Ultrafastparrot Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

In May 2023, I have, for the first time, sponsored & organized a hackathon! 🎉 The event invited fellow students of all levels of mastery in computer science, and allowed participants at my school to form teams, make friends, innovate, win prizes, sharpen skills of all types (computer science, entrepreneurship, and beyond), and have a fun & memorable experience. 🎁 It was also a major personal goal for me that I am happy to have achieved before I graduate high school. :smiley-twemoji: :thumbsup-dino: Taking my past personal memories at hackathons I've attended, such as BetaNYC (March 2020) and Hack Club's Epoch Vermont (December 2022) :epoch: The 2-day-long McCown Hacks :mccownhacks: also made a great closing to the third year (2022-2023) of Gaynor McCown Hack Club :gaynormccown:, and an awesome milestone of my nearly complete high school career 🎓 , in which my passion for computer science was sparked! :gaynor-mccown-gradient: McCown Hacks website: McCownHacks.hackclub.com McCown Hacks 2023 (inaugural event/first year) website: 2023.McCownHacks.hackclub.com

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AngelHacks Toronto just finished, success! More info in #ship soon!!

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Today's workshop is awesome.

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JUST GOT SPRIG POSTERS!! I wasn't expecting it but that's a really surprise :)

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Selected as a mentor!

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HackUPC was amazing!! Got to work with a great team with diverse skills and had a lot of fun! Barcelona is beautiful! Check out our devpost: devpost.com/software/3d-tracking-from-acceleration!!

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Day 12 daily figma, created a fun Home Screen for Trivia Travel just a fun game idea I had Gpt come up with, where you answer questions based on where your traveling. Based the UI around the Home Screen for trivia crack

Day 9 of Figma, I ran out of time to finish adding a parallax scroll but will try another time

Today was a day 7 years on the making (Expect more pics as I get em)

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wahoo!! this uses a Go server running on my computer, which interfaces with the arduino to get nunchuck data (pings the arduino, which returns binary data via serial), & as a proof of concept runs an http server which is being called by a lil html/js app to display joystick position

starting to build my haxidraw! ill start a thread of my progress in #development-of-things-and-stuff :)

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Imagine if you could easily reach out to clubs in your area simply by glancing at a map and directly copying the emails. No need to imagine. Opt-in & help us build @ #clubs-directory (This was a fun feature to implement. We're using React-Leaflet.) (+ you can even Search on Maps, but this feature isn't fully fleshed out yet)

I let EasyEDA's autorouter do it's thing and cut the PCB design time from 2-4ish hours to like 10mins

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multi-select for #clubs-directory :partyparrot:

figma-ing

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TestWiz Backend server deployed! :ultrafastparrot:

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I started working on a new game called "Trade Secrets" ... > A game of improv, heckling, rip-offs, and murder. ... Basically, this is a game heavily inspired by www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Gaming-C0900-Snake-Game/dp/B01HH0NTOE, but modified so I don't accidentally steal cards. What a doozy! Follow along with the (FLOSS) development at github.com/VelocityDesign/trade-secrets

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hack oc!

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Just made a little c++ raycasting engine using SFML to start learning the language!

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🔗 It was a little difficult figuring out what event people came from when they joined the slack. But, gone are the days of pre-filling the welcome reason or sending them a DM. As Angelhacks got a little closer, after talking with some people, I thought it would make more sense to have a new parameter on the join form that would keep track of where they came from, add them to the right channels automatically, and give them a chance to introduce themselves with the welcome reason. For example, if you joined from hackclub.com/slack/?event=angelhacks, or something like hackclub.com/slack/?event=angelhacks-toronto or any future event, Toriel will check for the event name in it's transcript, and add you to #angelhacks, and so forth. It was my first time working with :prisma: Prisma and some :nextjs: stuff , and I have to say they're both supper cool and fun to work with (well for the most part, this took me longer than I would like to admit :p)

#w-of-the-day day 120 Today was a banger, Productivity was through the roof today, I’ve finished most of my physics lesson plans and have basically near to completing the rust book Also went out for a barbecue, that was fun. It’s amazing how a good nights sleep can do for you

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After two days of hard work, the first version of the #angelhacks-toronto site is working and complete! We’re still hoping to add more info to it which will come soon!

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new blog post (dev.to/shubhampatilsd/removing-timezones-from-dates-in-javascript-46ah)

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give me the hoodie please, i just want the hoodie lol

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actually having a great day - just started taking concerta (18mg) for adhd, actually able to focus for once! I get a message and am able to go back to my work, and I like finished the math packet with the rest of the class; something that's never happened! (here's a golf stock photo because - every drug ad ever uses them lol)

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buildspaceeeee gas gas gas 🚀

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Had an AMA just now with the people over at Artmatr!! 🎨 Worked a lil bit on my science summative - the thing is, I missed all my classes thus far where they talked about the assessment so I have NO IDEA WHAT IM DOING YAY :dinobox:

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I fixed a tiny little bug in Unifriend regarding updating the graduating year of the user. For some reason, I was passing it into "f" instead of "auth_token" (total typo lol). Fixing it was a bit of fun. I also did a bit of promo for Carolina Hacks & reached out to a few people who signed up today. Today has been a good day. Today was not super productive as I dedicated a bit more time to school work than I'd like to.

