Robot Face Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

You ever wanted to politely tell people “dog” ain’t allowed in ur catty channel? Well I built a bot, just for you! @WordBAN ! All you gotta do is ping it, add to your channel, then run /ban-word dog and boom the bot will do your dirty work every time someone says “dog”. Check all the commands in Commands.md! Feel free to test it in #C093J69MP8X| ! summer.hackclub.com/projects/4807 Uptime is subjective to #C056WDR3MQR|. Feel free to ping me if it doesn’t work.

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Seeing the @/ ping prevention hack in help channels and how this could be made better, I decided to make @NoPing , a Slack bot which automatically converts all mentions with lookalike links that won’t ping. It’s very simple: /np before your message. It doesn’t work in threads for now (slash commands don’t work in threads); I’ll use some sort of composer (like the edit modal, which I’ve implemented) and a “Reply to this thread” shortcut. I intentionally made it work without databases (by using text checks before executing edit functions) which might backfire

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Day 3 of my new streak Today I deployed my slack bot shipped it in SoM just to see what would happen summer.hackclub.com/projects/8215 Now, just waiting on certification...

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day 2 • Did some chemistry revision (finally understand electrolysis now) • Started working on a silly slack bot summer.hackclub.com/projects/8215 (not useaable yet)

Hello I made an amazing little bot for National Weather Service alerts you can join the channel by going to the @NWSBot home or go directly to #C091FCVPADV| Bot: @undefined Channel: #C091FCVPADV| Source: Radar Indicated okay you got me, how did you know? Source (for eels): github.com/coopeeo/nws-slack-bot

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Just about finished with my combat robot. Tomorrow I plan on adding some TPU deflectors on the walls and prolly completing the design.

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Just shipped #C091PEQP7CJ|! It's like #C07UJMV9389| but for Summer of Making, and gives you updates for stock changes, new items and price reductions! I took a lot of what I learnt from High Seas Monitor and Arcade Monitor to make the codebase more maintainable and easy to hack on! •

happy-dom (dom library for nodejs/bun) is used to parse the som shop's html • 🚢 arktype (a library to validate the shape of types) is used for safe env vars, better intellisense, and to ensure that the scraping script isn't reporting false/undefined data because of a page change (it'll stop the script from running further and pinging people for false updates) •

sentry is used to monitor errors. since the bot does html scraping, it can be slightly fragile - sentry (to report errors) + arktype (to throw errors) help prevent that from happening •

jsx-slack lets you use jsx instead of json for block kit! while it doesn't use react, it helps keep your code a lot shorter and you get better intellisense. i use it for all the bot's messages and it's been a joy to use! •

bun to use typescript/tsx without a bundler + for superfast package management! code's at github.com/skyfallwastaken/som-monitor. dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.

Started working on the Slack bot component of Fork This Idea. This is a tool that helps you send project ideas out into the world as you chat and work in Slack. Follow along in #C08PCRXFN2E| on the Hack Club Slack, GitHub, and here!

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worked on my personal assistant discord bot!

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getting a bit more progress done for the thunder bot

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working on the #C06V2GEV3MY| submission bot :3

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very rough architecture for my upcoming discord bot with dash and no-code drag drop command builder : D

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Made a smart robot car guys!

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probly shoulda posted this when it was still in action but the first thing i did when i got back from china was make a tiny slack bot to randomize my profile picture every 30 minutes to a random photo i took while i was there! code @ github.com/gusruben/slack-pfp includes a setup guide if anyone else wants to do something similar!

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Updated the buttons size and the bottom layer layout again. Also added another button and made ground planes for both layers!

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hellooo scrapbook, its been quite a while, i think a whole month.... ive been super busy past couple of weeks but today i got some time to code something ive really been wanting to work on, its inspired by a bot amber made tho i cant really use my bank's API so i use my budgetting app for this

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Still working on the Wikipedia feature for my Python bot, which is now named Forte!

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I got Wikipedia working on my Python bot!

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got github.com/youkononame/bible-bot running 24/7 on nest

Footage from our robot’s new algae mech for FRC robotics!

Small ship from me 🚢 Introducing Activity Alerts! It's a bot that uses Slack's unofficial search API to find how many messages you sent on the Slack every day, then sends it to a channel of your choosing! (for me, it's #C0793T42XV4|.) It uses

Bun,

TypeScript,

Redis, and

Slack webhooks! It's also open source! github.com/SkyfallWasTaken/slack-activity-webhook

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Day 12 of #C045S4393CY| Added fun new messages the bot sends when prompted. The bot sends it on "stat sendfun" lol

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day 7 of #C045S4393CY| today I worked on makeing a slack bot(it didn't like to work) and worked a tiny bit on my printer. Slack bot no want to work

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Day 10 of #C045S4393CY|! I shipped a bot called at-channel - if you've ever wanted to do a @.channel ping but don't have admin on Slack, this bot lets you do that - and as a bonus, replying in the thread won't mention everyone :) To get started, just run /channel to do a @.channel ping, or /here to do a @.here ping! (if you're in a private channel, you'll first need to add @at-channel )

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Today I worked on a prototype for a basic 2D robot simulator for my robotics team. The idea is that we can use it to train a neural network using a genetic algorithm. Most of my time today was spent trying to work out how to simulate the differential drive of our robot (1 set of wheels on either side), and getting the rest of the physics to work. It uses pygame and pymunk for now, but I might switch to c++ and SFML (or raylib or something) if it's not fast enough. Next is a system for the sensor inputs and then the neural network!

