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day 179/180? • programmable badge(probably the closet I'll ever get to doing hardware) we'll get doom on there someday(and maybe eventually gta6)👍 • it's so hot 😞 • finally done with school tests!! • also ARTFIGHT!! if anyone attacks me I'll gladly revenge eheheh 😈

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3 June 2026, Wednesday, Day 154/365. Miercoles. --- Today, 22:50 • Sleep • First class cancelled. • Turns out 2nd class also cancelled • I could've come to school 3 HOURS LATER if the school did its job • soldering at school is a mess thx john last solderer • completely oxidised tip :pf: • 2 people ask for a portfolio uhh • New pfp! no more bisexual color cat ig • hey astro starlight works with normal astro now • I am cooked • My scrapbook posts have made it to google's front page News: • If someone submitted aliens.gov to a ysws, I hope all reviewers reject it immediately • Canberra rains later at night • Zach Latta I want to cheese can now be seen by outsiders. Enjoyment: 4/10 Productivity: 4/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: yes 2. Art: uhhh 3. Documentation: this *418 more days.*

Manana, tiene una examen Espanol escribir, y soy es muy frito

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okay but what if i revived this on day 112? okay big update not much has happened except for a few emotional problems i got NOTHING done except make a linux-wallpaperengine gui for MY specific rice (as well as for hyprpaper/awww/swww users) at github.com/kaemori/motionpaper i also tried making an ai for ultrakill, failed, got an idea for a second iteration but never did it... +1 to dead projects list (count: 17) tried to make an extremely compact way to store a minecraft-like world, ended up with quite the elegant solution, but gave up half way trying to project it... +1 to dead projects list (count: 18) went to audition for the school concert, played the drums so well even one of the teacher in charge (who never spoke once in the 7 other groups we watched) told me my drumming was excellent!!! i got an oculus quest 2 for a bargain and i can finally be a silly animal on the internet. the pipeline shall grow one of my friends apparently has like an infinite hardware stash or something and i left his room with +2 microbits, +1 arduino uno, +1 arduino mega, +1 small oled screen, +1 whatever i lost count i pissed off 3 people i learnt that i may or may not have bpd PHYSICS IS CONSUMING ME ALIVE OH MY GOD im actually getting started on my LABMAPS project i learnt RUST (just a bit) i got a second monitor and last but not least silly goober (vrchat my beloved) p.s. i think im actually going to post daily now. i know this because for every day i miss without a valid reason i owe jay one (1) can of redbull

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22 April 2026, Wednesday, Day 112/365. Miercoles. (Today) --- 8 PM • Slept earlier, still tired. • #C0AN4KKE3U2 is ever chaotic. • School day with too many things happening ◦ Realised I am very unfocused, moving between Slack, metabolism catalyis & the KFC $10 for 10 wings thing • Inhale toxic solder fumes about as much as a barbecue. ◦ I had 8 minutes left to learn how to solder because of people using the iron for most of the lunch ◦ I NEED to learn for Build Guild :hs: • I am not prepared Enjoyment: 3/10 Productivity: 4/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: No 2. Art: Yes, sketch of a character which is edited from a drawing I made on paper I photographed 3. Documentation: A bit (more actually) #3 femboy potential

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Day 100 / 365 It is day 100! 27% into the year. Lets do a slight recap! Major things i did: • Made most of my aces game • Bought hytale and got into modding immediately • Made a small roblox game with friends • Finally published one turret on steam • Attending a hackathon (hackclub campfire) • Made a game for ceiling seal ysws • Made a project ysws (which i was going to host tommorow but all my club members said they are out of town) Things that I still have left to do from my original list in the slack thread: • Get One Turret "Polish Update" out • Host a hackclub ysws (I mean a full scale online one) • Learn and do a bit more about hardware • Make a library/tool/extension to/for something Anyways for my actual day today. I went to court. Not for anything bad lol, I had to go to court to get my full drivers license! yippee! But actually it was kinda cool since we have always drove by the big courthouse frequently ever since i was a little kaplin86 and i finally got to see the inside!

