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Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#492I built this: http://artbuffer.com/ I built it so I could easily create unique art for printing, framing and putting up in my home. Some examples: https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=wslyHCoGjqoA3ZKgsQ_hNAlnshT... https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=-9Wr6aLtgF383zsAWxchXJbt8CW... https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=OuIs3I6vHAyqV-PoMb6EFiRVAFw...
This is great work. Very cool stuff.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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Damn looks sick... I need to try it out
Please do, it's not completely finished yet but I am using it for my own daily workout. If you don't have a Quest it will work with PC VR headset as well, although you will either need to strap the controllers to your wrists or put the controllers down when you do the pushups (not very comfortable)
Yup... I do have a quest
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#494I wrote an automated solution to spending requirements for high interest checking accounts. High interest checking accounts (up to 5% APR) often require a dozen or more transactions a month to qualify for high rates. Debbit automates this by purchasing 50 cent Amazon gift cards and/or paying your cable bill in small increments throughout the month. Behind the scenes, Debbit is a hand rolled scheduler that runs Seleni…
Excellent idea! Will be checking this out further.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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Thanks, but it's really not a consumer-quality product, and I don't think I have the engineering chops to turn it into one. The frame is made by hand out of plywood. A lot of the wires inside are just taped in place. The Raspberry Pi takes several minutes to boot up to the game screen, during which time you can't interact with the board in any way, and you just get a load of Linux nonsense on the touchscreen. It's al…
Working with a contract manufacturer should be able to alleviate those issues you're mentioning. Feel free to DM me if you have more questions. Awesome project!!
That said I think the prototype doesn’t give you much more than starting with nothing in terms of a kickstarter. Other than the marketing advantage of being able to show what the eventual gameplay will feel like. But no head starts on the product itself that would need to be designed for bulk manufacturing.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#496Someone should construct a mechanical turk, and then pay people on mechanical turk to be opponents
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#497I upgraded my 3D printer's X and Z axes to MGN12 linear rails in order to stiffen up the extruder significantly. I also switched the hot bed from glass to a magnetic pad. I finished a PID toaster oven project from a few years ago. I've been using it to dry out filament. I also made a nice filament dry box to battle oozing. I thought I was having anxiety over the last couple months, but it just turned out to be all th…
> I thought I was having anxiety over the last couple months, but it just turned out to be all the nerves in my heart electrically failing for no reason. Now I have a pacemaker. I ordered some electronics to capture my own ECG traces so I can detect the pacemaker pulses for fun. Hope you're feeling better; I know how scary heart stuff can be. After my own scare (luckily a false positive) I also learned that weird anx…
Thanks! I feel great now that my heart is beating normally. Apparently my heart is in perfect shape other than the faulty wiring. Amusingly, they had to open me up again because of a loose ring terminal. As an embedded software engineer, I am geeking out trying to learn everything I can about pacemakers now. Maybe when I get tired of working on drones, I'll go work on the next generation of pacemakers. Get some tweaks in the next model before my battery dies! I'm just so lucky to be alive at a time that there's an easy off the shelf solution to what would otherwise be a life ending condition.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#498A ghost Blog where entrepreneurs, AI engineers and coders from across the world introduce their work to beginners.
It has a clean UI just like Medium and in fact we opened up all our Medium content for free on this blog.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#499I made my side project connect to North European banks as well as US and Canadian ones. PSD2 is really something!
Receiptrunner.com
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Sort of depends I think. We have a four year old and two year old twins. We've found we have a ton more time. Mostly because we were forced to actually slow down and be at home instead of always on the go.
We have approximately the same kid layout, just a few years further down the road (twins with an older sibling). Once kids are in school, the situation changes dramatically. School ends up consuming a big chunk of the "work" day, so keeping up with work takes up much of what used to be "family" time, net result is that there is far less free time now than there used to be.
This has been my experience too.
If both parents are working full time (not furloughed) then you often end up working early mornings and evenings to compensate for lost time during the day.
Same is also true if you have younger kids but either / both parents work jobs that require lots of formal meetings. As understanding as employers have been, there’s only so many times one can have a meeting interrupted because a doll fell over or Duplo piece fell off an impossible structure. So parents will often arrange their day where they essentially tag-team their day, meaning lost hours are made up in the early mornings / late evenings.