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Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#22My game.
Its still buggy, and has grown - very, very complex. It will never be on steam. Still work on it every day.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#23Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#24https://www.findlectures.com/ This is a big enough project to can explore most programming subjects (e.g. machine learning, Javascript, databases, email), and I enjoy learning about history by watching old videos.
Nice work on this site! I think I'll have something to do the coming time ;) How did you manage to find and index all these videos?
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#25Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#26http://www.tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/ Upside: it's got a quantum physics game engine, and can teach you quantum mechanics Downside: HN will continue to tear me apart for making them download a JAR file but you can grab the source and compile it yourself if you like
Looks cool.
I'd love to be able to see more screenshots of the game - at the moment they're faded out and placed in the background, and when you click them you end up just downloading the game itself.
I actually don't mind the JAR file thing ;) but I'm unlikely to download and try it without knowing a bit more about the game concept.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#27http://www.luminusweb.net/ and all my GitHub projects https://github.com/yogthos
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#28A few of mine: https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/painting-a-christmas-... - 'painting' the LEDs on my christmas tree. https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/optical-magnetic-stri... - optically decoding data from magnetic stripe cards. https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/zymeter-simple/ - a rather unsuccessful attempt at measuring specific gravity. https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer - playing .wav f…
I dig it. Man, this is what real engineering is supposed to look like
> I now have 57 GB of audio files of bubbles
Sounds like.. FUN!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#29A few of mine: https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/painting-a-christmas-... - 'painting' the LEDs on my christmas tree. https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/optical-magnetic-stri... - optically decoding data from magnetic stripe cards. https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/zymeter-simple/ - a rather unsuccessful attempt at measuring specific gravity. https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer - playing .wav f…
I dig it. Man, this is what real engineering is supposed to look like > I now have 57 GB of audio files of bubbles Sounds like.. FUN!
Haha, cheers
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#30Curious how no one mentioned kids yet.
Practicing to make kids == sheer joy?