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1. Just creating another app project: WaterCycle! (Yay) A brand new SwiftUI app to measure your water usage through a simple device which uses an ESP32 and a water flow sensor to calculate water flow and how much water is wasted (mentioned the word water too much). It uses a WiFi connection from the ESP32 and has habit and challenges functions to fix your excess water usage, with live data-pulling whenever you want. By the way my soldering iron died :sadge:

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made extremely detailed diagram for hardware thing that i might make one day

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Day 49/365: • Ordered soldering iron and pcb production for the macroepad! • Gonna do the campfire check-in either later today or tomorrow • Trust in the ISAT grind...TRUST... • Pic of my entire ISAT session yesterday

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Hello everyone My name is Saurabh ,17, from UP India ,I have build two award winning projects I m in class 12 ,I learned coding in school,still learning, I take help of AI to complete many things of projects, I m skilled in Arduino ide,C+,esp32,firebase,github and other microcontrollers like raspberry pi I am very optimistic about 3d printing and learning some of it I have deep interests in hardware cum software projects I m new to slack help me learn it ,I think I have found a good community already ❤️ CHECK OUT MY PROJECT AT GITHUB github.com/svlmp347-star/smart-grain-atm

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Working on a new robot now: Dum-E! A 6-DOF mini desktop robotic arm to help me out do things! Using MG90s and an Arduino Nano I managed to figure this out

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Day 48-50: • Temporarily moved to a hotel? • Celebrated new years with family • Had chipotle / brisket for the first time in 4 years • Reflowed cyberboard in the hotel lobby and got stared at (social anxiety fears me) • Learned how NOT to apply solder paste and kinda dented the stencil (I still don't know which way the nano stencil goes😔) • Inhaled fumes from that silicone hotplate (I should invest in a fume extractor:heavysob:) • Watched the new Avatar and got lost at the beginning

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finished pcb and schematic on my first ever hardware project(hackpad)

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My new MacOS app Drift Arduino Code Inspector is in review for the App Store!

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I just made an ultrasonic radar with an ultrasonic sensor for Arduino and an SG90. It records distance and changes in the environment with a quick table in Arduino IDE.

days 17 and 18 of 50 days to 2026! Today was a happy day! All the parts for my split keyboard finally arrived and I got to assemble it! I somehow managed to only desolder 4 caps with my fat fingers when soldering the header pins on but thankfully after removing them completely the boards still work just fine. Yesterday and today I also did a bunch of work in my homelab migrating things over to my oracle server and just generally tidying things up. My homelab is slowly nixifying which I'm very happy about :)

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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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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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ftc making me -(x^2) myself 3d printing and bambustudio are really cool, i rly hope i can get my own 3d printer soon (maybe thru construct 👀 ) i started making the devboard for blueprint, still havent asked my parents about prototype 😞 im going to sleep early today (11pm) english class is wayyyy too much effort 😧 :yawning_face: also yesterday’s scrapbook was so important it deserved to be posted twice fr (still no soldering iron, hopefully by tuesday 🤞 ) also rip hackclub slack for 2 days, so ill have to post scrapbook from the website

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11/50 (7/45): • Made small changes to the personal website • Solder a PCB for the first time :earthquakyeyes:, I messed up the first time, but with the help of my friend i think i nailed it almost • got a haircut • played val for a bit asw

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Homemade PCB :cursed_eyebrows: There's only buttons on it so I'm gonna glue half pin and solder the other half

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Day 6/50 (2/45): HOLLLY PHYSICS WENT SOO WELL, but i have english tomorrow :ms-weary:, finished most of it, js a bit more left, and gonna do a bit of maths today asw 👍 Also i went through my PcB schematics, lined up everything for tomorrow for soldering, bought a few capacitors

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:hc-bw-dither: Day 2/50: (Yesterday - yes i forget to send updates) • Took off from school :woooo: • Looked into the Steam new hardware! • Did English and Math for exams • Made the 3d models using :fusion360: (i hate:onshape:) • Did Biology and more English • Slept late :3kcursed: • No GitHub activity for today

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:50days: *day 3/50* still sick, but I did manage to add K.K. Slider songs to tanuki! you can now select the "k.k. slider" game, and you'll get a new button allowing you to skip a song. there's also a new "random" option which shuffles through tracks from every game!

