@sahitid0:forsyth-hacks-label:forsyth hacks (#forsyth-hacks) happened on November 18th, 2023 and was an overall success! at a point we had around 60 attendees and overall had an amazing time with our theme ⚡ (electricity) as well as workshops ranging from @ajs2’s jams to a mini UI design competition. and finally, the hours of food, coding, new friends, and projects (everything from a storm tracker app to a platformer game made w flow!)
personal highlights of the event for me was probably the conversations i had with new people :heart_hands: the whole day, the chance to mentor a group into creating their entire project - from not having an idea, to developing and shipping it 🚢, lightning talks during lunch (like the one about jamstack by @davidm) 🎤, presenting an APIs workshop :postman:, the amazing swag we were able to handout (including string bags, polaroids :tw_camera_with_flash:, & stickers), and of course the presentations at the end!
i want to give a huge thank you and shoutout to the following:
• @ChristianDutton-U04E0LL16MA right hand man all the way and helped make my website design a lovely reality. (can't wait for 3.0)
• @RyanDu-U04QM0MH6TV for the fresh new perspective and ideas for the event & an awesome workshop on how to not make crappy UI design (as well as the mini:figma:competition afterward)
• dj! for the most amazing design and logo for the event :forsyth-hacks-2-bulb:. (or "sick sticker" as sam poder himself deemed worthy)
• everyone who attended! we had over triple the amount of projects than last year and over 80 registered by the day of!
• and ofc everyone at hack club :hackclub-party: who cheered me on all the way (and :bank-hackclub-dark: ofc hcb grant- this event would not have been possible without this :money-printer:, and from the bottom of my heart i am very grateful :blobheart: ).
◦ i had an amazing conversation with @theamazing0 in the middle of the day about how special hack club was to me and how he's in the process of discovering this love for the community as i did a year ago.
▪︎ this spread of love would not be possible if not for the support of more hackathons and more clubs around the world!
📷 full photo album: photos.app.goo.gl/RdvvgMmpD3rpioNc6:githubparrot: hackathon website source code: github.com/SFHSHackClub/forsyth-hacks-v2-site
@sampoder0Made this fun little gizmo on HCB which let’s you generate custom QR codes for yourself! thanks @ian for helping me out with all the Rails standards and stuff
@leom0Finally got my PCB (not assembled)! They feel very smooth and look very crisp! Thanks to Maggie, Kevin, and HC Bank for their help!
@TCYTseven0Working on my hack club bank affiliated non profit, Hack United. hackunited.org Updated Navbar / Added More Information, animations. Not fully done yet, but we plan to be up and running 6/1/23.
@Sameer0Doing random designs on Figma! Thinking I'll make something useful!:cooll-dino:
@Ruien0My first 🚢! HackBackBetter, my hackathon, ran on the 22nd and 23rd of April (last weekend) and was pretty successful! We raised $6.2k in sponsorship from various companies with an incredibly easy experience thanks to Bank (poggers), had 40 out of our 90-100 registered attendees actually show up, and had 10 submitted projects, ranging from games to enterprise software to just straight up something nicknamed "uber but for trash"! Check out some pics below!!!!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉
@malted0Yesterday my work on improving the Bank signup experience was shipped, including a new signup form & playground mode on Bank, complete with mock data!
@caleb0working on a bank feature (i mean, what else would i be doing)
@LouisGan-U04G7K77ZNV0Winter Hardware Wonderland #hardware-party
There were complications in getting the Hack Club Bank to work and parts were slow to ship from overseas - but finally I got all the parts to work and here is the first prototype of the Triton Amphibious Rover! github.com/hackclub/winter/blob/main/thelouisgan.md
The RC controlled rover features a LEGO Technic vehicle that I coupled with a motor, and for the water side of things I rigged an underwater motor and 3D printed rudder to a 25KG servo motor. All this is remotely controlled with an RC so that you can take it to explore different terrain and locations! It is also powered by a rechargeable LiPo battery and will be able to operate up to 15 minutes on a full charge in optimal conditions. Will update more photos and videos of it in action soon!
