Fire Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

Hi! I'm shubhayu banerjee and I'm currently working on systems to translate sign language for the deaf in both online and offline scenarios!! If anyone is interested, i could dm/post my website so you could learn more.

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again ran out of time to write much, but here are some screenshots submitted design review for devboard, hopefully i qual for prototype im at 75% rn

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day 21!: coded blood manipulatiion abiltites

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I made a PCB ornament! The LEDs change colors :blobhypedance:

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Today I spent some time finishing up SSAO (there were still a few bugs), and added FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing). I might also add SMAA as an alternative in the future but I really want to move on to some more interesting stuff now (the acronyms alone are making me brain dead). I uploaded some screenshots, though the AA isn't that noticeable because of the compression.

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Day 18/50: • Made a projects page for my personal website - it still needs some work though. • Finally, FINALLY got Milkyway Pets working for macOS (I hope - I haven't been able to confirm whether it works) • Practiced clarinet for ~30-35 minutes. It's the first time I've played since I got sick, but I really want to make a habit of practicing most days. • Went out and practiced driving in the evening - I felt a lot more confident that last time (actually, less terrified might be more accurate) • Realised that I'd lost my 33-day Anki streak :noooovanish: After spending my last month with exams looming over my shoulder, it feels so weird to have all this time to myself. I still want to manage my time better than I have in the past, and avoid spending too much time on YT and Slack - hopefully these goals can be reminders for future me.

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:50days: Day 18 of 50, I: • woke up kind of early but then went back to sleep because I originally went to sleep on a sofa then went to sleep upstairs on my actual bed :sleeping_accommodation: • worked on my high school application that just happens to have the same types of questions as @:jollyroger182:'s COLLEGE application :job-application: • went to visit someone's house for 5 hours, where I played 10 rounds of rummy and won the overall game (winning 3 rounds) :aces: • didn't have time (or really a need) to code since I already have more than 10 hours in siege (see below) :siege: • got 0 contributions on GitHub :githubparrot: • reached a Duolingo streak of 814 days :duo-knife:

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Finally added SSAO to my OpenGL renderer! (which was the whole point of setting up a deferred renderer). It's a subtle effect, but it definitely improves the depth perception of the scene and now runs acceptably fast.

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I made an Arduino-based virtual pet that rewards good habits! The code and CAD file is here. Video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJczs0nVYSQ

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just some more progress on my game about sleep paralysis (im getting there..)

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made this library a little while ago but never officially "shipped" it here do you play the electric guitar or bass? are you a fan of reverse engineering and/or (music) hardware hacking? if so, my new venture, Bender, might be interesting to you: Aiming to liberate proprietary music hardware through protocol reverse engineering, my first project in this space, LtAmp.py, serves to enable interfacing with the LT-series amps produced by a certain giutar manufacturer that rhymes with Bender and names their products after horses. As of now, the library: • is fully MIT-licensed, source-available~~, and star-able~~ on GitHub • is installable through pip and listed on PyPI (the python package index) • supports almost all basic functions including preset management, footswitch slot configuration, and metadata • enables the creation of other apps and tools such as CLIs, alternative GUIs, and augmentation platforms • is fully tested with the LT25 model (but should work with others such as 40-100 and Rumble) • is the first non-.NET solution for connecting to this series of amps (that I know of) If you're at all interested in this project or anything else I'm planning at Bender, please leave a star (⭐), follow the GitHub org, or reply/DM/issue with suggestions, questions, ideas (I'd be thrilled to chat about anything but music tech excites me a lot!)

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hello!! last week I made a super mario maker inspired game for siege, called Goblin Maker! you can build and share levels, and browse levels made by other people! Github: github.com/ingobeans/goblin-maker Itch: gnarmi.itch.io/goblin-maker the game was written in rust, but the server is a flask app hosted on Nest. entire project took about 35 hours :> i'd love it if you checked it out (you can play in your browser)! make some levels! thanks <3

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learning art! or logo design, idk

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so much work, barely got to work on hc stuff yesterday i was able to figure out how to add neopixels so that they shined thru the pcb mostly worked on a school project 5 hours of sleep again ;-;

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wazaaaa Just spawned, tired from volunteering all days but I got good feedback from my choreography so that was fun :D doing homework right now, will sleep. Attached is a costume I wore for a play.

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i was testing :p

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was bored so I did a bit of photo editing

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some colorgraded images I edited over the past week (dump)

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i drawed this 8 years ago , so many memories....

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Drew this on a whiteboard today

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climbed a roof for this

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finally making some progress on my game about sleep paralysis

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Ever wanted to use multiple :wakatime-dark: WakaTime instances (eg. using both Hackatime and WakaTime at the same time) but waka-relay was just too hard to use? Worry no more! I just finished working on my new project, timesplit that aims to make that much easier! :3 :github: Repo: github.com/ImShyMike/timesplit (and if you do decide to use it, you should add rustytime to the list of server urls ;) - more info about it can be found on it's ship post)

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Presenting a possible new approach to AI in Košice

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studying an artstyle by an artist i like (ft hannibal)

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project 1 (oct 5 to oct 18) - my personal website getting a much needed revamp day 6 - was supposed to post yesterday but got caught up in fd work 😭 all i did was add the embed as seen in v1peridae.me :heavysob: i've been working on waht im gonna teach meghana today! i think im ready to ship the site then finish up working on CursedOS (rust os) !

