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I've been building an ESP32 LED framework for a couple of years, and thanks to some great advances in AVR emulation, we can now emulate an Arduino in the browser and preview the patterns.
I also made it into a desktop app that can flash a new firmware to a real device over wifi. Super fun.
Let me know if you have feedback or if you wanna take a look on what I've worked on so far. :)
I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair o…
How does it handle moves where pieces might accidentally hit each other like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling and knight moves?
It's in here, but not for the faint-hearted: https://github.com/jes/autopatzer/blob/master/mojo/lib/Autop...
I did try giving it an accurate model of the acceleration curve of the stepper motors, so that it would do the set of moves that actually took the least time, but that led to strange motions where it would deliberately move pieces too far, and then back again at a diagonal, just to minimise the number of corners it needs to turn, so I instead just made it do a simple shortest-path, because it looks more natural to a human observer.
I.e. instead of going 2 squares right, then 2 squares up, then 1 square diagonal up-left, it would prefer to go 4 squares right, then 3 squares diagonal up-left. It takes less time, but looks stupid.
https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Yengapult Knock down a tower with a catapult.
https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/SpaceGame Fly a spaceship around an asteroid belt.
Godot engine is lots of fun (and so much easier than e.g. Unity.)
I'm in Florida so lockdown is still a thing, or will be again soon. I'm creating a coding language for UI designers. It's kind of like pseudo code in that it's not tied to any one implementation (platform). The basic idea is that designers will have a platform-agnostic language to describe the visual behavior of applications using the same terminology and mental models that they're familiar with.
That sounds fantastic! Got a link? Even if there's nothing demo-able yet, I'd like to star your repo (assuming it's on Github) so I get release updates.
I've written SAAS called Docula (document generator that doesn't suck). I've been programming professionaly for close to 20 years and no matter what I always ended up writing PDF generator for one case or another. This time I've had to write another PDF export again and I've decided to do it right this time. Having some unexpected extra time I've decided to create WYSIWYG editor in similar fashion to Figma or Zeplin…
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That sounds fantastic! Got a link? Even if there's nothing demo-able yet, I'd like to star your repo (assuming it's on Github) so I get release updates.
Thanks! I do have a (still private) repo that I will be making public eventually. My plan was to finish the white paper and initial draft of the spec, but I might be able to pull something small together in the next few days. I'll ping when it's ready!
Https://mailapicture.com
Made it with laravel hosted on aws lightsail.