Please do give feedback/suggestions as this is my first big scale project and thanks to @MelanieSmith and @belle for the support.
@Captain-A.J.0Winter Hardware Wonderland Day 3 :winter-hardware-wonderland: #hardware-party
#WinterSnacks
Today, I prepared some homemade cinnamon bread and placed it on a bed of sugar-coated coconut; we engineers need to keep our energy up!
Lately, I have been trying to upload some code to my Romeo BLE (essentially a DFrobot Bluetooth-enabled Arduino Uno with motor controllers), It is not running yet, but I'm working on it! Also, I have put the bare-bones chassis together and am working on the insides. I hope everyone is doing well on their projects.
Happy Hacking!
@AyushPaul-U02GHNT70TB0:winter-hardware-wonderland:Winter Hardware Wonderland!:winter-hardware-wonderland:
IntelliBag | Day 1
The first day of making IntelliBag! (name due for change soon). Nearly all my parts arrived in a last minute Amazon order, which worked out perfectly. This project is intended to be a “smart backpack” with a bunch of cool new features everyday!
And today, for day 1, I’m doing a dry run of all the USB-based “wiring” and electronics.
I’m going to keep all the electronics hidden in a secret flap of the bag, with waterproof port covers that are easy to access from the outside. Plus, the extension cable will be conveniently located next to the laptop slot.
Even when it’s not in the bag, this setup is super powerful! I’m using a USB power bank that’s connected to a powered USB hub - this way, I can power any device I want and even give pass-through charging to my laptop! And the power bank itself has passthrough charging, which means that if I plug any USB-C charger into the external port, it’ll start charging every device in the bag AND store some charge in the battery itself!
But that’s not all! The power bank supports both input and output for that port, so I can get high-wattage output too! I’m so excited to see how this all turns out - it’s going to be amazing!
Diagram Below!
@msw0Day 1/10 of #hardware-party! Starting today, I’m going to spend a little time every day for the next 10 days building a split-flap display inspired by the parts list from @linkaihere. It’ll be internet connected, so I can wire it up to show the current balance on :bank-hackclub-dark:.
Today I wired up the hall-effect sensors that’ll control the split flaps, and wrote some test code to make sure they’re working the way I want them to. You can see the sensor working by how it flashes from the magnet. Once I have them working correctly I’ll start working on a motor housing in Fusion 360 that will hold the thing in place and connect it to the flaps.
Excited to see the progress everyone else makes today! I’m going to spin up a repo tomorrow and show off my work there.
@kaidevrim0working on learning jetpack compose/kotlin for bankapp
@Sean0Went to see Blood Brothers, and cried in confusion trying to use bank api's. Had a debate w mum on why she should sign a contract for bank. And put up this cool looking picture
@JuanGonzalez0We had a fundraiser today! We sold coffee and bread from portos. Here are some photos from today.
@Sean0Working on something cool and unofficial for bank 🙂
@Khushraj0Everything for my winter wonderland project is here! :winter-hardware-wonderland:
I've also added an annotated picture. Here's my PR: github.com/hackclub/winter/pull/18
Thank you to @belle for reviewing my PR, @MelanieSmith and @DaisyReyes-U046V3EK56W for help with bank and a huge shoutout to everyone working on everything surrounding the grant! Looking forward to building this drone :tw_airplane:
@caleb0i rewrote the way hack club bank manages transfer state to use aasm:skelly-dance-rainbow: this is interesting to nobody but me but i’ve been planning this migration for a long time
@ian0I’m working on Bank Wrapped! Slowly I’m adding in different metrics that might be interesting to display. Right now it shows how many people you’ve collaborated with, total amount transacted in your orgs, and a breakdown of the most common words in transaction memos
@sike0Continuing work on the bank app so I did a little editing to pages and I haven't done the setting page as of yet, if you would like to join me on my journey and help me out: github.com/hackclub/bankapp
@sike0currently learning ruby on rails while developing hack club bank app pretty interesting
@sike0day 9/10 #10-days-in-public in public finished version 1 of the readme for hackclub bank app dev
@sike0day 8/10 of #10-days-in-public I'm still working on a readme for this repo
@sike0day 6/10 of #10-days-in-public so I'm currently working on the app version of bank :bank-hackclub: , if u want to join me on my journey consider joining #bankapp-dev
@sampoder0Lion City Hacks (T-5 days): Ordered the breakfast (kaya toast & french toast from Ya Kun) & desert (donuts from Dunkin’) today! Arsh also got a massive wad of cash from the bank for a special event.
