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Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Sound

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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-Sound (demo, source). It’s a small soundboard.

You can:

  • Play 25 built-in samples
  • Record your own samples with your mic
  • Play samples directly, or record them on up to 4 tracks
  • Have tracks play one time only, or loop
  • Adjust the alignment of tracks
  • Use a keyboard or mouse
  • (Mobile not supported)

Have fun. I think this was a pretty good toy.

Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Stats

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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-Stats (demo, source). It displays web traffic statistics about Hack-A-Day.

The original point of the project was to show some nice graphs in d3, as an effort to teach myself d3. But halfway through I got unbearably bored by “show a bunch of stats” as a project, so no d3. Whoops! You win some you lose some.

Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Line

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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-Line (demo, source). Hack-A-Line is a 5-in-a-row game for two players. You play online against each other by sharing a link.

I’m okay with this one, except that there’s one really bad display bug that kind of ruins it. I’m starting to develop a list of projects where I might want to go back and fix something after this month.

I skipped yesterday because I needed a break.

Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Tile

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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-Tile (demo, source). It’s a tile-matching game like dominos.

Hack-A-Tile is based on mathematical Wang tiles. It was very tempting to call it Hack-A-Wang.

If I update it, I would

  • Zoom out as you go. I think that would look cool!
  • Animate shifting over. Right now adding tiles on the top or left is visually confusing.
  • Change the tiles. These are fun mathematically, but not ideal for a game
  • Either add a maximum size, or some constraint to stop you just making one long line.

Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Machine

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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-Machine (demo, source). It’s a whimsical VM you can play around with.

I liked this one, but it really didn’t fit into a day too well.

Features include:

  • Edit, save, and share programs!
  • Visual debugger with step, run, pause, and stop!
  • One example program!
  • Weird arithmetic!
  • Negative-364 based addressing!
  • “Touchscreen” display!
  • “Ticker tape” input and output!
  • 21 never before seen instructions!
  • Optional registration!

Sadly not in the “one day” category are

  • good compiler errors
  • line numbering
  • line highlighting when stepping through code
  • syntax highlighting
  • the entire machine 100% working (I tested a little!)
  • fixing all the bugs (there’s a particularly nasty one where you have to save before you run)