Spring Of Making Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

Yep, that was easy. on the fly shader compilation done:

Refactored all my code into a class with better methods and less global vars, now it'll be easier to dynamically compile shaders and change uniforms during execution!

updated my taskbar

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/6d7f91f4-a595-49be-8f9f-33b6732234e3-image.png

After digging through Sprig’s schematics, figuring out the right CircuitPython libraries, and spending countless hours debugging errors in Thonny’s serial shell, I finally got my <https://github.com/Irtaza2009/Hackamon|Hackamon code> (submission to #C0809PN4TPE|

) running on an *Orpheus Pico* on *Sprig*

!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/e95c846f-45ca-4274-9d6f-9fbf6ad39081-dcab368c-a625-4df1-ae09-d0e06d50ec53.png

After digging through Sprig’s schematics, figuring out the right CircuitPython libraries, and spending countless hours debugging errors in Thonny’s serial shell, I finally got my Hackamon code (submission to #C0809PN4TPE|

) running on an *Orpheus Pico* on *Sprig*

!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/09c46917-8fd6-457e-820f-32fdba4385ce-f7a86fc1-2f62-4f7d-957d-a6b774cf4c5e.png

I have been doing this over the course of 2 days, but only now have I decided to post. I'm making a program that uses monte carlo simulations to find the best move in Battleship. UI attached below

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2702d606-b7fe-4b83-b294-f5bc99face6f-image.png

time to lock tf in for apush

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/99f927ca-80c4-4a5a-9509-db1054063291-img_2992.jpg

Short session - polished up other parts of the FCS and kept working on it - about half way thru diagram, next step is to add in control panels and FCS is done!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/c69ffbb0-d527-43dd-b607-919989ec698e-image.png

holy moly my code actually works

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/5d1f17c3-3134-42c5-81c6-cf5eb10238a2-image.png

worked on the flow..

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/c6551ca5-547c-4d67-9fcb-f56d43d3b4ad-image.png

thx ddg

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/221ff250-15c2-4ea5-9b01-c88e86836e93-image.png

New ui and stuff for rejections and promoting your ship!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7cf0816b-ff61-4694-9f9d-1dcf6e5b064d-image.png

My first time posting something here I found a vulnerability on a website and exploited it( Educationally, cmon i put disclaimers for fair use) It is a automation script for making it easier for someone to use it It works on exploiting a loophole left by the devs of the website, and that is NOT PUTTING limitations on their usage of resources. They didn't gave the consumer root access, but maybe it was not enough. The script, for ease of access does everything for you, you just need an alt gmail id and a monero wallet, and you are set for mining. !This project is provided for educational purposes only. The developer is not responsible for any misuse, consequences, damage, or violations resulting from the use of this code. Use at your own risk. Repo: github.com/AryanSLAYERRR/miner-automation

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/66953b76-623c-4517-bb4b-1e033e82c81a-5554129f-0f02-4f66-95ab-403769ebb7df.png

Doing competitive programming homework. I'm going to do more but I'm scared I'll forget to post after i finish the homework.

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/876f6447-6f93-4a4f-8a5f-75676a98d172-image.png

made vai.ploszukiwacz.hackclub.app cuz i was bored, also i am not paying 10$ for vyntr+

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/c9255af5-a88d-47f8-8471-47cbc64bb8f0-image.png

I've made color choosing work! You can now assign different preset colors to dots in Modulo, with a very satisfying UI. However, while doing this I think I broke the dot counting so I'm going to need to fix that tomorrow...

git.new/86dd4af

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/85fd9424-5dc3-4f00-bb8a-799354a78334-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/af8873d1-4268-42c0-a6a8-2f6a78569c4c-61b9362a-120b-4bae-94e9-931ebf317082.png

installed arch (btw) and made the wifi card in my laptop work finally

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/418df014-5ef7-4d56-ab3e-68e43098b7d3-image.png

Introducing SpendSmart. SpendSmart makes saving receipts and tracking your budget effortless with the power of AI. Unlike most receipt managers, SpendSmart requires only a photo of your receipt to log a new expense. It automatically extracts key information, categorizes purchases intelligently, and presents everything in a beautifully designed interface. Try now: testflight.apple.com/join/2hRcRhZJ

