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What are you working on this weekend?
This is a thread to discuss what projects you're working on this weekend. (I've basically stolen this idea from Lobste.rs.)
This is a thread to discuss what projects you're working on this weekend. (I've basically stolen this idea from Lobste.rs.)
Working on replacing a doorstep at a local church, just took the old one off. Shouldn't take too long, as long as we can fit the new one proper.
[EDIT]: Didn't notice the topic was posted in ~comp, and now I look like an idiot talking about doorsteps.
Edit your post to be about the "internet of doors" and you'll be in the clear.
It's the perfect system. No code. No bugs.
Don't worry, I would like this on ~talk as well, post a step by step over there of you feel like it :)
Doing God's work
That sounds cool/bloody complex.
That's amazing. How complex is the neural net? In terms of number of neurons, number of connections ect
Can you find new phase transitions and critical points? What are the input and output layers? If you can send the presentation I would be interested.
How do you like Nim so far? I've heard a lot about it but I've yet to try it.
@chrismc replied to the coding challenge I posted with a Nim solution. You might take a look at it if you want to see a quick example!
I've got a monokai theme already. I'm curious to see how this turns out in comparison.
Working on my video game about building circuits!
Cool, create a topic about that when you feel like sharing something more!
I'll be sure to do so :)
What are you writing it in? Which platforms are you focusing on?
Game is written in C# on the Unity engine. It's for Windows, Mac & Linux.
You can play an early version right now for free if you want: https://iamsodarncool.itch.io/tung
Teaching myself how to connect a unipolar stepper motor to an Arduino Uno, and then drive it.
I've been interested in this stuff for a while but never quite go anywhere with it due to lack of inspiration. This is a work project though, so there's some motivation.
Mostly though, so far today I've been watching the football.
Neat! I'm also playing with arduinos. I'm trying to make a GPS tracking device for my moped which connects to the cellphone network via a SIM800 module, so I can send it a text and receive back its location and stuff like that.
Of course, it's stupid of me to do so. Such products already exist, cheaper, easier, and more reliable than whatever I build, but I'm also planning on doing like a bluetooth remote start thing, maybe add navigation at some point.
I'm still at the stages where I'm debating if I should use a raspberry pi for this, but I'm still having fun playing with the GPS and GSM modules anyway.
Not in my opinion. I think the joy of learning how to create homebrew versions of stuff can be an end in itself. Your project sounds fun and I expect you'll go off on all kinds of fascinating tangents. That makes it worthwhile even if your finished article looks like electric spaghetti wrapped up in gaffer tape and hot glue.
I waste too much time failing to think of original ideas. I should stop doing that and just build something instead.
Watching the 24 Hrs of Le Mans. That's all the work planned for the weekend!
And watching MotoGP tomorrow and, maybe, Brazil's first WC game later (if I'm in any state to do anything more than sleep).
Enjoy the race, flip. I'm in self-imposed Le Mans exile on the basis of exams but am looking forward to watching it in a couple of weeks.
Oh man, that's awful... I'm sorry to hear that.
At least you'll have an easy replay to find in 2 weeks. Hope the exams go well!
I have to repair an old weed trimmer given to me by a friend. Recently moved to a 2 acre property without so much as a lawn mower. We are on a fixed income (we are not seniors yet, my wife is disabled) so purchases are... scheduled. Not going to trim entire yard, but have to do something or the city (we are rural, back yard borders a corn field) will fine us. She said it worked, but it was stored outside and the fuel line and the primer bulb rotted. Already had a fuel filter kit from aborted attempt to fix another broken trimmer, just got a bulb yesterday. Tubing from the primer bulb will have to be scavenged from the other trimmer. The woman who gave it to me also gave me a tiller attachment, and wants me to bring it back to help her till a small garden. After that, I hope to come home and till my own small garden. (A little late in the season, I know)
Aside from that, I am planning to make some Thai Pie (see my post in ~food for recipe), clean up around the house, test our router (wifi is spotty lately), learn some python, work on my passive solar heater, and generally hang out with my wife and our dog. But today is trimmer day, I gotta get that thing working, and put it to use.
Edit: TIFU by posting this in ~comp... my bad.
If I have the time and a certain couple of active contributors on this site don't beat me to the punch (though they're more than welcome to), I'll be implementing collapsible code blocks to make topics with lots of long code blocks easier to navigate.
Otherwise, I'll just be doing a few coding exercises while I wait to hear back about my job interview. If I get the job, I'm going to be building a brand new system from the ground up. I'm looking forward to the prospect :)
Is the codebase open already or are you part of an internal development team?
Neither. I was referring to a client-side extension :)
This weekend I've been working on learning Common Lisp through Peter Seibel's book, Practical Common Lisp. So far macros have melted my mind, though I'm sure I will get better at writing them over time. I'm very thankful that the book includes practical examples, otherwise I feel like getting off the ground with a CL project would be very difficult for me.
Tomorrow’s Father’s Day, so if all goes according to plan... not much. 😄
That sounds nice. I've got some plans for a nice meal which should be good.
Watching football with my dad.
Perhaps I'll work either on my keyboard (building a Dactyl, 3d prints need cleaning up), or migrating my dotfiles (need to fix a bug in Fish prompt).
I'm working on writing a MySQL backend adapter for Kinto, a JSON storage engine that has a great browser client. I'm hoping to run it on AWS Aurora Serverless, and then host the application server on AWS Lambda.
It's a little tough because the existing storage engine is PostgreSQL, and relies pretty heavily on Postgres-only features. However I'm pretty confident I can get it working since Kinto has an amazing test suite.
Tore out some walls in my new house that one of the previous owners had built in so they could have a sound studio in the garage. That was a sold 8 hours of hammers, crowbars, sawsall and sweeting in 80F heat. But now I have a garage I can park in.
Tomorrow, more painting!
Working on my flutter app. I really want to have all the core functionality done by this weekend so I can start testing it.
I'm working on learning Audacity. Me and my buddy want to start a little variety podcast. Also working on trying to learn more about audio in general. I've started up a stream, and just have lots to learn in general. Graphic design, audio, video, and just what settings are best for me.
Working on my hackintosh. Trying to get a native Apple Wifi/BT card to slip into my desktop to make Continuity and Handoff work.
I’ve spent the last month getting tours of scientific labs at my university and this week I need to synthesize all this information into a workable presentation. Labs have crazy stuff from mounted sonic screwdrivers to arm-sized tricorders to brain-controlling magnets (and even crazier things).
I'm working on developing a lesson plan for a kids' coding and robotics event I'm doing in a couple of weeks. It's been a lot of me messing around with LEGO Mindstorms, Sphero Edu and Blockly. It's been a pretty nice excuse to play with toys at work.
I'm continuing work on my DeaDBeeF web UI. I pull information through the music player's CLI, but might want to connect directly to its UNIX socket to get more information in the future.