@cupcakes7+Found this really cool book about electronics! It supplements my electromagnetism knowledge well so far and hopefully I can make more complicated circuits by the end :electric:
@KarthickArun1First day of school back from spring break freedom but yesterday when I was in break still , I was looking at me 3 raspberry pi’s I have , one is a b+ 2017 version ( I brought it to leaders summit) , wanted to do some cool stuff with it and decided on building a retro pie, with built in cooling through some fans and heatsinks and retro controllers and case , and I have some amazon gift cards from my bday and earlier stuff so I’m planning on using that all for this , it’d be pretty good to have a retro console i put together.
@CassidyCodes0Made This Cool CSS Theme for myself when I'm browsing scrapbook@cupcakes7+Attended KWK Code-A-Bration and met some really cool Apple engineers and people! 💖
@jdogcoder0In Rwanda for a docu project with school! About to finish week 2 of 3 and having a blast! Yesterday we visited the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund Museum, and it was super cool! More updates in #jasper-does-circus-plus-cats and here when I get back :)
@dominic0mining some rubies for #10-days-in-public, this is a pretty cool tutorial. feel like I understand like 3/4 of what I'm doing which could be worse?
@toby0day 3 of #10-days-in-public!! hello from room 404 in a hotel in salzburg! today was my last day skiing, and it was a blast! it was quite rainy, which was a shame, but the resort was almost empty! ⛷️ :10daysinpublic:
@cupcakes7+learned how to use a terminal to run a website! so cool 😎
@karmanyaahm1Electronic Piano PCB ordered! Jam coming soon™. The gold/silver/circular pads are surfaces connected to capacitive touch sensors (they detect your finger by how it forms a capacitor with the circuit). I have different layers on those to experiment with which finish works best for touch detection in this design. But whenever each key detects touch, it allows the capacitor of the 555 timer (a frequency generator) to be charged at a rate determined by the variable resistor for that key (the potentiometers are at the top). Those potentiometers can be tuned to allow for different frequencies for each key. Then, the 555 timer outputs a signal into the speaker circuit, which you can then hear!
What are your cool name ideas for this PCB? The best suggestion gets to be the jam title!
@cwalker0got some new safety glasses@polypixeldev0Worked with @Kyrillos on the first #quests! We created a small avocado-themed planet using A-Frame (never worked with it before) - super cool creating 3D worlds with it! Excited for the next quest :quests: 👀
Check it out at vr-quest.kyrillosibrahi1.repl.co
@jc0day 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!)
@jc0day 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!)
@regisrex0that little gradient background made my site look cool, isn't it ?
@cupcakes7+100 days! Found a cool retro css style for my personal website!
@Malycia0Spent some time in downtown Olympia + made some cool stuff at home :)
@JackMerrill0don’t have any huge updates, been out all day but i’ve thoroughly enjoyed my stay at Steve and will miss being here!! met up with a bunch of amazing HCers for dinner and walked around the waterfront. also went to the ECHO center, pretty cool but definitely child oriented lol.
ty steve :prayge:
@jc0Day #93 to 2024! Got CircuitPython running on Adafruit Neopixels thanks to @Cheru. Eventually I want to build the grid from scratch (soldering will be a pain in the a**), but for now this is really cool@jc0Day 95 to 2024: I've been working on something with lights and Pyodide (pyodide.org/en/stable)! I'll reveal more information in tomorrow's post but Pyodide is pretty darn cool - it lets you run Python in the web in a way that makes sense. Other things I've been working on include trying to get #scrapbook to work and also something broiling in #clue-game... (although it doesn't work yet haha)
@sampoder0🇨🇦 Hack The North 2023! @ImDeet-U045B4BQ2T0, @fayd and I teamed up to make :goose-dance: Hack The Geese :goose-honk-left:! It was a game that attendees could play using the QR codes on their badges. Here’s how’d it work:
1. You’d scan your badge’s QR code to log in.
2. Your find someone who you’d like to compete against and scan their badge’s QR code.
3. You’d both receive a prompt, eg. “take a selfie with a someone with blue hair”.
4. You’d race to take a fun picture based on the prompt before the other player does.
5. You either win or lose, then you got to choose wether or not to rematch!
You can go to htgeese.tech/album to see all the photos that folks took during demos with the game (and many more of me stressing over the backend)!