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/a19eba76-4717-468a-ba4b-a3154c5a812a-f5bac091-0153-4ba2-b8fb-d71c7d9ceaf7.png

For the past few months I've been looking out for an idea rather than building an actual product, did a lot of market research on a couple of ideas and also going through validation process by reaching out to potential users. I finally made my mind with social media scheduling tool that simplifies content creator process. One of the issue among content creators is that having to handle multiple different accounts to post the same context, so the tool basically allows you to seamlessly integrate all your social media accounts into one platform so that you can simultaneously post across these different platforms. This will save you time by reducing the time friction of manually jumping between all your different social media channels to post content. What do you guys think? Open to ideas and feedback!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/9737db8b-ea8c-4561-bca3-a4f2ff05c3b9-screenshot_2025-04-21_at_2.00.30___am.png

this looks sooooo clean

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2877caf6-ae41-4120-9481-ff2d9e78d1db-image.png

Nicky case hasn't shared her AGI wargame thingy yet, so I made one myself

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/caf23c53-8a29-454a-8684-25b3a49c6945-image.png

been kinda demotivated yesterday and today

but i made the current dot highlighted and since my code was getting messy i moved the dot into its own Svelte component - this'll make it much easier to add the dot logging feature tomorrow 👀 git.new/modulo-bb8c0b0

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/59ef96dd-d37a-48b6-b913-5c09cf4e9d28-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/494326cf-2766-473d-a8f2-f638db2415ea-3c928d1f-6f6b-4eb1-ab84-13d1f5b37a5a.png

Made a Bookmarklet for Hacklet! github.com/lucas11222/Lucas-11-Multi-Bookmarklet

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ab542d95-362e-4033-a9c3-c88e0e2c8a86-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/163a911e-182c-4a02-a34d-237e9fb9c40b-b5eddbfd-cced-4a3f-92ac-6bf95c4bcb58.png

AHHHH ok i see. I FORGOT TO REMOVE THE SYSTEMD LINE FROM THE DOCKER FILE.... so it's still install systemd and dbus, which are not even used atm

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/b73e1201-ed19-43c2-a1f6-b6414520c5c4-image.png

Nice. The Docker Image worked, but there's a teeny tiny problem here. THE IMAGE IS TOO BIG (imo). Maybe I should switch away from using virtual envs... A screenshot of me 'baking' the Docker Image!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/8a7f2c7a-4c0c-4128-80b6-59cff0c451b2-image.png

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!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7c9c8df2-0b97-4c3f-9727-6287ebdcae05-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/c5f6067b-b90b-4c84-927b-aa6f15a353c8-3f5d38bf-c6dc-43dc-beba-3277df7c516f.png

Working on subscription management for www.pybooks.com With Pybooks - you can generate python notebooks completely. Please reach out if you're interested, I'm running a lifetime discount currently.

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/cb7114f3-4eb0-4d7e-9211-149d82c6213c-cleanshot_2025-04-20_at_00.20.39_2x.png

came up with a basic idea for a new project

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/66c7b402-c98d-45e6-bca4-b8e378e6b3d0-image.png

Working on my bookmarklet for Hacklet. It will open a popup to ask a question to AI (ai.hackclub.com) and he can also execute code for you!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/90778155-9e08-415a-b24b-327ecdd640e5-_073166c6-ab54-48f5-88b1-60f1c8e17874_.png

Holy crap I finally got it working! GPU conversion of the thing I finished the other day. am gonna tidy up then do a proper post later tonight.

Released Hacklet, a bookmarklet YSWS!

