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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by travis_the_makr » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

I've been slowly designing, engineering, coding, and 3D printing a 2D Plotter (a printer you can code) https://hackaday.io/project/171536-diy-2d-plotter

I launched a Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/travis_the_maker

I also refactored/updated my engineering and photography portfolios.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by bonchicbongenre » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 3:43 AM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #318

julianeon wrote: post #205

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Have you considered Kickstarting this? Your pitch could be: "like Regium, except it's not vaporware and actually works." I mean that company had nothing and they were well on their way to raising 50k, before they were stopped. You have a real product. That $50,000 should've been yours. https://thehustle.co/03092020-chess-kickstarter-regium/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/fcfcpi/the_regium_eb... https://www.k…

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…

Just wanted to chime in saying I'd be very interested in purchasing one/supporting a kickstarter for a lichess-connected board — even if a bit hacky, it would still be wonderful

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by kinow » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 4:51 AM UTC

farcaster wrote: post #530

kinow wrote: post #517

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Was going to ask what you had used. Brazilian too, but know only Spanish (kinda), and English. Will check out these two. Thanks and congrats!!!

LingQ is something else. The ideia is that you should feed the app with "input" from your target language that you care about[1], and listen to it again and again. Memrise is more like a Duolingo that actually works haha [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-u_vVx6Is

Thanks!

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Post by vackosar » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 9:48 AM UTC

I finished my automated micro-training generation tool, that I used a lot myself, but wanted to see if others find it useful https://Quizrecall.com/

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by annoyingnoob » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 2:18 AM UTC

holler wrote: post #288

annoyingnoob wrote: post #231

Does a hobby produce a product? Seems all about 'products'. I'm working on an electric Go Kart for the kids, almost done. Its going to kick ass. Its not a product, it doesn't have a web site, I didn't write a single line of code, but I took an old gas powered go kart and turned into an electric one.

that sounds pretty cool! and not just for the kids :) how fast does it go?

The motor controller has 3 settings, Low, Med , Hi - which correspond to 16 mph, 24 mph, and 32 mph. It has a soft start mode where it won't go full power right away but ramps up, one can disable this feature. Its pretty quick but not earth shattering, it won't really do a burn out. The 9, 10, 12 year old kids think its great and drive it well (well enough). The 6 year old kids are slightly too small and don't watch where they are going - but they love it. Its super fun for the kids and more than any of them can handle yet - which is the best part. Going electric was a great idea, the kids are louder than the Go Kart, and the battery is big enough to last for hours.

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Post by j-rom » Fri, Jul 03, 2020, 8:55 PM UTC

gzajac wrote: post #534

j-rom wrote: post #466

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This is super cool! Just out of curiosity, have you thought about automating the on boarding process at all? Something to streamline the process so that you don't need to manually mark each location? Or maybe even supporting multiple buildings?

Thanks for the feedback! The app already supports multiple floors and multiple buildings. Regarding the streamlining of the process, I was thinking of something like adding an option to automatically send out invitations to everybody in the company to add their own location. What do you have in mind?

A bit late on this. But from my experience, if the onboarding is pushed onto the user, not everyone is going to do it, there might be some errors, etc... I was just thinking if there was some way you could automatically get their info without requesting it from each person.