@clairebookworm1went to horizon!! taught a p5js workshop, mentored Girl Scouts, crashed the gwc code fair, met some amazing people <3, and had fun in nyc!!
@sampoder5caches! in #caches, we created the art for the boxes that we’ll be using as caches. For a bit of fun we included a small easter egg that uses the cipher wheel! It was also interesting learning about PURL from @reesericci. here’s the Figma file we’re using: www.figma.com/file/gTQBOkFdXCQUeL2yQhmuki/the-cache.
The next step for us is getting these laser cut / engraved! And then ship them around the world...
@malted2Finished building my second A-level coursework project today. Converts decimal to binary and back :P
@TanishqUpmanu-U04F0RWGARH0:quad_parrot:
Ahoy there, matey! Avast ye eyes and lend me thy ears, for I've got a tale to tell ye about a drone unlike any other. This be no ordinary flying contraption, for it be equipped with the finest artificial intelligence and advanced sensors known to man.
Arrr, let me regale ye with the details of this marvelous invention. Our drone, which we'll call the "AI Sentry," is a technological marvel that could make even Blackbeard himself envious. With its advanced sensors, it can detect and track targets from great distances, making it an invaluable tool for surveillance and reconnaissance.
But what truly sets the AI Sentry apart from other drones is its AI capabilities. It has been programmed to learn and adapt to its environment, allowing it to make split-second decisions and adjust its flight path accordingly. Whether it be navigating through treacherous terrain or avoiding obstacles, the AI Sentry is up to the task.
But that be not all, me hearties. The AI Sentry is also capable of autonomous flight, meaning it can operate without the need for human intervention. This makes it an ideal candidate for a wide range of missions, including search and rescue operations, disaster response, and even delivery services.
But let's not forget about the AI Sentry's most impressive feature - its ability to swarm. That's right, this drone can operate in coordinated groups, communicating with each other and sharing information in real-time. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities for applications such as security, crowd control, and even entertainment.
So, there ye have it, me buckos. The AI Sentry is a drone like no other, boasting advanced sensors, artificial intelligence, autonomous flight, and swarm capabilities. With its endless possibilities, it's no wonder why it's the talk of the seven seas.
thankyou @HackClubBank-U04SEGJ8WN5 for supporting the project , and special thanks to @MelanieSmith who over time in weekends, I am still making that device to stop you overwork , and @sampoder I assure you this will not crash AGAIN , ps-EPOCH@Sam3Day 1 (the second day) of #frc at Newmarket, Ontario! :first:
Was super fun seeing all the other teams' robot designs.
@e-lee-za0Made a comic page today, just for fun. Me, and a dodgy clone of me, and a big glowey light thing
@alialiwa20050Inspired by Amazon Web Services (AWS) :aws:, Libre Web Services (LWS) :libre-web-services:, also known as "Raspberry Web Services (RWS)" :raspberry-pi-logo:, is a concept built during Hack Club's :hackclub: Winter of Making :wom: 2023 Winter Hardware Wonderland :winter-hardware-wonderland: "10 Days of Making" event is a hackable, scalable, load-balanced, home-hosted, multi-node aarch64 Arm-based :arm: cloud powered by Kubernetes :kubernetes: & Docker :docker:, created by @alialiwa2005 ("Hack Cat" :hacker-cat:), a veteran :scrappy-retro: Hack Club community member :dino-drake-yea: & founder 🧭 of Gaynor McCown Hack Club:gaynormccown:, established in November of 2020 :dinosaur_waving:.
Libre Web Services :libre-web-services: on Hack Club Scrapbook :scrappy: | Libre.hackclub.com
@vizz0:blobhypedance: Day 1/4
Finals finished! and also finally started working on sprig today, made this bitmap :eggsdee:, hopefully everything goes well🤞
@ZeroQL7+#w-of-the-day day 55
I spent 3 whole days for math and math only but in the end it was worth it 😎 , i'm running on 3 hours of sleep so no productive stuff today
Here's me in the hc #minecraft server (you guys should join imho).
@Verisimilitude110❄️ Day 3 of Hack Club's Winter Hardware Wonderland ❄️
For my #hardware-party project, I will build a smart plant watering system that uses a microcontroller and sensors to automatically water my plants based on soil moisture levels. I am excited to build this project because I love plants, but I often forget to water them. This system will help me take better care of my plants and save water by only watering when needed.
I've been kinda busy this past week, so I didn't have much time to work on this, but I tested all of my hardware and also fully completed the solar power generator part that will allow me to use the watering system outdoors without having to worry about the battery running out or finding a power source.