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:50days: *day 2/50* today was a smaller day since i'm sick (why is everyone else getting sick too???) but I did manage to make tanuki save the selected game to a persistent store! i had to add quite a lot of checks and some workarounds for Svelte not marking things accessed in await as dependencies (why??), but it does work! here's some of the code, ignore the typescript errors :pf:

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:winter-hardware-wonderland: Day one of 50 days till 2026! I wasn't able to get a ton of work done on my main goals but I did some work on registering from spring classes and got a new headshot! I tweaked my github readme a bit to look a bit better and updated my website with a new code block about me as well as giving it the ability to display hackclub emojis through cachet inspired by @Natey');DROPTABLEStudents;-- ! I also got the grant for my split keyboard thyme (thank you @TaranEntitytheIdiotEntity :blahaj-heart:) and started ordering the parts for that! I have almost everything ordered now except for machine pins and JLC getting mad about my board (they are saying its two designs in one which I kind of get? they only want to charge me $5 more though so thats good). I made a bit of progress on internship searching; I found a company called Vertiv which is quite close to where I live and I'm looking at applying for their computer engineering intern role. They seem like quite a neat company and they make products for monitoring data centers as far as I can tell.

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hello! realized i haven't participated in my own event yet so here I am :P :50days: *DAY 1/50* today was a pretty chill day since I spent time prepping for my dad's birthday and running this event, but I did manage to get some work done on Tanuki! i've added rain sounds with its own slider, fixed bugs, and made a few UI tweaks.

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Hey guys, I am working on/researching a software/hardware hybrid which works in helping better, safer and greener navigation for maritime explorations. I have run some sims and got some promising results but don't know what to do with this(I'm stuck in a phase idk how to get out of). What do I do???(I added Images of my results and a below is a short summary of my idea) The project is about building a next-gen navigation + communication system for underwater exploration. Instead of relying fully on sonar (which hurts marine life) or light (which fails in turbid water), it mixes both in a hybrid hive system. Small bots form a local swarm that communicates with each other using low-impact signals (pulsed blue/green light, occasional short acoustic chirps). They share positioning data, cooperate to map, and compress their raw sensor info. Only one bot or buoy takes responsibility for long-range communication with satellites or surface networks. That keeps emissions low, power use efficient, and the environment safer.

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1 h at a junkyard, and this is what I collected so far for my AURA (artificial User Recognition Access) project :

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working on a arduino powered pocket idle game using a 1.3” screen and a rotary encoder

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pcbs for frogpad came!!!!!!! yayayay soldering and 3d print up next github.com/themagicfrog/frogpad

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Alright so received my pincil today, and i forgot the actual solder... to solder my pcb... decided to try to make the keyboard anyway, seems like iit doesnt work, at least the firmware i flashed actually worked also did more research and decided to use rgfw since it only uses software rendering (i think?) which makes it use less then 50mb (41mb) for the optimise ysws, kinda sad i couldnt figure out how to turn on software rendering on the other libraries but whatever, ii gotta code something now!

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My solder submission arrived! Now, just waiting for the kit

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A countdown timer till the end of summer for me 😭 Hardware project, though!

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Found the tags :yay: They're here if anyone's interested: github.com/hackclub/scrapbook/blob/main/apps/slack-bot/src/lib/emojiKeywords.js yay OSF hooray arrived bin raccoon draw art paint wrote slack pcb figma 3d print covid singapore canada india space sleep hardware roshan sampoder vs code vscode woo hoo celebrate cooking bday pumpkin fall thanksgiving christmas santa snow snowing snowman vercel sunrise sunset google football car driving bank shopping list github twitter bot robot robotics minecraft game npm solder instagram observable js python swift golang rust deno blender salad adobe photoshop inktober storm rain dino school backpack linux hacktober studying react apple cat dog code autumn Happy Birthday Zach debate next.js nextjs movie halloween pizza scrappy bike Big Sur zoom ship macbook guitar complain fight cricket vim docker cake notion fedora replit mask leap discord /z postgres gatsby prisma graphql product hunt java repl.it rick roll BrainDUMP firefox vivaldi ABCO-1 nix ts zephyr summer plane train bus bug debug awesome chart boba bubble tea spotify repair cow doge shibe dogecoin blockchain ticket homework hw piano orpheus chess pr pull request bread nft hns wahoo aoc advent svelte cold tailwind tailwindcss c squaresupply gamelab annoying site redwood homebrew stickers club think thinking cool science research biology brain science fiction sci-fi mexico food sad galaxy plant picture photography assemble sprig laser music 10daysinpublic hardware party ipfs the orpheus show orpheus show podcast quest puzzmo purplebubble summit apple vision nest #C0M8PUPU6| #C6C026NHJ| #CJ1UVDF7E| #CBX54ACPJ| #C02EWM09ACE| #CCW6Q86UF| #C90686D0T| #C0131FX5K98| #C0166QHR0HG| #C012LPZUAPR| #C14D3AQTT| #CD543U2UD| #CDDMDRJUA| #CDLBHGUQN| #CDJV1CXC2| #C01NQTDFUR5| #C02TWKX227J| #C0P5NE354| #C02UN35M7LG| #C02EWM09ACE| #C0168BR5PDE| #CDJMS683D| #CGVCSNLAJ| #C07Q8S73B45| #C06CHS2D05Q|

