Happy Ping Sock Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

been working on a new personal website! i've been setting a few challenges for myself recently, one of them is to ride all of the train operators in the UK (and metro systems) so i've been working on adding a challenge page for it to my website. i'm no web designer or developer at all, but i'm happy with how it looks the thing that's the most unique about this website though isn't the challenges, but what powers it. i decided to write it in

Vapor for

Swift! Vapor is kind of like

Ruby on Rails but for Swift and it's been really nice to work with. repo is at github.com/transcental/website if you wanna take a look, ~beta site is deploying, i'll add a link when it deploys because it takes a looooong time (~~15 minutes)~~ beta site is up at beta.transcental.dev!

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I completed my first full PCB assembly using a PCB I made. The PCB I created it a re-creation of the stock one used for my 3D Printer that I added some new ports/connectors for, all without the original PCB files. I used both leaded solder and bismuth solder paste, this was my first time using solder paste and first time working with bismuth, I found bismuth's melting point to be excruciatingly low since the 4-layer PCB had so much thermal mass. Here are some photos I took along the way, lmk if anyone has questions.

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Day 55 of #100-days-in-public. Today I had some free time and was able to get the video I took yesterday of the eclipse on a drone to slack. A bit of context if you watch the video, I was in a parking lot of sorts with lots of people around. There are some nice folk next to us with little kids which you may hear in the background. All the audio is coming from where the controller is and the camera was ~300 feet above it up in the air. (see thread for video, as scrappy does not like how large it is) I also worked on cleaning up my PCB design with some helpful observations from @AtanasAtanasov. As I went to export the design to try to get a price estimation I found lots of design rule violations that I made. Tomorrow I am going to take a closer look to see what I need to resolve.

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every morning in the life of a community game designer for hack club

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