We used a slightly cursed combination of a Next.js frontend and a backend written in Go which interacted with one another through Websockets…. yeah, very cursed and very jank. We also used Vercel’s new Postgres & Blob storage services which were surprisingly good. And, of course, we used Prisma…. including it’s slightly hacky spin-off Go client.
Another awesome part of the game was @ImDeet-U045B4BQ2T0’s custom designed geese (GEESE!):
:htn-goose-1: :htn-goose-2::htn-goose-3::htn-goose-4::htn-goose-5::htn-goose-6::htn-goose-7::htn-goose-8::htn-goose-9::htn-goose-10:
Every player got one of these made for them when they first signed! The game was a bunch of fun to play IRL and we had people playing it throughout the demo session. Attached is a sick selfie of @fayd in his sunnies and the judge!
And at the end of the day, somehow, we were selected as winners so we got to demo on stage and won a couple of prizes which was pretty cool! Here’s us playing a game with all the attendees and a couple of other photos from the weekend (including us working on the project while on #hack-night!).
The GitHub is full of more photos and stories from the weekend: github.com/sampoder/hack-the-geese. O CANADA!
@sam0Oh wow SLA 3D printing is really cool.
Still getting hang of the process. A ton of post processing compared to FDM. This Eiffel Tower didn’t come out perfectly, I still need to dial in the settings.
@ThomasStubblefield0woah express is cool. so much cooler than fastAPI.
+ working on a personal project that I have been putting off for WAY too long
@IceChes0The 3d printer I designed inside the enclosure I designed. It’s been idle for a while suggestions on cool useful stuff to print welcome.
@CatherineWang0SPARK TAUGHT ME HOW TO CODE (NOT SPONSORED) aka dumb kid learns to code in 24 hours bc of cool spark leader!!
@BoyneGregg-U04AF4NLSJE0I just got an oscilloscope from a cool guy, and I wired it up to my Raspberry Pi with a potentiometer so I can move the voltage line across the CRT. I’d like to order a digital potentiometer so I can wire it up to become a sort of audio visualizer or something. This vector-esque CRT graph display is really cool, and playing some beats with a visual would be the coolest thing ever. When I get the chance to put some of my cash on my card, I’ll have to order a cheap (around $1.50) digital potentiometer, and follow a guide to use Python to control it. Maybe I could capture output from VLC or any other application to just show a visualizer for any media on the Pi.@jc0cool stuff!@SamratBose0@Srijit really a cool guy
@sam0Past 3 days @ Shad :shad: were again super busy and stressful. Making a prototype in a day combined with a presentation and video in 2 days, a lot of stuff to fit into the already busy schedule. I also forgot to mention in my last post but we did soap 🧼 carving!
Some highlights! I made a whale 🐳 (hopefully it somewhat resembles one). There was a workshop about bio-inspired 🌻 design. We folded some paper into a cool pattern! Also had another workshop on 🪡 suturing. I learned some basic suture patterns and throws. Finally, we visited Fort Calgary, a Canadian 🇨🇦 National Historic Site. I also had some fun building pillow forts. :p
That's all folks. With only 5 of 26 days remaining in the Shad :shad: program and a presentation to judges tomorrow, time flies when you're having fun!
@sam0Another interesting Shad :shad: day! Had a workshop on indigenous Inuit art and 🪡 sewing. Also visited the University of Calgary’s solar car ☀️ team. Super cool how it can keep driving with just the sun.
@sam0Another daily Shad :shad: log! Had an awesome Texas Instruments workshop. Used the handheld calculator to code lights :party-dinosaur:, music 🎵, and a rover robot to draw 🎨. Programmed it to play :rickroll: and drew a Sine wave! Also discovered this smart garbage can in University of Calgary campus. It uses CV to tell you where trash should go as well as an interactive trivia game, supa cool!
