lunar-lander-autopilot

A fork of ehmorris/lunar-lander with an autopilot!

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A fork of ehmorris/lunar-lander with an autopilot!

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ricardobeat·Mar 10, 2023

The target velocity is a factor of height, and the autopilot has “160” hardcoded as the ceiling, so going above that means it will never decelerate fast enough. https://github.com/szhu/lunar-lander-autopilot/blob/master/a...

In Show HN: I built an autopilot for the lunar lander game

szhu·Mar 10, 2023Submission

Show HN: I built an autopilot for the lunar lander game

I got pretty good at (and very addicted to) the lunar lander game from a few days ago... so I decided to make an autopilot for the lander based on what I felt like was the best strategy! Now I can have perfect landings every time without lifting a finger :D Writing the autopilot code was a lot more fun than I expected! It felt a bit like programming a robot. Source code: https://github.com/szhu/lunar-lander-autopilot Original lander HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35032506

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