@reesericci0I’m going to implement a TrueSkill rating system and weekly power rankings for the foosball club! Im also going to see if I can get my school to let me use :bank-hackclub: HCB trueskill.org
@DevIos0Coffee addict out here enjoying hot coffee on morning, bit windy day, finishing up all class presentation with 30-40% success on registeration per class , also the hackclub bank sticker was cool so added in my debit card need to do some changes but I guess its okay
@msw0worked 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)
@ian0Day 7 of #10-days-in-public. Almost done with the heatmap! I’m thinking of having two- one for money in, and one for money out. I think this does a good job of conveying when specifically money was raised and spent, as opposed to a line graph just showing money over time. Tomorrow I’ll try integrating it with Bank.
@ian0Day 5 of #10-days-in-public! I’m playing around with an analytics page that gives a quick overview about the financials for an org. It probably won’t ship though.
I’ve figured out how to pull data from the backend into a chart! I’m having some issues with the other chart though… Chart.js can be really annoying sometimes.
Another graph idea for the spending: a github contribution-like grid where it shows shades of green or red like the one on hackpenn.com/finances
Thoughts and suggestions welcome!
@hugo.y.hu9350#10-days-in-public! Built and assembled another sprig today. Put a Pico W on- will try using CircuitPy WiFi to pull bank info onto a sprig!
@ian0Day 4 of #10-days-in-public:
I’m playing around with different status badges instead of the card count. I feel like there’s better information to show at a glance than the number of cards. Try and guess what the different badges mean…
@reesericci0this isn't a zachtoberfest post but it needs to live on my scrapbook
@Lucas0Day 2 of #10-days-in-public
For #10-days-in-public, I'm rebuilding my study group website. Today I incorporated the Hack Club Bank donate layout and added the special thanks
@ian0Day 2 of #10-days-in-public :bank-green-dark:
I added the organization logo, and Max helped me optimize the transaction amount. The page load time is much faster! I learned how async frames work in Rails; it’s pretty neat how it sends HTML over the wire. After I polish some stuff up, you should see it live soon!
@sampoder0day 2 of #10-days-in-public! slight detour as I attempted to add multiple currencies to donation forms on Hack Club Bank… learnt a ton about Ruby, Rails & how currencies work. going to make my PR soon!@caleb0sup scrappy
@ian0My first ever :bank-hackclub-party-dark: Bank ship: Detailed Org List!
The detailed org list is a set of a few modifications on the Bank homepage. Right now it just shows a few stats, but I’m considering adding more soon. Check out the newest feature preview if you’d like to try it out. This is still experimental, so be warned!
@reesericci0🚢 WaiverKit: A tool for attendees to sign the Event Liability Release from :bank-hackclub-party-dark: 🚢
I revived PactMaker by Postmark (old libs and stuff) and replaced the default agreement with the one from Bank to create WaiverKit!
WaiverKit allows attendees to fill out a regular form and by the end have a filled PDF with the waiver; no more hunting for the signature field.
You can try the only instance, the :hackaustin-green-icon: Waiver Portal, at waiver.hackaustin.net
You can deploy your own at github.com/hackaustin/WaiverKit
Happy Legaling!
:dino-drake-nah: DocuSign
:dino-drake-yea: WaiverKit
@reesericci0OH I TOTALLY FORGOT - WE GOT AN RT FROM BANK!!!