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/4daad0ed-9758-40da-9dad-52ebdaa270cb-image.png

finally got the memory working and its detected now

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/05cae956-d630-4ffc-bb75-17fc7fcfbbef-image.png

Presenting the Lachlan Idea Generator: an analog portfolio turned idea generator where you have 3 wheels to spin, for tone, subject, & medium. I've seemingly made half the combinations as art projects & the other half sound plausible coming from me. It makes fun of how systematic, practical, & non-personally-attached my art is by reducing my projects to these core keywords, & re-systemizing them into this lime green contraption. I designed, 3D-printed, and spray-painted the shell

Today I worked on Nomen, nomen now is linked up to some actuary tables and you can now see names and how they are used across history, across the country and see how many people have your name that are currently alive today! Repo: github.com/aramshiva/nomen

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/107ac180-88e0-4469-8d6e-2e5ffb09b924-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/f91e7d95-61ec-4833-872f-20aa7a15edbe-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/891074f5-1ff7-40f0-b49b-955205b9f870-b27fa178-f597-4716-b622-1bf7f198fcf9.jpeg

Well, that was a nightmare. I have spent the last hour and a half debugging what turned out to be a single line of code, but other than that, today i have started work on the gpu conversion of my walkers thingy. Basic rundown of how it works. I store the data for each walker in a texture, I keep their position and time alive, but not much else. In my case, I store the x position in the top left of an image, (see below), encoded as a 32 bit float (using all four channels because webgl 1.0 only supports 8 bit color channels), the top right keeps the y position. In the bottom left, I keep the time alive (in frames) in the r channel, and whether to render or not (as a bool, 0 or 1) in the g channel. The bottom right is at this point unused. Each frame, I take the previous's frames texture, and render over top of it, updating using a fragment shader (which is not yet written

) Then, I pass that texture to another vertex shader, which generates a bunch of points based of of each pixel in the texture. In theory, its super easy, but in practice... not so much. Encoding the float over the four color channels was not fun, as I kept getting a normal distribution of points even when the initial texture was completely random (and uniform, I checked). I spent a couple hours trying to work that one out only to discover I hadn't unbound one of the webgl globals, so that was fun. Calculating the uv coordinates based only on the point index was ok, but implementing a ping pong frame buffer for the texture update frag shader was a bit tricky. Tomorrow I'll try and get this working, so I've got them functional and moving. Below: Computed texture Rendered walkers (from computed texture) Colored renderered walkers (r: posx, g:posy, b:index)

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/0d21f5d3-a7a8-490d-b894-d738458ce246-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7363a887-6d98-4155-b47d-4b2fc7fa7395-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ef87b54f-0944-4362-b9e4-e9529f4ff701-image.png

I added 2 new icons to my pages, and I used Jekyll to easily add them and the footer to all pages necessary! 😄. The back arrow took 2 hours cuz it was overlapping

.

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/0c61d67b-438c-4034-9e6a-8ad5b25722cd-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/a0da7737-90fe-4007-965d-b9c61a93ce83-image.png

Made a cool blueprint for the PokéDeck using OnShape! (inspired by Inky)

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/066381d2-e4d7-480c-849f-bbd1e636db64-pokedeck_drawing_v1.png

I may or may not have made the text too large (and also not working on my app for a few days)

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/a44e189c-b11d-4457-9ea7-e5022384bb5f-img_4310.png

Modulo's going well! Only the dots that have passed are highlighted, using a library called date-fns to help me with the calculations. I took the image at 2:54 and 54 dots are highlighted! Next I need to figure out why sometimes it's off-by-one... maybe timezones? git.new/modulo-2fee8e7

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/8e6a0dcc-6e43-4db9-89aa-63f44f5af3db-image.png

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/27e9a03c-458c-489a-82b0-f4e62925810c-e1fe4e07-2f6d-4c9d-ab0a-bb1be6bc076a.png

today thanks to the help of @Amber , marketplace got migrated to being a private repo and now password based for beta testing, not a lot added tho.

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/4a4d1686-44aa-4fc0-99c7-e767f0742c60-image.png

Currently working on a non-systemd enabled Fedora 42 CoreOS container image with RPi Web Shell built-in! Not gonna bake and export the image because last time it crashed my entire Pi (it's a Pi 5 with 8g of RAM, but apparently the uSD cannot endure it...). However, i will put the completed Dockerfile on the repo! THATS WHY I NEED SSD ASSESORIES!!!

Here's a not-so-good older image (Fedora 41)

https://scrapbook-into-the-redwoods.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/44903a2d-3366-493a-85ec-a8cef59a4210-image.png

It's a pixel art of Commander Video from Super Meat Boy. I've made a small Python port of Replicube. A game about completing shaders puzzle in Lua. Go check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube