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50 days challenge ❄️ Daily update #10 | Streak: 10 days! I did 104 chemistry practice problems today, since my midterm's tomorrow. I also did 20 calculus problems on WebAssign and noted down key mistakes. And reviewed the mistakes for chemistry. Completed an economics worksheet, as well. My brain crashed so I doomscrolled after doing all of that, of course. I still have 18 more chemistry problems and do not feel confident about these calc concepts at all. The chemistry problems are also big, they are supposed to take 3+ HOURS to complete? Wish me luck on my chemistry midterm + calculus test tomorrow! I have bad grades in calculus and really need a comeback, but unfortunately I don't feel like tomorrow will be the one... AAAAAA I AM DEAD I AM DEAD I AM DEAD

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Hey everyone! Something really cool happened yesterday! Want to hear about it? I hope so, because I'm going to say it either way! I went to a local hackathon called Island Hacks which is hosted every year. I went to this same hackathon in September 2024, and had such a good time I looked for more hackathons, which eventually led me to discover Hack Club! It was basically the point when I stopped doing beginner courses and really started to code regularly and actually make projects. I've grown so much since then, from growing my html and (basically nonexistent) css and js skills to coding 100 hours on one project for #Juice, and designing PCBs in KiCad to running my own club with @Slloom , and so much more. I can't say I owe it all to Island Hacks - more organizations and people have been part of my journey than I can count - but it was definitely part of the start of it all. Anyway, I can tell more of my story later. Right now, I want to talk about yesterday's Island Hacks. It started at 9am with breakfast and a three-to-a-team puzzle/riddle thing through google form. I joined up with two girls named Amelia and Aria who were sitting at my table. After the first team completed it, they announced the theme: Make something that solves a problem of someone in your life. Both Amelia and Aria had never really coded before, so we stayed for the beginner's workshop that immediately followed. By the time it finished, we had a solid idea of what our project would be: A website that generates icebreaker questions to help you get to know someone. At the end of the day, we presented our website, and waited while the judges deliberated. And then something entirely unexpected happened. We won the Judges Choice Award!!! I never would have expected us to win. The project was certainly much better than the project my team had made last year, but there were a ton of cool projects this year - which I suppose makes the win even sweeter :) With that, let me just say a huge thank you to the Island Hacks team. They worked so hard to put this on, and I would highly recommend attending next year if you live in the bay area (find them at island-hacks.org). And of course, a shoutout to my amazing team. Our project would have not been possible without them: Aria did all the art, Amelia helped with function design and created the questions (60+ of them!), and I did most of the programming. They were both so much fun to work with! See the demo here: kerhylonkava.github.io/IcebergQuestions And the repo here: github.com/KerhylonKava/IcebergQuestions You can read the pitch Amelia wrote for it below if you want to :)

Have you ever struggled to really connect with someone?

In my family, we often have the problem of not knowing what kinds of questions to ask each other. We want to actually learn more about one another, but are too often faced with distraction or a lack of ideas. We want something that will be fun and actually tell us more. 

That's why we created our website, Break the Ice.

The purpose of this website is to provide a fun and engaging way to get to know other people, through asking the right questions.

 Our website generates questions in three levels. Basic questions, which help you learn about what's on the surface of a person, Mid-level questions, which offer ways to dive deeper and begin to understand them, and Deep questions, which provide thought provoking prompts to help grasp their core beliefs and identity.

Anyone can search up a list of "Get to know you questions" but wouldn't you rather have a website dedicated to their curation, with a fun command-on-click user experience? I sure would. We hope this website inspires more connection between people, without the barrier of brain fog.

If you take one thing away from this, go to a hackathon! They can be so much fun and they allow you to connect with people with similar interests who you might not otherwise meet. Anyway, thanks for reading! There was also a speaker panel, so I might post the advice I learned from that. Keep an eye out!

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50 days challenge ❄️ Daily update #5 | Streak: 5 days ;) It is very late so I can only provide a very short entry here, since I was at the debate tournament all day... I WON ALL MY DEBATES AND GOT 2ND PLACE OUT OF 65 PEOPLE YIPPEE I neglected my homework after being brain fried from hours at the tournament and watched the most random videos though... will lock in tomorrow! Side note: 7,050 steps today :3

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I'm a little confused about how to kick off my personal project. Trying to figure out the design, the Low-Level Design (LLD), the High-Level Design (HLD)... it's like my brain opened 47 tabs and none of them are loading! :cry_smile:

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Made a script for hackducky! Started and finished today so my brain is kinda fried. Going to ship it (SOM) on a later date. The script automatically rickrolls the user, as well as do smaller annoying things.

