Show HN: Kiddo Paint

#1

Post by vikrum » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 5:51 PM UTC

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

#2

Post by vikrum » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

Hey HN — so, after finding a 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a a month, this little side project is about done. I had a blast working on this with my kids acting as PMs :) I haven't tested it on non-OSX, and I imagine that the unicode/emoji support will be broken. I considered just including the OTF for those, but that's on order of ~40MB. Ideas welcome!

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by _pius » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:22 PM UTC

vikrum wrote: post #2

Hey HN — so, after finding a 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a a month, this little side project is about done. I had a blast working on this with my kids acting as PMs :) I haven't tested it on non-OSX, and I imagine that the unicode/emoji support will be broken. I considered just including the OTF for those, but that's on order of ~40MB. Ideas welcome!

This is awesome, nice work!

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by jlawton » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

vikrum wrote: post #2

Hey HN — so, after finding a 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a a month, this little side project is about done. I had a blast working on this with my kids acting as PMs :) I haven't tested it on non-OSX, and I imagine that the unicode/emoji support will be broken. I considered just including the OTF for those, but that's on order of ~40MB. Ideas welcome!

Don't let Bloomberg Magazine find this - they'll use it for all their covers!

Seriously though, this is a ton of fun!

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by slig » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

I loved it. Have you ever thought about adding a "replay" button? It'd clear the canvas and show, step by step, what the kid draw.

I've been building one similar, but for grown ups and I'm learning lots of cool stuff from your code. For instance, I just learned about `createPattern`. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by ohitsdom » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

The explosion noise when clicking on the bomb is a nice touch :)

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

#7

Post by lucio » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

very nice! I'll try it with my kid

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by jasonjayr » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

ohitsdom wrote: post #6

The explosion noise when clicking on the bomb is a nice touch :)

The original KidPix had that idea, an old drawing application that could desperately use a refresh to modern interfaces .....

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by ismail » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:44 PM UTC

Nice. Will test it out. As a parent of a 3 year old & 15 month I find it amazing how quickly the pickup on things. I also belive we are witnessing the "app generation" growing up. We limit ipad time etc. But my daughter does not ask for TV. .. she asks for youtube/netflix.

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by jMyles » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 7:51 PM UTC

On Ubuntu and Firefox, I can't seem to change the color.