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🚢 first ship (somehow?!) 🚢 ~Ever wanted to interface with XKCD on slack? Well, want no more!~ :partyparrot: Introducing xkcd dino, a slack bot that lets you do exactly that! You can: • search for comics by it's name using /xkcd name (title) • search for comics by it's number using /xkcd name (num) • or if you want to be surprised, try /xkcd random Want to try it out? You should join #xkcd!! or look at the code here: github.com/tregsthedev/xkcd_slack

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finishing @Aarya'sTestbot-U04DFL0D57H bot!

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I have very probably just been accepted at both uni bachelor programmes I applied at.

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Day 2/3 of #hack-club-at-fossasia-23!! I felt the need to post about this as a ship, as we committed a couple of shenanigans along the way~ :sphere: 1. Yes, we did a lil thing to #place - some of us here got bored and went to a Starbucks, where we sat and masterfully constructed the one and only John Cena. Then, we returned to the place and updated the board with a photo from #lion-city-hacks-bts!! DON'T WORRY WE ARE NOT HERE TO TROLL (although the john cena one was good, it was just a test - sorry @belle :p) 2. I worked with LionsForge to laser-cut a @dinobox acrylic piece! Going to buy an LED base to put this on :partyparrot: 3. Many stickers from everywhere - this is now the premier event where I got the most swag from 4. We set up a challenge for FOSSASIA participants to draw their versions of @orpheus!! The results were.... pretty diverse, and we will be sending them sometime tomorrow ~I think~ Here are some photos from today - a video update can be found in our planning channel linked above! See ya :pirateparrot:

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Hey Hack Club! We’re at FOSSASIA today :roo-yay:

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Guess what, another Sprig GO Update! I have introduced basic rendering to my firmware and I believe it has a solid chance on it being doable.

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Learning Low Poly modelling in Blender

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working on the orpheus show website!

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Carolina Hacks Flier :)

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Did the (nearly) impossible and reverse-engineered Replit's very hidden graphQL API and managed to track changes to Repls externally :))

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YEAHHH CS FOR BOSTON JUST GOT A VENUE AT THE CENTRAL BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY + CATERING!!!! Now all I need is to advertise to local schools, I'll start off by messaging one of my old teachers and I'll ask my sister about anyone who'd be interested! VERY EXCITING!!

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UChicago summer program ✅ ~But why Stanford do you have to announce your decisions in May idk whether I should go for it or not~ :why:

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Hosting a workshop @ SAIS Hack Club tomorrow! :hyper-popper:

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my first update from a new project i’ve been prototyping out tonight. so humbling writing rails code after SUPER long and realizing i have forgotten like 90% of the syntax

Hello! For those who don't know me, I'm Elysse Gonzalez from Boston, Massachusetts. I am currently a 15y/o freshman at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. Growing up and being from a lower class / low-income family, I never had the true ability to get into programming at a young age due to a lack of resources and classes. As I really got into programming and working on awesome projects, I just wished I could've had the resources I wasn't able to access due to monetary restrictions and my general location. I am hosting CS For Boston, a series of 5-8th grade workshops being hosted in community centers around Boston (and neighboring cities) made to provide CS education to underprivileged communities or those looking to get into CS who simply don't have the resources. I am starting this project as soon as possible. Although this is in it's early stages, I'd definitely love for you guys to stay tuned and see what I have planned. Many thanks to Zach Latta who has just recently helped me with really planning out the event and creating an aim for it to reach full potential! :bmo:

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After 10 thousand years I started working on my website :melting_face: In the meantime you can check my well prepared website at cruciblexd.tech

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🪣 Water buckets for my board game

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Small ship (bigger one coming soon hehe)! At #horizon I built an unnecessarily ~complicated~ hacky project involving Spotify + Neopixels. Basically, the web interface at horizonmusic.vercel.app allows everyone to add music to a Spotify playlist that I play (which means I have ultimate control I guess + yes you can technically still add music) without having to log in (especially if they don't have an account) + automatically filters out explicit songs in the search so nobody adds explicit songs. Waveform with p5.js and Tone.js record surround sound (coming from speakers and other close noise) and transform it into a cool waveform, while a set of LED lights (Neopixels) flash along to the music, utilizing an Adafruit Feather Huzzah to wirelessly communicate with a computer (computer mic -> computer -> computer processing -> send FPS to Adafruit -> flash Neopixels!) through the amazing audio-reactive-led-strip library. The Neopixels we got didn't work fully, but the result was still cool! github.com/jianmin-chen/spotify-collab (and I might be getting working Neopixels for another project!)

This is a lot more than I expected

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We won the first prize with this for the Math in CS category! We had a few other fractal-based programs as well but this one's my favorite! (There's a slight audio delay in the recording)