An autonomous boat that drones can land on to recharge automatically.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#882I just finished releasing a mobile game, and have a new goal for my next game: Early DOS 3D game based on the Rise of the Triad engine (a modified Wolfenstein 3D engine).
As far as I know the engine wasn't used again, with most moving to a Doom clone. I think there's untapped potential in the ROTT engine, and want to show it off, while having the game still run on the original target (386/486).
So far the code analysis has been really interesting, especially compared to the Wolf3D engine that it started as.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#883I built a few online multiplayer boardgames: https://wunderwald.games code is at https://GitHub.com/twaldecker/halma
Hi is in only in German for now.
Initial build was done in one afternoon for a Skype birthday surprise party.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#884I started a blog at https://theforgetful.dev. It's extremely basic. I'm still figuring out Hugo, and my writing style, and everything else. It has been a fun experience so far.
I used to store this info in a private wiki but I'm trying to find a way to do it properly in this format. I did it 99.9% for myself, because if I don't write things down then I forget them. But if it ends up being useful to someone else then I figure that's even better.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#885I'm finally (finally!) taking the time to learn Unreal Engine. I'm actually working on "porting" my favorite board game to it... I began doing that in Unity but I later decided that I should also use this moment to learn something new.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#886https://skilled.dev
Careers have been put on hold and many people have had setbacks, so I want to help developers find jobs once the quarantine ends and economies open back up.
I'm building a course to show developers how to succeed in the coding interview and stand out during the job hunt.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#887I created https://web.trango.io a LAN based calling and file sharing service. Essentially, you can share files, make video and audio calls to those on the same network as you without having to go through the internet. Your data never leaves your local Wifi. The internet is only used to discover those on the same network as you. We use webrtc and a signalling server to make this system work.
We were in the same office and needed a fast, simple way to communicate with eachother without coming in close contact (covid 19) and wanted to do that over LAN rather than use tools over the internet NOR use our ancient intercom system. So now we are using this internally for fast file sharing and good quality video calls.
Going to be introducing group calls soon and also the ability to integrate online calling and file sharing.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#888I coded an app to help artists and small entrepreneurs monetize their work during the pandemic. It allows to charge for livestream easily by selling tickets. (Only works in canada at the moment)
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#889I built a simple, community-maintained page that aggregates machine learning/data science competitions from across multiple platforms: https://mlcontests.com
I just wrote a short post about my experience so far: https://harald.co/2020/05/15/simple-free-website/
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#890I have some ideas of static sites but instead of using an already made static site generator, I have decided to write mine from scratch, because why not. Learning Go, I picked it for the task (even if Hugo is awesome)