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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by maxsun »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #74

I managed to plant vegetables and keep them alive and growing well in to June. I make the same attempt every year, so this is a record for me. On a more serious note, I had plans when the lockdown began. I wanted to build some kind of a "robot" as an educational venture. Do some redecorating, learn Unity and figure out how to use the TIG welder I bough one night when I was drunk. In reality what has happened is that…

One of my favorite after school activities as a kid was playing with Lego’s Mindstorm robot kits — if your kids have any interest, it could be a fun (and productive imo) way to have your interests meet in the middle :).

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Post by zedr »

I made a email dispatcher for web forms hosted on shared hosting providers, like Namecheap. I originally did it for a site my wife did, and then decided to open source it. It's here: https://github.com/zedr/simple-mailer

I also wrote a blog post on how to install it: https://medium.com/@zedr/how-to-send-mail-on-namecheap-share...

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Post by tasuki »

Created a website [1] listing soon-ending Handshake [2] auctions. It's frontend-only, using a 3rd party API. Written in Elm [3] which has been an absolute joy to work with and has the most helpful online community I've ever seen.

[1] http://sniper.tasuki/ - only works with a Handshake-aware DNS resolver [4]

[2] https://handshake.org/

[3] https://elm-lang.org/

[4] https://www.namebase.io/blog/how-to-access-handshake-domains...

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Post by jmpman »

grogenaut wrote: post #88
DoubleGlazing wrote: post #74

I managed to plant vegetables and keep them alive and growing well in to June. I make the same attempt every year, so this is a record for me. On a more serious note, I had plans when the lockdown began. I wanted to build some kind of a "robot" as an educational venture. Do some redecorating, learn Unity and figure out how to use the TIG welder I bough one night when I was drunk. In reality what has happened is that…

Tig welding is great way to essentially meditate, similar to painting, once you figure it out that is. Start with lines on 1/4" steel flat bars.

I find oxy/acetylene welding super meditative. The sound blocks everything out, putting you in a pink noise cocoon.

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Post by chris_engel »

tunesmith wrote: post #180

I resuscitated a 20-year-old-website that was somewhat popular back in the day called storysprawl.com. It's private now, but I have friends join me on Sunday nights to write chapters together - we join Zoom, we write, we read them to each other. It's kind of like choose-your-own-adventure combined with round-robin fiction: Read chapter one, there are choices at the bottom, make a choice. If the next chapter is writte…

This sounds interesting :)

My wife is doing something along the lines (ba-dum tss) with a friend of her: i am keeping a REALLY old version of "legend of the green dragon" online for them and they write a huge fantasy story together on a daily basis. They should get that printed in a book some day :)

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Post by holler »

annoyingnoob wrote: post #231

Does a hobby produce a product? Seems all about 'products'. I'm working on an electric Go Kart for the kids, almost done. Its going to kick ass. Its not a product, it doesn't have a web site, I didn't write a single line of code, but I took an old gas powered go kart and turned into an electric one.

that sounds pretty cool! and not just for the kids :) how fast does it go?

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Post by Pietbull »

Made a platform for party/drinking games over Zoom.

https://ziago.co

Games run on Realtime Firebase DB, so players join with a link and everyone is kept updated with game flow and other player actions etc.

So far had 10000 people play, and has 9 games and still working on more. The focus for now is on social/turn-based kind of games.

Runs on Vue and Firebase. FB helped me to launch it in a month. Wrote about it at https://codeburst.io/how-i-built-a-real-time-games-platform-...

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