Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by taf2 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:35 PM UTC

Solar battery powered defense system. I’m confident the zombies are coming for us and so I am preparing with a security system built on raspberry pi, esp32 & loads of gear from adafruit/amazon delivery. The final system should have perimeter sensors (pir and break light sensors) that active pan tilt tracking cameras and deploy a tracking drone (weather permitted) with laser pointer and scary sounding robocop ed209 voice...

So far I have a camera working that can sleep when no motion and wake back up if low battery after enough charge.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by duderoso » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

Small site that accesses the posts and comments you save on reddit and allows you to search or filter using elixir/phoenix and liveview.

Also ordered a few raspberry pis to build a cluster as motivation to learn/experiment w kubernetes and distributed systems in general

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Post by james2001 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

https://www.ezail.com

It's a communication platform for small and micro businesses (spec. emerging markets) to send invoices and orders, keep track of credits/debits, log income/expenses, trade commodities, sell online, chat with customers and suppliers.

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Post by Q_the_Novice » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:37 PM UTC

https://github.com/qawemlilo/piflix

I built an electron app for organising and watching saved movies. In my part of the world, a lot of people still rely on external storage devices to share movies and music.

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Post by johnjones4 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:38 PM UTC

I've been building out new features like crazy on my recipe app Reciplay (https://getreciplay.com/) including a Google Vision and FastText powered recipe scanner.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by a-saleh » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:38 PM UTC

Mostly trying to get my 5 year old into some light programming :D

- I bought her Lego Boost (well, mostly myself, but we still have fun with it) and she is getting better at actually programming it

- I installed scratch junior on the chromebook she's been using (nice for mostly lightly interactive animations), we wen't through few of the work-assigments and she likes to fiddle with the included project-samples

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by pielambr » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

I've started to make a simple website where people can share useful snippets of code, handy Linux commands or just anything useful regarding code. Urbandictionary-wise you can view topics, or go to a random snippet. Probably use this as a personal fun wiki

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by bram2w » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

I've been working on an open source online database tool called Baserow [0] as a side project. In the current form you can compare it with a simple version of Airtable, but Baserow can handle much more data, you can optionally host it on your own server, you can write plugins for it and it's (going to be) open source. Everyone can try out an early test version at the website [0]. More features are going to be following soon! The open source release will probably take place in Juli as I still need to write lots of documentation and I want to create a plugin boilerplate.

The stack is Django, Nuxt.js and PostgreSQL (also MySQL and SQLite are going to be supported). For this project I've been learning Nuxt.js and Kubernetes. Normally I work full time as a full stack freelance developer, but due to the corona outbreak I've lost one of my biggest clients. This resulted in more time for Baserow, which was already a side project for a while now. I would like to make a business out of this in the future because I really enjoy working this.

[0] https://baserow.io

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by dhab » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

On weekends: laying pavers in my front lawn :) During week (between work): learning lisp

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Post by keriati1 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:47 PM UTC

I learned using the TICK stack and Grafana.

Originally I wanted to see some Covid data with my own visualization, was thinking on D3 first.

Ended up with full TICK stack and Grafana, monitoring all devices I have at home and setting up alerts for all kind of silly stuff. Usefulness is questionable, but I learned a lot.

I have now some insight in the local area covid spread and happy to report, no new cases in my town discovered since a month \o/ (according to the government provided API)