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Today I worked a bit on my black box project. It turns out math.h isn't available, so I did some digging so I could write my own sine & cosine functions (which turned out to be a bit of a rabbit hole). I ended up using the Taylor series approximation, which works alright for values between -PI and PI (and makes my brain go a bit mushy). Now I can draw a rotated rectangle (yay!).

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*Bad Jokes* is finally up and shipped. Go rot your brain and praise the seas > Repo: github.com/sayhan1610/bad_jokes > Live Demo: sayhan1610.github.io/bad_jokes_site

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Been working on adding enemies to my little bow game. Still trying to wrap my brain around properly detecting collisions. Using the Terraria target dummy as a placeholder, LOL

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Been a long time since I actually posted something on here... I have made an app for android (and linux) that makes using AirPods on those operating systems way easier and better. Do you know how much Apple likes to restrict most of the features to their devices. Well, I removed the restriction! I reverse-engineered how Apple devices communicate with AirPods and wrote an app for linux and android. AirPods use the L2CAP Bluetooth protocol to communicate with apple devices. The linux version of this app has multiple scripts. One of them runs as a daemon to handle the connection, and others to handle UI, userspace, like pausing music, lowering volume, etc.. I did this so that I can have multiple applications which can talk to the AirPods without interrupting the other one. It is written purely in Python. Currently, I have made a tray application using PyQT5/6. It manages ear detection, conversational awareness, and gives me control over ANC. And, it shows the battery level too! As for the Android app, well I have attached a few images! Yes, I have tried to clone iOS's settings screen for AirPods. :okig: The android app was a pain to work upon. For starters, Android's bluetooth stack sent extra packets to the AirPods to check for some flow control mode. The AirPods will not respond to anything until they receive a specific handshake packet. I had to download the entire android source to test out and edit the libbluetooth_jni.so (the bluetooth stack). Then, I used my smol brain to make a few changes to the source code (and by a few changes, i mean commented a few lines)... And, it worked! Rant about Apple - Guess what- They hide their handshake packet from the PacketLogger app which allows me to view all the packets sent/received from my mac to any bluetooth device. Fortunately this was available online thanks to some other people who worked way before me. Apple even hid another packet necessary to activate Conversational Awareness and Adaptive Audio! Somehow, I got really, really, really lucky, and the packet just showed up in the PacketLogger app, shortly after which, it crashed. :confused-dino: What works on the app – • Accurate battery levels • In-Ear detection – Music is automatically paused when they're taken out of ear! Plus, AirPods are removed as an available audio output device when none of the AirPods are in ear. • Conversational Awareness – Lowers volume when you start speaking! • Set Noise Control Mode – I can change the Noise Control Mode on my AirPods Pro 2! • Renaming AirPods • And a bunch of other settings extracted from the iOS/iPadOS settings page. ◦ Namely, Toggle Conversational Awareness, Toggle Loud Sound Reduction, Set Adaptive Audio Noise level, Toggle Automatic ear detection, Off listening Mode, Tone Volume, Noise Cancellation with Single AirPod, Toggle Volume Control by swiping. • And, of course, a debug screen, which lists all packets received, and even allows you to send packets! GitHub: github.com/kavishdevar/aln upvote the issue on android issue tracker so that the bug gets fixed: issuetracker.google.com/issues/371713238 :>

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worked a little more on my brainrot generator, and now it can scrape reddit for content or generate educational brain rot (chapter explanations, summaries etc stuffed with brainrot slang).

made a brain rot vid generator, plan on making this scrap reddit etc and automate uploading stuff to youtube github.com/Stupid-Creations/brainrot-gen

I made a digital painting of a brain! github.com/Lenochodik/Brain-Lenochodik

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exam portal for a competition: figma link: www.figma.com/design/QYrKEzAoOb8yLF3iuupV0v/Brain-Blitz-Portal?node-id=0-1&t=4ANCNPbnqC4OPNEb-1

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I've been doing testing and learning to solder (sob) and how the components work, as well as making a design & general plan & gathering components for a fun idea for a Halloween costume (yeah, I know I'm preparing like 2 months in advance). The general idea is: I modify this EEG headset (done already, but it broke so I'll have to redo it) to send my brain signals to a a microcontroller (I'm going to replace the arduino uno with an esp32) through Bluetooth. Then the microcontroller controls a pair of servos that are hooked up to cardboard & feathers to make "wings", and thus my brain waves can control the "wings" opening and closing! github.com/swan-07/eeg-wings-prototype-idea