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Filled out the final solder form, and also finally proved my identity for hack club. Also, hosted a friend's summer of making project for them (globalclicker.zakkbob.dev github.com/filiwal/global-clicker )

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Fixed the potentiometer in my solder submission, and ordered my Bakebuild thing from JLCPCB! github.com/zakkbob/solderfish

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My solder ship finally got accepted/approved :yay: .

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Have been trying to learn PCB design for the past two days and this is what I achieved and submitted to solder:

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Day 3: I procrastinated on the neighborhood project again 😔 Yesterday was pretty packed tho. I did more research into Meshtastic nodes and decided to go with Femtofox! Their hardware looks solid, but sadly they’ve got this proprietary “Pro” edition that has extra features compared to the open-source one. Tbh I wouldn’t mind supporting them and paying for the hardware, but they’re out of stock 😭 The difference isn’t that huge though, so I’ll probably just roll with the free version and pay for PCB manufacturing myself. I also got an automatic water dispenser for my cat recently, and it’s really annoying. It allows only a maximum of one water refill every 6 hours (drains the old water and pumps in fresh), but the waste bin fills up in just 2 days... For something that’s supposed to be convenient, it’s kina not 💀 My first idea was to just manually power it on, press the “refresh” touch button, and turn it back off. But that defeats the entire point, it would honestly be faster to just dump out a normal water bowl and refill it by hand.. So I cracked the device open, soldered a wire to the capacitive pad that triggers the manual refill, and tested it by shorting to GND, and it worked! Now I just need to hook up a microcontroller to simulate that GND trigger, and maybe add a relay or transistor inline with the battery to control the whole thing automatically :-)

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Day 2: I didn’t get much work done on the neighborhood project today. Instead, I spent my morning recording a devlog video. Then, I helped a friend with his Proxmox container setup and did some maintenance on my home lab. After that, I got a bit distracted and placed an order on JLCPCB to manufacture my old project from The Trail. I broke mine during the hike, and I wanted to show my parents what I built and keep it as a souvenir. 👀 Then, I got inspired to run a local Meshtastic node in my town and connect with another friend. I’m going to meet with him tomorrow and give him the hardware since I already have some leftover from the early prototyping of my Trail project. I don’t think I’ve shared pictures of my home lab yet, so here they are! (I took them with Project Indigo, my new favorite camera app I discovered today.)

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Restarting my scrapbook streak! Day 1: So today I continued working on my neighborhood project. I've coded for another 4 hours today after taking a week-long break. so now I’ve clocked in 12 hours in total! I’ve made some great progress today. I've implemented the login/registration API and the JWT auth token issuing with a refresh token. I’ve also added custom GraphQL auth directive and token validation. Tomorrow, I’ll start working on the frontend. I’ll be building a simple login and register page, and a 'hello world' dashboard when you’re logged in. I’ll also need to implement token refresh and rotation on the backend side. I’ve also started documenting all my current and previous hardware/tinkering projects in my journal. I’m hoping to publish them on my personal website (which is still in progress). I never journal anything so all my work from when I was 10-17 years old has kind of gotten lost ;p

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trying to get my circuit for solder to work.

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working on a shopping list app with collaborators(android and web release coming soon!)

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I made a PCB for the first time :D I've always wanted to make one before but it's always felt really scary and complicated to me but yesterday I decided to give it a try and do something for solder to learn how to make one and for something I'm hoping to do later this month. It's a pretty simple circuit that basically lights up an led when you press the button. It doesn't do much but I'm really proud that I was actually able to make something and that it theoretically works. Need to decide what I'm going to actually make for solder though :pf:

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solder prototype v2

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solder prototype :3

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(Couldnt get a new photo 😭) worked more on my prototype (and soldering skills!!)

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Finally got my soldering stuff so i took out the prototype of my project, rewired it and schtuff. Awesome sauce!!

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