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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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

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Post by Tossrock »

I've been working on a texture/video synthesis framework for VJing / music visualization on a large LED installation. It uses a node editor (no relation to node.js) visual scripting approach to pipe data between different shaders (like a fluid simulation) and signal generators (like MIDI or Xbox controllers).

Fluid simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1JzOv4w65w

Audio reactive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o

It's done with the Unity game engine, and is open source! https://github.com/SotSF/canopy-unity

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

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Post by qchris »

A submersible time-lapse camera set-up using a RPi Zero, battery pack, and camera.

I was working on repairing an inflatable dinghy earlier (over a dozen individuals patches!) and finally got it working and moving with a electric trolling motor. I can go free-diving from it and was looking for something else to do. The goal is to be able to put everything in the water-tight enclosure on shore, motor out to a spot in a kelp forest, drop anchor, hop over the side, and swim down to a good spot to place the camera.

When that's done, I'll hang out for a bit playing around in the water or eat lunch/read a book or something in the dinghy, then go back down to grab it and then head back inshore and hope I've gotten some cool imagery!

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

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Post by kaashmonee »

It was actually inspired from HN. I found a site here called helpwithcovid.com and I've been working on a volunteer project with it. It's with a few people from around the world, so it's a nice opportunity to work on something but also with other people so it brings a fun social aspect into things. If anyone's interested, it's called CoCo and it can be found here: https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/719-coco-corona-control-c...

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

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Post by jfrankamp »

I built a sketch of a game with unity

(A/D keyboard, left right taps on mobile)

http://countdown.joshuafrankamp.com.s3-website-us-east-1.ama...

This might look familiar to anyone who has seen this set of unity tutorials. I watched the first ~6 back to back and then attempted to rebuild a version of it all from memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3j...

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

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Post by blizkreeg »

I'm working on a tool that links technical documentation to code. The problem: product specs/technical docs are often out of date with the implementation.

If anyone is interested in sharing their pain with this, I'm all ears and would love to brainstorm! Email in my bio.

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