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I've expanded on my cellular automata website from last time! I added 3 more automata: Brian's Brain, Wireworld, and Rock Paper Scissors! Here's the repo: github.com/Niyaz-Mohamed/Cellula And here's the website: niyaz-mohamed.github.io/Cellula

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i’ve been working on classifying EEG data (recorded from the scalp for brain signals) and i finally saw a graph of what i was analyzing today! i’ve had to go thru a couple steps to get to this point like denoising, filtering, and feature extraction so i’m very happy to get to this point (graphed is a plot with x being the standard deviation of all the filtered data from 0.1-4 Hz and y being the standard deviation of all the data from 4-8Hz. it may not look like too much but when i compare it with more data i will be able to diagnose neurological diseases with hopefully good accuracy) github.com/byung806/EEG-Classification/commit/11b6adab34988fd2f211345272479825af74d3df

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This is a auto otp brain strom i did the idea i have an i will start implementing it

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Brain Damaged Wizard Orpheus project because I'm tired lol

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hiiii !!! i made a sudoku game using js #arcade #scrapbook (github.com/lopa-ok/sudoku) this took so much brain power i hope yall like it (made the second recording with just number missing to show the congrats screen)

github.com/TRXAlpha/Maze-Duel/commit/b057dc4f5f902bfeced8ca6f76561358bab512f3 the "brain" of Maze Duel!!!! (game for android phone, possibly for watch too, as I want to play it on my watch!!!!)

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java fries ur brain

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#arcade just published my project about detecting schizophrenia with brainwaves while playing a simple game! check it out! youtu.be/1XwlOk5TGPA medium.com/@yakshith.kommineni/diagnosing-schizophrenia-with-ai-and-brain-computer-interfaces-0b9452ca5873

Basic foundations of the code are done, I just need to work on some CAD and building before I code as we need to figure out our plan. I will be working on getting addressable lights for the brain, using the threewire port to power them, and also making a GUI for the brain, to switch things like auton modes from defending to attacking etc. github.com/N1k0s1/11044_Bazinga/tree/main

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Day 93 of #100-days-in-public. At apocalypse today, got to ride on a turbo prop airplane for the first time. Also had a really fun time at a brain fuck workshop, and am currently in an onboard workshop!

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Installing Ollama

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day 2 of #bci! today my goals were to get the hang of using kicad, understand the schematic of openbci's cyton board (which is, along with hackEEG and piEEG, the basis for a lot of our understanding of what exactly happens in EEG boards) and spin up a bill of materials for everything going in our pcb. i got to the first two and didn't do the last one (although i will eventually get to it!), but i had a lot of fun! today was another great day because this is the most fun i've had in a while building shtuff (among other things: deciding who would be who in the openai drama, the f*ckboard, dinner at steve). tomorrow's goal is to spend the whole day just building the actual pcb (and then spend thanksgiving off?) we're building this out in the open so my daily notes are all here: cloud-ckujstd4d-hack-club-bot.vercel.app/0jc_0e4ee6c5e5e546ce910bda3e3ad2ac10.pdf (this is part of #100-days! join us over there, we're working on cool stuff like #apocalypse and #dallas-day-of-service!)

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day 1 of #bci! i mostly got caught up on a bunch of things today (including, but not limited to: parts of the brain, eeg concepts like the 10-20 system, reading schematics, understanding what exactly we’re doing including the process of actually designing the eeg circuit: electrodes -> ads1299 (including digital to analog converter) -> microcontroller -> computer for extra processing - so many black boxes we’re trying to figure out!) and generally feel like i’m ready to start playing around with kicad/observing tomorrow! today was a great day overall, although we think we could have focused a bit more and it still feels like i don’t know anything. tomorrow’s goal is to build shit which is the easiest way to understand stuff. we're building this out in the open so my daily notes are all here: cloud-6crgvlqrj-hack-club-bot.vercel.app/0jc_e4acbe3e3aff48778866059bb21c78be.pdf (this is part of #100-days! join us over there, we're working on cool stuff like #nanowrimo and #polyglot-warriors!)

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Restoring Mr Robot with Vex Cortex and ROBOTC milestone (with @Jaxzog)! The master brain is now talking to the follower and successfully sending values over UART!

