It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s project is Hack-A-Dictionary (demo, source). It looks up words.
OK, I’ll be honest. I’m phoning this one in. I needed a break.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s project is Hack-An-Asteroid (demo, source). It’s an asteroids clone with four levels.
I’m pretty happy with this as my first “visual” game. I made it in Unity3D.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s project is Hack-An-Icecube (demo, source). It’s a failed attempt to make a game in Unity3D, the game engine/framework.
This is my first failure, which I think is good! I was getting bored only attempting things I could definitely succeed at in one day. That said, running out of time is fun. Wrestling the IDE isn’t. This was mostly wrestling the IDE, setting configs, and installing software.
I won’t continue this tomorrow, I’d rather do a new project each day (It’s called Hack-A-DAY)! But I might do another Unity3D project before the month is out.
The ice cubes load and fall, and that’s it. No controls, no game. I ran out of time.
This is an attempt to recreate One Hour Jam Cannon by juzek exactly. I ran out of time, but I made some progress getting Unity to work.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s (catch-up) project is Hack-A-Homepage (demo, source). You can enter various information about yourself, such as links to your social media, and make your own little homepage.
This one took about another hour. I think it’s okay, but today was definitely a “do the numbers” game to catch up. Tomorrow I want to do something more fun and new.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s (catch-up) project is Hack-A-Link (demo, source). You can enter a long link, and it will be shortened.
This one was also pretty easy. About an hour.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s project is Hack-A-Paste (demo, source). You can upload text and share it with others.
Today’s project was an easy one, because I was busy. Took an hour or two.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s project is Hack-A-Chat. (demo, source). It’s a free web chat for anyone that goes to the website.
Check out the link above to try out the live demo.
So far, not much easier. Another 8-hour day. I was hoping to do something with WebRTC today, but I didn’t get to it.
It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!
Today’s project is the Hack-A-Blog. (demo, source).
Check out the link above to try out the live demo. I’m proud of getting this one done in time. I think the next days will be easier, as I figured some things out already.
I’ve been prototyping an e-ink laptop.
I’m not the first, there have been many other such devices before. I came up with the idea independently, but the specifics are heavily inspired by the Ultimate Writer by NinjaTrappeur in 2018. Similar to him, my use case is typing without distractions, and reading books. E-ink displays are quite slow to update, so I don’t think it can serve as a general purpose computer. Here’s a video of it in action. It operates at one frame per second.
The electronics are not fully done. They need better secured, and I’m going to redo the cabling and power back.
I’m not the best woodworker, but I’m slowly learning. Here are pictures of case and lid action.
On the software end, shout outs to:
There’s a few things I’d like to polish still–even as a prototype this isn’t fully done.
There’s also no default software, but that’s a feature. A prototype is for figuring out how I want the interface to work, and what I want it to do.
Parts list
Power budget (at 5V):
A real-life test showed 5-6 hour battery life. Theory says (13Wh/battery * 4 batteries / 2.7 watts)=20 hours battery life. I’m investigating the discrepancy. In theory, swapping for a Pi Zero W and a better keyboard would give 72-hour battery life.
I write down everything I do. Yesterday, I wrote a quick-and-dirty analysis program to get some stats on common habits.
The full results are here: drive floss food read sleep teeth tv wake walk youtube. Of course, what I write down doesn’t perfectly match what I do, so most of the absolute stats are vastly wrong. Comparative ones are still interesting.
Here’s some results:
I’ll leave you with this poor man’s graph of driving frequency over time. See the pandemic hit?
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