@Chris0I guess i will call day one of my #hardware-party, my hardware finally arrived. I have almost everything i need.
But the GPS module is stuck with the delivery people. So now I have to wait a couple of days as it arrive.
I am going start with what i have so far and see how far I van go, as it should be quick once i receive the rest g the hardware
@parkalex3800Me abusing my school account’s unlimited storage to store mc server backups
@christina6950Next.js! Got started on my first website using Next.js . . . It may- or may not- be a project where I help the local library create a Legos Station for kids
@Sam3Testing out parts to make sure they work for the 10 days of making! First time working with steppers. Hopefully I did nothing wrong!@Verisimilitude110Learning how to use PocketBase - it's a really cool way to link your database with your frontend and Go backend!
@adelly130so so so happy that a research paper that i’ve been working on for a supa long time finally got published!
@provsalt0Just shipped my new personal website out in the wild! raygoo.tech
This is like my 3rd design and I'm really happy with how this turned out and yes, it is written in svelte after switching from solid-start to nextjs and now finally on sveltekit. safe to say, I really enjoy svelte.
I think my design skills are improving slowly. Please let me know if there's any improvements I can make on the design aspect.
Full ugly source code: github.com/provsalt/provsalt
@ShubhamPatil0Coffee! Got some high quality beans and a grinder yesterday!
@ShaneCelis-U04F7QE6H410I wrote a font explorer for sprig because I needed a pipe | character. I found it where the backslash \ normally is.
@khalby78622 weeks to go till Epoch, and here's the story of this sticker.
It all started a few months ago when genius minds from all over the world decided to brainstorm ideas for stickers they'd like at Epoch. We decided we wanted stickers with local Delhi references for advanced humour. And one such idea was to make a sticker that says Horn Ok Please, with Epoch-ish Hack Club elements in there. For context, Horn Ok Please is written on the back of trucks and lorries prominently seen in North India (in South India, we just have Sound Horn) to alert drivers of vehicles approaching from behind to sound their horns if they wish to overtake, in a country like India where honking is the primary source of communication between you and the other vehicles on the road. Part of the idea was also to make it look like Horn Ok Please was written on the back of a truck. I said, "OK OK LMAOOO WE'RE MAKING A STICKER OUT OF THIS".
Now I'm not exactly the most productive and efficient person out there, I thrive on deadlines. I would occasionally just visit the Figma file, do random stuff and close my tabs while I did not have exams, homework or both. Normally I'd be able to complete stuff while "occasionally" visiting but this one was a bit hard. There weren't many reference images I could find, other than a photo directly from the Wikipedia page. I somehow also found the same image from a frontal angle which helped me trace out the letters and create "Horn Ok Please" as an SVG (my Figma Pen Tool skills are unrivalled, they talk about my curves). I also needed some random art related to India, like peacocks and the Taj Mahal, so what I did was take photos from unsplash.com, remove their background and run them through svgco.de (WHICH IS A GOD SENT BTW, credit to @OjasSomethin' for pointing this wonderful tool out) to give them a painted and vector-y look. I quickly combined them together but I realized it didn't have the same back-of-the-truck feeling and other people were quick to point that out. @deven then points out that I should do "Hack Ok Please" ("cos the H matches") and a few days later, there's a better reference picture of a Horn Ok Please in #design.
In the thread where the image was posted, there was a lot of talk about getting the text bevels and shadows right along with identifying a similar font, which @sarthak narrowed down to a font called Syne, which fortunately was available on Google Fonts and I had it downloaded in no time. I decided to start with the background, and I wanted it to look realistic as possible. The question is, how do you make wooden planks in Figma? Sure, I could draw lines, and make it look realistic in a vector art sense but I wanted the right colour and texture. Well, what if I just placed a picture of wooden planks? That is exactly what I did, and it's called textures. A visit to textures.com gave me some quality seamless textures of wooden planks, and to make it pink I added a separate colour layer and decreased the opacity of the colour layer (I slightly colour-corrected the plank textures for it to be visible while still having the desired shade of pink). I also wanted the grooves (or gaps, whatever you call them) between the planks to affect the surrounding elements as if all the designed elements were actually painted on wooden planks. I did this by manually drawing out groove lines using the good ol' Pen Tool and giving it a slight drop shadow.
