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What's something you've made or done recently that you'd like to show off?
I've posted this before, but it's been a couple years. It can be a hobby, a good deed, something simple, something complex, or anything in between - mainly, whatever doesn't fit into the more niche topics that are posted about this here (such as the weekly technical projects thread in ~comp).
I'll bite -
Back in the midst of the pandemic, I was interested in doing something in the vein of algotrading/technical analysis, but of course - as one lone data-yeeter against a sea of fintech companies, there's not much low-hanging fruit left in the financial markets, nor am I willing to put my bank account on the line. Instead, I set my sights lower, and decided to build my own market analysis website for the game Old School Runescape (an MMORPG in the vein of World of Warcraft, for anyone not familiar).
https://rune.capital/
For anyone that remembers playing "Lemonade Stand"-type games growing up, the appeal of Runescape merching is mostly the same. Trading in the game has no explicit in-game requirements - a totally new Runescape account with zero skills leveled or completed quests is has no limitations for trading compared to a fully-maxed out account (which requires tens of thousands of hours of playtime). Additionally, merchanting is the best money-maker in the game by far, outclassing all the late game bosses.
I've been making very slow but steady progress on the website over the past year, and we're looking on track to launch in the next few months. If anyone's interested in acting as a tester, fresh eyes are plenty welcome.
Ludum Dare 50 (a "competition" where thousands of people create a game from start to finish in 48(or 72) hours) happened three weeks ago, and the results just came in today. This was my 14th time doing LD. I've created a weird game for it named "Eschaton, Dark Forest of the". I am pretty proud of it. It was my first time trying voxel graphics and also using a pixel art program called LibreSprite, I always like to try something new so I used a kind of 2.5d look for the game.
The resulting ratings the game got are also quite nice, maybe the best I got so far. I am always particularly surprised by how ok audio ratings I now get on my games, considering a few years ago I was unable to make any listenable music, and because I still always feel my music is not very good.
You might want to look into buying a copy of Asesprite, which LibreSprite is based on. I don't know how much the community has built on top of LibreSprite, but I know that Asesprite has improved by leaps and bounds since they decided to close the source in 2016.
I don't really do pixel art too much, but if I'll ever do a big project using it I might buy Asesprite. I've heard good stuff about it before. But I have to say I was quite impressed with LibreSprite, it was able to do everything I wanted to do with it and it was quite intuitive. Goxel, the program I used for voxel art was a bit janky though. I think there are definitely better programs for voxel art than it. It still did the job though!
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/commit/b4099fc5f98c17504424ad4abfa8698fc9b663c2
This was my original TiMaSoMo back in November, but with this commit and the latest Canary, Magisk now supports full root on the Oculus Go. I have no idea what to do with it now, and it takes some finagling to give su permissions in a VR UI, but it is done now, and I can rest.
I'll post a picture or two tomorrow when it's light out, but I've added a ton of features to my Frankenstein's monster of an ebike. Big three are integrated solar charger, panels, and inverter. I've got a small 15w panel over my front basket, and I'm going to try and mount a (frankly oversized) lightweight 50w panel on the back rack with the charge controller. It's big, but it only weighs about 1.5kg/3lbs. While the onboard panels are mostly for parked charging, where they should be sightly faster than my wall charger, they will also charge while riding, and can add a solid 10-20% to my range if I'm constantly running the motor, more if not (I think I can pedal assist basically indefinitely in sunny weather).
Inverter was a stupidly overdone solution to me not wanting to have to run an extension cord or pick the bike up every time I had to solder or hot glue something. I had a spare 1000w pure sine wave inverter from when I converted my off grid system from 24 to 12v, so I just got a step down converter for it (bike is 36v) and I was good to go. So my bike is now also a self contained off grid solar installation with a regular 110 outlet.
Now all I've got left is to combine the guages with an Arduino. Since the LEDs are hard to read in the sun, I was going to get all the readings (Volts, Amps, Speed) and have the Arduino output them to either analog dials or ePaper, depending on how acceptable I find the ePaper partial refresh rate. Not sure if I'll get to that soon though, I've been working on that off an on for a while.
Pictures. Looks pretty rough but it rides fine. I'll probably replace the cobbled together wire mount with some aluminum extrusions, but aside from the current ugliness I'm pretty happy with it.
I made a wreath. We live by the coast and I've been wanting a wreath that matches the local ecosystem for a while. I collected everything over about 2 months and was pretty happy with the results.
This is charming! It looks well balanced and homey. Every piece is tied to a good memory of your walk/search, too, I bet. Are those rocks tied on there? What’s the round, black thing at the top? Praise, praise, and more praise 👏
Thank you! The collection phase was really nice.
The rocks are attached with wire, it ended up being the most secure way to attach them to the base. The round black thing is an abalone shell. Their fishery has been closed for years but you can still find the shells that wash up on the beach. They have a pearlescent interior, but I preferred how the back looked with everything else.
This is lovely! Do you have any tips on picking things out? I’d love to do something similar.
Thanks! I'd say get more things than you need and then some more. You can always take things back. Some of what I was really excited about didn't work with the other contents, and others didn't work well because of sizing.
Even once I started putting things together it took a few weeks as I needed more of certain things and took additional trips to the beach. If you're doing seaweed make sure you forage responsibly. There are places to harvest/cut from where the plant will regrow. Last note is that I dehydrated all the seaweeds but if you live in a humid climate (or a foggy coastal one) the dehydrated seaweed rehydrates and loses it's form.
I am currently designing a PCB to convert a bionair window fan into a smart fan with esphome. It’s my first designed pcb. I am putting the finishing touches together, and then I plan to have it assembled with jlcpcb. I’m super excited. The design process has actually been quite fun!