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Day 8 of #C045S4393CY|, added error validation and logs to check if things were working, got stuff up and running on my big server that i have so now my bot is officially hosted using discord, discord.py and a week of time

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Day 4 of #C045S4393CY| made thing where the player can kill the plant and also made the discord bot cleaned up and #C0M8PUPU6| ed it with @Sunny yay! finally done with sock

today: spent all day on my robotics homework + a couple of athena prep stuff like ordering chocolates

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day 4 of #C045S4393CY| Testing is going well, implemented a DM system so that the bot can dm the users on discord, this was pretty hard in python bc of how garbage discord.py is but i made it work out in the end!

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day 2/15 of #C045S4393CY| Today i made a thing to censor bad words on my discord bot by finding a huge dataset of bad words on github and applying it so it removes a level when you swear, also made it so negative levels are impossible.

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bot converts currency

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Day 1/15 for #C045S4393CY| working on #C088UF12N1Z| and #C08DPRYMWF8|, i made part of my discord bot today that detects cuss words and lowers your level based on the amount of times you use it. For #C088UF12N1Z|, made ant nest as obstacles and other stuff. Same image as Sunny cuz we both made that same discord bot.

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Day 1/15 of #C045S4393CY| Today, I added a emoji detector and more commands to my discord bot that im working on with @Shree . I built more commands and made a button work with a fancy UI and made all the users emojis store to a list in which they can see through a command. Solid work time.

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day 1 of #C045S4393CY|! today i wasn't able to work on my hackpad because of robotics but i did cad a plate for the robot!

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Been working on my HCB grant bot more! Now it has fuzzy organisation & merchant category searches along with some backend work - this is actually a quite tidy codebase, probably my best yet for a slack app check it out here if you want: github.com/transcental/SlackHCBGranter

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i added cdn stats for the #C016DEDUL87| bot, elysia

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Gary Bot

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heyy guys I've made a bot to make 'time.cs50.io' links directly from slack; you can use it by either using create a event link shortcut or by running /createeventtimelink cmd, and drop what you think should be implemented differently or added. Also, I've some TODOs like: • Drop the link in thread if the shortcut used there.. • Nd, if you use the global shortcut, you'll get the link shown in the next modal popup instead of sending them in DMs. • and also logging them somewhere to show them in the home tab and it is named timesaber; @ttt

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made free games bot

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1. finally figured out what was not making sense in rust form this amazing vid. my notes are all over the place for this so i will not be showing yall that

2. did some athena nbo emails + msgs 3. i had an idea, going in w/ impulsivity to make it happen (like i talked ab in my prev post)! 4. more robotics and we're back to DDE scrappy doesnt like when i have links only

so here's a pic of some code i wrote from what i learnt in rust tday

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I made a discord bot that uses AI to yapp about conversations!

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Today I let the bot from #C084XDD2GAG| run indefinitely

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Today I discovered all scrappy's reaction keywords yay, OSF, hooray, arrived, bin, raccoon, draw, art, paint, wrote, slack, pcb, onboard, circuit, kicad, easyeda, figma, 3d print, 3d printing, 3d printer, covid, singapore, canada, india, space, sleep, hardware, roshan, sampoder, vs code, vscode, woo hoo, celebrate, cooking, cooked, cook, birthday, bday, pumpkin, fall, thanksgiving, christmas, santa, snow, snowing, snowman, vercel, sunrise, sunset, google, soccer, football, car, driving, bank, shopping list, github, twitter, bot, robot, robotics, minecraft, game, npm, solder, soldering, arduino, instagram, observable, js, javascript, reactjs, python, swift, xcode, x code, swiftui, swift ui, golang, rust, deno, blender, salad, adobe, photoshop, inktober, storm, rain, dino, school, backpack, linux, hacktober, hacktoberfest, exams, exam, studying, studied, study, react, apple, cat, dog, code, hack, autumn, Happy Birthday Zach, debate, next.js, nextjs, movie, halloween, pizza, scrappy, cycle, 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, repl.it, replit, rick roll, BrainDUMP, firefox, vivaldi, ABCO-1, nix, nixos, nixpkgs, typescript, ts, zephyr, summer, plane, train, bus, bug, debug, debugging, awesome, graph, 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, redwoodjs, homebrew, stickers, club, think, thinking, cool, science, research, biology, brain, science fiction, sci-fi, mexico, food, sad, galaxy, plant, plants, picture, pictures, photography, assemble, sprig, laser, music, #C045S4393CY, 10daysinpublic, hardware party, hardware wonderland, hardware-party, days of making, winter hardware, winter, wonderland, whw, ipfs, the orpheus show, orpheus show, the orpheus podcast, orpheus podcast, podcast, quest, puzzmo, purple bubble, purplebubble, summit, summit vision, apple vision, nest.

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Worked on bot

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Today i first time realized how important using robots.txt file is. i had 10,000 api credits for my crypto project from coinmarketcap api but last night google bot started to crawl all of the coin details pages (each page counts as 3 credits ) and i have about 15,000 coins in my db. resulting to my api credits being expired in single night. now im learning how to write a robots.txt file

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Day 9: Refactored my discord bot planning on making it more general purpose

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debugging my bot

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Day 8: Created a discord roles bot

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