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Good morning everyone! (oh shoot, it's actually 4pm here rn... it still feels like morning lol) Yesterday Luca ( @Slloom ) and I finished the boba drops workshop with our club! (Almost) everyone was able to submit, but hopefully everyone else will be able to submit it within a few days. Shoutout Natalie (@?) who went above and beyond on her website and kept adding to it in between meetings! Check it out here! I think Luca and I will plan to do swirl in the next few meetings, and then maybe we'll start to introduce limited time YSWSs. I've made some more updates to my personal website, mostly aesthetic. I moved The Ghost to a secondary page so the main page can be more of an intro. I've got a small About Me, some links, and a projects section. I want to set that bit up like the SoM projects page: image, description, links, etc. but I'm not sure how... Yet. Apart from that, I think I'll try to do Blueprint, since I never got to submit the project I made for Highway, but I may not get to it till after Nov 9 when I finish the play I'm part of, The Play That Goes Wrong. I'd like to do Moonshot, since I really enjoyed Juice, but my parents don't want me to go to any more travel HC events after Neighborhood (even though I wasn't there), which I get for safety reasons, but also I've found no other organization that does what HC does in terms of travel events. Maybe in a year or so, if HC implements enough safety policies and such to my parents satisfaction, I'll be able to go to another. We'll see. (If someone at HQ wants to hear what safety stuff, dm me, cuz I'm sure other parents would want them as well) Anyways, on a completely separate note, Everyone keeps mishearing "Hack Club" as "Hat Club" so I wonder if we should rename the club from a very boring school-name-hack-club to The Mad Hackkers. What do you think?

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project 1 (oct 5 to oct 18) - my personal website getting a much needed revamp day 3 i had a test today so i didn't get to do much coding but i worked on the projects page a lil more + worked on some assets for the friends page. the project page has some cool vids linked to it :P and it's a little bit more interactive next step - finish contact page + figure out how to make about page more interactive + figure out where friends page will go

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Logo design

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you might not see it, but these are dynamically generated on game launch for every registered color and wood type

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Luca ( @Slloom ) and I hosted our first ever Hack Club meeting on 9/25! We had way more interest than we expected - 8 people! We handed out snacks and stickers, and then had everyone get Github, VS Code, Slack, and generally get set up to code. Then on 9/30 we hosted a Boba Drops Workshop, and had even more people come - 10! Almost everyone finished the workshop in the time they could stay for (1-2 hours). It was super rewarding to see people who had literally never touched coding in their lives code a website they were proud of! There were a few who themed their websites around their favorite video games, and another kept working on it after and came up to me yesterday with a second page with lots of poetry :) It was cool to see how what they were passionate about leaked into what hopefully will become a new passion! Doing the Boba Drops workshop reminded me that I have a website that I should work on, but so far I've only made minor changes (I've been really busy with schoolwork and I'm in the school play!), so I'll save an update on that for another time. Keep an eye out for a post on 10/10 when we do demos of the websites people made!

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I got to cnc something today

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a couple sprites and rough cgs for my daydream visual novel!

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magma random avatar

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magma Brandon :drgn_cool:

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drew this when deltarune ch3-4 released

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Added colors to markers of my map

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12/365: • Book: draw lines in this specific patern • Time: 10-20mins • Yap: litraly pulled out all of my pens for this one :xxdd:

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adding japanese

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9/365: • Book: what's in the pot • Time: 10min • Yap: i got no time i got no time to live.. anyways enough with the lyrics so these few are low effort since i been stressing my ass off (school started and i joined like 2 more ysws ;-;) plus been partying alot :xxdd:

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8/365: • Book: draw what hides behind the grass • time: 3min • Yap: literally 0 motivation so i pulled up refrence for first time and speedrun sketched as i am tierd from first school week :xxdd:

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started to learn kicad and made a small 3x4 macropad pcb for now, disclaimer - didnt start today, started like 2 days ago

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JAMS Dev Drafts is a crazy idea I've had for a while: a site you where can make pixel art AND music tracks. It's supposed to be a good tool for game developers (although it can be multi purpose and used by anyone, because I'm not planning on restricting anything). So, this is what the start of JAMS Dev Drafts looks like:

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:github: Have you ever wanted to show everyone your insane hackatime stats on your Github profile? If so then check ouy this new project i made! Hackatime Heatmap generates an SVG that can be used to flex your coding time to your friends! github.com/ImShyMike/hackatime-heatmap

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:wakatime: Ever wanted to check someone's hackatime stats? Now you can! Simply grab their slack (or hackatime) ID and enter it into Hacka_stats_! :woooo: It features a ton of graphs, charts and a heatmap to help you view all the details :D hackastats.pages.dev

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day 1 attempt 3 of me trying to restart my scrapbook so today i tried to learn go because i wanted to make a project using go, currently reading the go documentation/tutorials also brainstorming video ideas for the thing happening in #C0266FRGT|

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finally doesn't look like an absolute mess for H²'s 2nd routing session

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Made a cookie cutter design with OnShape 🙂

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