3D printed stuff? Need to think about that.
Since the history is traceable, you can calculate a score for
- how far
- how many
- how difficult (depending of riddle)
- how fast
- rating for the base-stations: how awesome
There will also be a main page managing, watching current state of games and "create" and "authenticate" users (defies the whole purpose actually, but yeah need to think about that)

pass me butter
no seriously, it is for the makerlabContest, I will create a instructables entry so as many planets, universes and timelines could be visited.
I am thinking about selling kits, or ready to use products to make money for the Mumalab-Fund. I dont know the legal stuff about this, maybe someone can inform me about this.

score
tag-game: Last known portal/base station of the target rick -> tries to escape -> the one who catches, becomes the next -> for each radius/universe/timeline/etc. (these should be mapped location based?)

App
- Actually an app would be more "viral" but would not so be cool like a real physical device
- If it were an app, you could use gps and thus virtually place the checkpoints -> like pokemon go -> and have other companies promote it.
- could be more easy to make money with it.
This is actually quitely hardcore nerdy... -> small market
Pokemon Go ist also just a virtual geo caching...

Secure wifi connection
Hardware -> what is the necessity of hardware? -> Decentralizing and thus robustness? (besides, that it is awesome. I mean you have to carry it and you cannot play it on the go or by the way...)