The text. "Hack Ok Please!!". It needed bevels. Neither does Figma have an option for bevels nor could I find a plugin that gives bevels to text. Having lost all hope, I wandered around on YouTube hoping some Indian tech guy could help me out when an unexpected ally rose to the occasion: pixlr.com/e. They could make bevels out of text input and export it into PNG - that was more than enough for me. I dragged the export across the browser and into Figma and used a freemium plugin called Image Tracer which I thought had already been exhausted of its 5 free trials but apparently not. I got an SVG, got box shadows using a wonderful plugin called oblique and added that stuff on top of the wood.
Only the decorations remained. I'm not gonna lie, I didn't have much creativity in this area. The corners of my reference image had floral-like colourful designs and I wasn't really sure about manually tracing it using the Pen Tool. The floral-like design reminded me of something I used to do with my mom when I was a kid, where basically I'd take an A4-sized paper, fold the paper in half, put drops of acrylic paint of different colours on the crease of the paper and fold it again to create something that looked like a butterfly. I thought that if I could do something like that with the right colours, I could take a good picture with my phone, remove its background, change its colours a bit and use it in my design. After begging my sister to help me (spoiler alert: she did not), I decided to steal my sister's paint (she's not on Hack Club, so she won't find out) and perform the sacred method of "squish painting". Long story short, it did not come out like I expected it to, it was too narrow and too green for my liking. (I wanted to take a picture of the result I got for the sake of this scrapbook post, but the paint stuck to each other and now I can't unfold the paper and tearing it doesn't seem like a good idea.) At this point, I decided to give up on everything else and trust the mighty Pen. By listening to the Doom OST theme song and Cocomelon songs on a loop, I traced out the basic lines of the floral designs and just randomly coloured them with every main colour I could find.
By now, I was too lazy and uncreative to create my own assets, so I just screenshotted the flower thingy at the bottom of the reference image and then modified the colours a bit so that it matches the background colour of the sticker. Combine this with some smooth curves and spheres, and we have our decorations. To make it even more realistic, I got some grime and brush stroke textures from textures.com, removed their backgrounds, reduced the highlights a bit, increased the shadows a lot, halved the opacities and added the corners of the sticker.
Oh and I almost forgot, there's a slight amount of noise at the very top to give it a slightly dirty/realistic feeling, using the Noise plugin. Adding noise textures to my designs is a reflex action at this point.
@kognise0gonna share here because i’m somewhat proud of myself actually… built a fully custom graphviz thingy yesterday! the implementation is really, really clean and i’m super happy with it! :)))
it’s like. performant. and really flexible. renders dags that can have references, and you can for example double click on the dashed links to tree-ify the references (and reverse that too) with their own saved state. and a bunch of other nifty things
@zrl2Day 5/10 of #10-days-in-public! I missed the past couple days, but woke up early this morning and wanted to make some more progress on learning deep learning.
• Started the first “Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022” video
• Configured the heck out of some shell scripts for starting a Jupyter Lab notebook environment!
Code is going into github.com/zachlatta/learning-deep-learning@ShawnMalluwa-U04BBP8H9FA0painted today too 🙂
@KaraMassie0day 2/100-days-of-being-a-beginner . Despite being explicitly told to build my site for mobile first, I... didn't.
@kognise reminded me to add viewport in <head> for mobile, which fixed most of the issues. @msw , should we add this to the workshop? (plus how to check for different screens on chrome!)
In happier news, I had some fun with customizable fonts like this opensource one.
@Lucas7+Debugging and fixing bugs in Sprig with @Omay
@Lucas7+This is Epic! @sampoder@ian1Made a few improvements to the new homepage cards today! Now your Bank projects will display the logo on the homepage. I also optimized the balance by loading it async. If you haven’t yet, you can enable the feature preview to try it out.
@j_cordz1After 399 days my streak has officially come to the first place with the 400th day today! :tw_tada::fireball::parrotdad: I started last year just as something to do when I joined Hack Club :hack-club: but it have become a great way to keep small updates of the things I've been working on and learning. So for today, besides celebrating this, I finished my code and add more documentation updates for github.com/javierzaleta/splatter-paint(please consider starring it ⭐ on GitHub!) and made a piano website with another workshop 🎹 that I'll share soon besides a JavaScript :javascript: music visualizer. Also, I just need to wait one more day for my last Hacktoberfest PR :hacktoberfest-2022: to be accepted and sadly I missed Sal Khan's AMA. :sadge::khan-academy:
@la0lorem ipsum text? NO
Black Country, New Road lyrics :sotrue:
@tinu0final day #10-days-in-public!!! Today, I worked on the attendance page in grade melon and I also worked on using a new api and fixing bugs in qRoute.
