Screwed the LCD case together for my pen-plotter (CNC) today at the local makerspace. The case kinda covers the restart button, so I also redid the wiring and added an on/off button
worked on automating a :bank-hackclub-dark: mailing list with @ella! we’ve had a mailing list before, but no way to control who we’re sending it to. now, if @OliviaCook announces a perk that’s just for high school hackathons, we can send it out to just organizers of high school hackathons. it all runs through postal.hackclub.com, so I also learned about how their API works (it’s weird– check out the docs if you dare: sendy.co/api)
Day 9 of #10-days-in-public — started making more art with the CNC holding a pen for practice. It was making a weird grinding sound that was fixed by re-wiring the motors. If you post an SVG in #speedy-diffusion there’s a chance I run it!
day 8 of #10-days-in-public – took a break from the CNC project & worked with @belle to upgrade the extruder on the office 3d printer. the new printer parts were printed on the previous extruder. now that we have the new component in, the printed can run about 3x faster & up to 2x more detail
extra video for day 7 – blooper of the first complex art my CNC tried to make. don’t want to clutter scrapbook so added more videos in #speedy-diffusionday 7 of #10-days-in-public – i had 2 build sessions with @caleb & @ella respectively. got the stepper motors wired up, belts tensioned (while talking over philosophy of tilapia w/ @ced), and generated some gcode for a crown test image
late day 6 update for #10-days-in-public. the assembly for the CNC is still in progress, but I made progress on the electronics. I’ve wired together the main board and now it can talk to the computer (running CNC.js) and the screen. it’s not plugged into the motors yet, but i’ll test that next!
day 5 of #10-days-in-public. i’m still in canada so i can’t make physical progress on my CNC assembly, so this was a good day to start playing with the software i’ll need to use to control it. if i use a slicer to generate gcode, the control software is what replays the gcode to the CNC. downloaded a few programs (ie. repetier-host) & ended up installing CNC.js for the time being. I’ve got it all setup to plug into the main board once i’m in VT tomorrow and start playing with motor control!
Day 4 of #10-days-in-public. I’m working on building the MPCNC & I have the z-axis rails drilled out (with the help of my roommate). I went up to Canada today with @caleb and @matthew, so I haven’t had time to add the rods to the core assembly, but I hope to do it once I’m back on Monday.
Day 3 of #10-days-in-public! I’m building a DIY CNC machine called the MPCNC. I read through the instruction manual about how to wire up the control board & i’m totally lost. i’m afraid of plugging it in while wired incorrectly b/c something might short out and break.
my next step is to find a youtube tutorial of someone who’s built this, and try following along with that to understand how the stepper drivers are wired up without sensors
Day 2 of #10-days-in-public working on the home-made CNC! Assembly has started with help from @ella and @caleb & the frantic night energy is setting in.
I’m learning how to use a CNC machine by building one!
For day 1 of #10-days-in-public, my goal is to finish acquiring the pieces. The metal and electronics all arrived, and the last 3d printed pieces are printing right now. I’ve never done something like this before & want to have everything laid out to start assembling tomorrow. Also watched some videos on how others assembled their CNCs www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5m80r2leY
playing around with stable diffusion more!
there’s something wrong with these cookies. i think i just got my first ai-generated captcha? perfect timing b/c i just started to get into ai image generation
saw a really crazy video rendered with disco diffusion, so now i’m playing around with it on my own machine. the grey dot is an input image which generated the art. going to try making a short movie with it to learn!
Getting to work on deburring the print from last night
Just finished 3d printing the largest single piece in my CNC project! It's hefty & took about 41 hours. Next I'll need to sand it down and get the fuzz off
i thought i had finished TUNIC last time I played! of course there’s more 🦊 🛡️i’ve finished Tunic! one of the most beautifully designed and complex games i’ve ever played. inspiration for multiple parts of assemble
Haven't made physic stuff for a while so I'm at the maker space laser cutting today!
Found an airpod plus
went out exploring sf w/ @KaraMassie-U032A2PMSE9 today. found a cool japanese bookstore that sold little dioramas to put between books on a shelf. i really want to try making my own, so i’ve sketched out a couple designs ranging from a train station to an elven garden. the design i’m exploring rn comes from tunic, a game i really enjoyed
Bat!
here’s the 2 hour timelapse that i forgot to attach to the last scrapprinted a vase-mode pencil holder & reached 10 “makes” on printables.com!
doodling!anime style scene of a chair that looks like an avocado surrounded by flowers, sunset with lavender and orange sky, birds flying...
played around with dall-e running locally some more today. Just played with making images from text inputs so far, but just found a batching feature that will let me generate from a whole list of text inputs. going to play with editing the image inputs to the model when i next have free time
setup visions of chaos so i can doodle with dall-e mini & other text-to-image models
2 overnight timelapses, one before i installed the lightbar, one afterI've been so tired of staying in my room all week I stayed up late putting together a new component for my printer: a light bar! Now it can take timelapses of its prints even overnight. Just queued up and overnight print and will post a comparison in the morning once its done
today i added some missing logic in bank to show pending transactions for disbursements (our inter-account transfer feature). previously we’d just have to tell people money was on the way if we sent a disbursement, but now it actually shows up on the transaction list the second the funds are in transit
today i added some missing logic in bank to show pending transactions for disbursements (our inter-account transfer feature). previously we’d just have to tell people money was on the way if we sent a disbursement, but now it actually shows up on the transaction list the second the funds are in transit
haven’t drawn in a while so i decided to sketch the golden gate!i was feeling done with ads on youtube, so i set up a pi hole (pi-hole.net) for my home network on a spare raspberry pi. Up and running for 15 min, and already 45 domains blocked!