@sarahcha0trying out arduino nano BLE 33!! it’s really cool :)
@sam0Was messing around on Figma :figma:
This is a cool sticker design ;p
@ZeroQL0#w-of-the-day day 179
behold, my flag submission(s) for outernet
The color scheme is mainly from the outernet website along with the base color of the Vermont flag. With the iconic hack club flag soaring above the mountains indicating their takeover of the northeast kingdom
I mainly followed CGP grey's state flag video rules and tbh it looks pretty cool, might try a few different designs tomorrow.
@sam0Haxidraw (#haxidraw-development) is so cool!
Made a polygon drawer which centres the polygon with constant diameter. Seeing math work in real time art is awesome ✨@sam0GitHub Copilot Chat is quite cool and seems useful!
@thatrobotdev0While studying for my calc final, an Italian practice meetup came in to the Starbucks! Without knowing a lick of Italian I met a lot of cool people and figured out that I could understand like 40% of what they were saying because of how similar Italian was to Spanish. Maybe I’ll learn some more Italian so I can continue making language friends 😁
@thatrobotdev0Okay I wanna code/hack on something cool every day of the summer if I can, so I’ll be sharing a lot more here!! I just finished preparing for our last Hack Club meeting for this year, and I’m so excited to celebrate our club members! Pictured here is my cool sister 😎
@arav0🔗 It was a little difficult figuring out what event people came from when they joined the slack.
But, gone are the days of pre-filling the welcome reason or sending them a DM.
As Angelhacks got a little closer, after talking with some people, I thought it would make more sense to have a new parameter on the join form that would keep track of where they came from, add them to the right channels automatically, and give them a chance to introduce themselves with the welcome reason.
For example, if you joined from hackclub.com/slack/?event=angelhacks, or something like hackclub.com/slack/?event=angelhacks-toronto or any future event, Toriel will check for the event name in it's transcript, and add you to #angelhacks, and so forth.
It was my first time working with :prisma: Prisma and some :nextjs: stuff , and I have to say they're both supper cool and fun to work with (well for the most part, this took me longer than I would like to admit :p)@Sameer0There are two phases that #bookworms go through, We buy a book for it's content or we buy a book for it's cover! But this book has both!
Its a must read!!
Ikigai!:peace-and-tranquility: 🕊️
@Sameer0Greetings,:beatsaber: fellow Hackers, Hack Clubbers & hardware wizards! It's Day 12 of WHW #hardware-party, and I come bearing exciting news from our winter wonderland drone project. After weeks of hard work, late nights, and endless cups of hot water (Did not have cocoa:sadge:), we've finally done it! Our drone is complete!!!:aussieparrot:
The drone has very cool attachments & features like a high-resolution camera and advanced sensors that can detect changes in temperature, humidity, and air pressure. It's highly adaptable and can fly in humid, fog, and terrain which is difficult to traverse! Along the road, we faced our fair share of difficulties, from debugging code to testing flight stability while being ill, but I overcame them all with the help of my trusty hot water and team spirit.
It was all worthwhile in the end. We have developed a drone that is not only useful but also a tonne of fun.
In the end, I would like to T:hackclub-slack:ANK @HackClubBank-U04SEGJ8WN5 for funding this project and @MelanieSmith for overseeing it, and @TanishqUpmanu-U04F0RWGARH for helping me so much! Now, let's raise a cup of hot water (cocoa for the rich people☕) to this fantastic journey of building a drone project and celebrating its end. This will be my last WHW post and #drone series. Thank you all for supporting! I'll see you all tomorrow! Bye, Goodnight!
PS : Gonna get into all the #44-74 stuff going around! Gotta solve those mysteries YK!
@lucaspotter0got a black unlabeled envelope so I figured it was either something cool or anthrax and hey! i'm not dead.