Installing headers to adapt the ports to a vex cortex brain for Mr. Robot (a Lego technic based humanoid)

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#hardware-party day 6/10 My brain: Oh yeah this might actually work. The main structure is mostly done!!! Gonna start wiring stuff up to get ahead on the code. Bought two boards to try as the baseplate, IKEA as-is is awesome. Also upgraded my light above my workbench! ~~It’s now brighter than my future.~~

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❄️ Day 4 of #WinterHardwareWonderland ❄️ It's been day 4 of WinterHardwareWonderland and today I am starting to build my project from scratch. Im a little late, but from now on I will try to keep posted. Started arranging frame and motors for today, and then the compass and brain for my copter 🤘 #hardware-party

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That moment when your brain stops working

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Halloween brain surgery!

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AI solves a maze (real)

*What's Henry™ Been Up to After Assemble?*™ --------------------------------------------------- The question on all of your minds: What's Henry™ Doing With His Time After Assemble™? Ever since the groundbreaking release of his team's Assemble™ project, the world has awaited his next ship™. When asked about this, he will say: "_I'm working on a few different projects_" What he means to say is that he currently has 12 windows open, 5 of them Firefox™ instances, each with more tabs then can fit on the navigation bar. One of those browser windows is entirely devoted to Wikipedia™ pages that he opens, and then refuses to close until he fully reads, despite the fact that he has no interest in doing so. In another window, he has everything from Ben Eater 8-bit breadboard CPU schematics, to Rust™ documentation, to TensorFlow™ docs and a partially written auto-encoder. He also has 3 Sprig ™windows, and article on how BitTorrent™ works, and a random CVE™. There is also an article on TradeMark™ Law, that he has clearly not read. There is even the skeleton of a 6502™ Emulator™ that he may or may not finish. There's a few 3Blue™1Brown™ videos that he's stuck trying to follow. There is an article on how memory works that he does not remember if he has read. In another window, we have 1 Gig of raw Wikipedia™ data, and a Visual™ Studio™ Code™ window with code for an GO™ algorithm he is trying to use to compress said 1 Gig of Wikipedia™ data. Beyond that he has a Logisim™ window, with a partially designed ALU™ that he is trying to work on. Each time he makes progress on one project, he gets interested in something else and opens 100 tabs for that. He is secretly hoping for his computer to crash and wipe his computer he can reorganize. He is spending large amounts of time studying useless aspects of computer science™, and math™. It has been like this since Assemble™ ended, and will continue indefinitely. This has been What's Henry™ Been Up to After Assemble?™. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for skimming over: _What's Henry™ Been Up to After Assemble?_™

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rsi shenanigans at the visual attention lab 🧠

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Cryptography hurts my brain :no-thoughts-fest:

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Big Brain Boi

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I hopefully won't be coding or active much for the next 8 days, because I'm going away over break. Honestly don't mind much lmao, I need to chill (I will miss my green square streak) gonna to learn how to dive and stuff, it's going to be awesome. Also, planning on messing around with neural nets and stuff. Sadly won't get much of a chance to try out my logic gates. Also there's an image of all the items I've added to my simulator in the last 2 weeks, this is the longest i've coded consecutively, and the most fun I've ever had doing so far more importantly added the long needed pause button to my sim

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The new JetBrains splash screens are really quite something (awful) so I redesigned it for myself so I won't go blind. The relevant issue this has caused is really quite funny: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-266149

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Ever wondered what an AI’s view would be on ideas like politics and ethics? I made a prompt for GPT-3 to create unique insights on issues like AGI, communism, and God! Its my first “project” (messing around) with it, so check it out and drop a heart! notebook.neelr.dev/stories/ai-on-politics-and-philosophy

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Started using @matthewvandyke08’s Brain Dump beta app to keep track of my harebrainned ideas!

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Chose an icon for the design today

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Soldered the pins on my raspberry pi pico and wrote a little program that turns the led on when you press the button

Didn't do any coding today but did set up a new figma project for a design I am starting

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Made a portfolio of websites I made in 2020! 10/12 use :nextjs: Next.js on :vercel: Vercel 👀 2020-sites.lachlanjc.com

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Had our biggest hackclub meeting, worked on my game dev garage, and helped @Shivesh with his awesome workshop!

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memorizing a Spanish presentation bc we’re not allowed to put words on the slides (except for title slide)

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