Got my 3d printer re-calibrated and printing again!
built a local file server at today's Hack Lunch (organized by @jessicard)! it's for all the times i want to share files with someone on HQ & either slack or the internet is down
Makin stamps!
working on a new clippy flow (the bot that greets people when they join the slack). still very much a work in progress, and only running off my laptop at time of writing. one part of the flow that is close to done is you can call TORIEL (the new name for the greeter bot) after finishing the tutorial for extra tidbits of info with /toriel-call
orpheus after all that went down today in #orpheus-internals
Working on fixing a bug @BetsyZhang found in the slash-z server code
@kayley asked me to make an orpheus rick roll animation, so last night i made it: youtu.be/jGXJxSwRoOg. just so there's no surprise, the video is a rick roll. it's not trimmed much though, so you'll have to wait through some of the setup.
Found this amazing social security pamphlet from back when government designed stuff was awesome— now working on a couple doodles before my pen runs out of ink
having second thoughts about these designs, anyone have a preference on which text to use? (currently working on them in #productivity if anyone wants to join the screenshare)
I just wrote up a README for my animated orpheus model on a #productivity call. now if you really want to you can turn yourselves into dinos github.com/maxwofford/prophet_orpheus_live2d
Second to last batch of :summer-of-making: envelopes going out
now if you start a meeting with /z you'll get a host key you can use to make yourself the host of the call (without having your name set to "Hack Club" like the golden key does)got a new project in the words (progress thread in #the-fast-lane)
🐔Nearly finished with a drawing based on community team (1 of 3 flavors)
Stamp dispenser printed for all the :summer-of-making: envelopes I’m stamping
orpheus learns to ANIMATE
60 rolls— 6,000 stamps
as practice before bed I drew the bike from Akira. Also posted the steps in #the-fast-lane
also, makin' memes (which better?)
with all the SOM envelopes we're shipping out, I was in the mood to doodle some postal service inspired poster/sticker designs
playing with QR codes to try making artwork. this one is for the office– everyone keeps asking for the wifi info. I want to made it look nice & get it framed
Want to see what 6,000 stamps looks like?
darkmode logo for bank coming soon. what's a better set of darkmode logos? 1️⃣ dark or 2️⃣ neon
started playing with procreate on ipad today. love the replay featureHad to get a temporary bigger yeet box
100 envelopes bundled and sent with @matthew today
Part-time person for sending SoM stickers didn’t show up, so I’m sending a batch today
ran a workshop for :teamliquid:'s hackathon with the help of @clairebookworm@jsneak@matthew. @jsneak and I built a multiplayer among us game in 5 hours right before the presentation ontop of @matthew's v2 of the personal website workshop & @clairebookworm team-carried the vibes through the whole thing. started with 100 attendees & ended with 160
trying to geocode a map of SOM sticker recipients. this is killing my computer and we're only 2/7 of the way done
My notebook pages from Sept 16th writing up how the new bank receipt feature upload would work
it's ALIVE!!! (amazing work credit to @ky200617) This is just a pre-print, but an order of ~500 will be in production soon.
can't believe i didn't do this sooner
Had a :figma: doodle session while watching "Hilda" on :netflix:. The backgrounds are originally from the show, I just modified them. Here's the sandbox
here are the sketches that would eventually become buttons in hack.af/make-dino
doodled with a dino sticker today
Yesterday I doodled with some new sticker designs
Early designs for Flagship stickers/posters I made last year. Ultimately didn’t go with them, but they informed the final design (and the art for cdn.hackclub.com)
WIP concept art for a new project (the #cdn channel in slack)
working on an animation for the latest site @lachlanjc is buildinggot a tech demo running on bank. the black cards are from stripe, and you can issue them for yourself instantly (no more review/approval step). just live on my dev server, rn
relaxing day with high level discussions around clubs. planning out the move to stripe issuing. draw some space stuff 🚀 with sharpie pens that @christina695 picked up at the art store (thank you!).
we're going to be switching card providers for hack club bank soon, so i've been going through the slog of moving our models around to support the old Emburse card data & the new (Stripe/Privacy) card data
worked with @amogh (& @orpheus2) to plan out a new version of art in the dark for next week
Going through a round of review before printing another batch of stickers. This is the making-of & first test print of the Global Covid Hackathon sticker (printing final version soon)
i drew weird birds
check them OUT!!!
A couple things I've made with :figma:
@scrappy now has a startup message that gets posted in #bot-spam for each new build
Add sound to your scrapbook by uploading a file to the #scrapbook-sounds channel!Sketch of a new sticker design
Hack Club Bank now shames you if you don't upload your receipts /s
it was a hot day so i drew a hot dog 🌭 :doggo:
playing with typography– these were early drafts of the emoji used for scrapbook streaks
As part of some improvements to @orpheus2 , the heartbeat in #orpheus-internals is 4x faster. Now we can check for inactive breakout rooms (@orpheus2 breakout) every 15 minutes
Playing around with a new feature for the Slack— create your own breakout rooms using Orpheus
we have a bunch of stats logged in hack.af (our link shortener), but it only keeps 45k lines of logs around. I just wrote my first deno script that exports an airtable base to the local file system, so now we can backup our logs past 45k of lines
Playing with some stamp-like sticker designs
some early designs for the summer of making
here's the history of the hackclub/hackclub repo!Hack Club's API codebase, including back when it was called "monolith" & included our workshops (the blue flowers w/ pink leaves)visualization of our work on Hack Club Bank! changelog.bank.hackclub.com so you can see where code changes were connected to a new feature
also rendered the codebase for scrapbook.hackclub.com (by @.lachlanjc
I rendered the git history of us creating @.scrappy bot's codebase! (from gource)
