Table of Contents (bolded ones are in this project log) General terms - the names I've decided to call thingsWhat's being stored - how the overall state is storedFile Parsing - how we fill in those arraysPathfinding - how we find valid paths...
Sunday, 20/08/2023, 15:02 There is no way I wil be able to finish this project log in a single day or even a single week, so I will just post this here, so if someone wonders "is this project still being actively worked on?" then, they will know...
Project Brief:Shoehorn a Raspberry Pi Zero into a NES controller. Load it up with RetroPie and wire up the buttons.Requirements:#RequirementJustificationStatus1System must be completely contained in a NES controllerA single-unit system is the main aim...
I engaged in some serious whiteboard tangenting last night on the subject of artificial muscles. Keep reading if you're bored as hell; this is a long-winded post.I also took a bunch of close-up pictures, most of which ended up pretty blurry. My D40 never...
Long time ago it all started with me trying to find new keyboard. After couple of weeks browsing through every possible manufacturer I got an idea: "How hard it can be to build my own keyboard! It's just few buttons connected to microcontroller, I'll...
Background So I got myself one of the fancy new smart watches, a Fossil Sport. TBH I'm not a watch wearing person, I have no desire for a tiny smartphone on my wrist throughout the day. This is not gonna be a rant or review of the Fossil Sport,...
Summary The various software tools were collected and deployed into a build virtual machine. A simple build was performed as a sanity check of the tools. Deets I generally use virtual machines for my project build systems. This make it easy...
I've led an incredible life, one too incredible to keep telling, so I'm putting it all here in brief. Buried among the rest of my stuff it will tell my story until I'm ready to write my book. One day I will, but until then. Born Jan 1967, same year as...
Overview: How did I go from simply wanting to assemble a wooden model of a TARDIS to buying about $100 worth of stuff to paint it, make it light up, play audio, and pulse its lights to the sound? But before we answer that, let's start off with the final...
So we gave it some time to rest, but it's time to walk through what our CypherCon hacking challenge was and the ways the folks who won were able to accomplish it. If we don't share, we don't learn. If you're thinking, WTF does this have to do with your...
Thursday, 08:31, 24/08/2023 Well, morning. By the time that I actually start making the exo/endo-skeleton, it will be buried under 3983932382 project logs. ... But I think this is relevant, because I need to talk about Dielectric Elastomers...
Introduction Polo and the Pony Express: The T Acronyms Primary Purpose Restoring Communication When Our Infrastructure is Down Secondary Purposes The Ancient Library A Clarkeian Satellite/Spacecraft Analog The Trill Tethered Rocking Orbiting Tracker...
It happens that I wrote so much on the first Project Log 74: Tech Tree for Mechs¹. that the hackaday Website started deleting older text. :| I contacted the Hackaday email asking if it was possible to check older edits so I can...