Super duper blog about suffs
The Concept I don't remember how I stumbled on it, but there's a party game where 4 players each hold a little handle with a button on it, there's a music playing, when the music stops the last player to press the button gets a shock. As soon as I saw that game I knew I had to make my own version. The Shock I immediately thought of the cheap high-voltage modules you can get on AliExpress/Amazon. I…
The Monsters Two little perfect black balls of hair have elected domicile in my home. They are lovely, cuddly and HUNGRY! When 6h AM rings, they come screaming and scratching at the door. Because I value my sleep and because I love adding to my pile of unfinished projects, I decided to make them an automatic cat feeder. Little did I know it would take me years to complete it. The Idea I had a few…
The Printer I recently purchased a used Artillery Sidewinder X1 on Amazon which sadly arrived broken. It kept producing "slanted" prints like this: Fortunately Artillery had a great customer service, they helped me try different things to resolve the issue and when none of them worked sent me a replacement motherboard for the printer. Once I swapped the old motherboard for the new one it worked…
The Repetition There are things you do every day, they don't always take long, but they always make me dream of a way to automate them. A task I found of no value and wished to automate is the action of locking and unlocking my front door. The whole process of getting my keys out, selecting the right one, inserting it correctly into the keyhole and turning is incredibly gratifying. I began to…
The Troll Leaving your computer unlocked when you leave to get some coffee is a risk. It's a security risk as someone could just walk up and exploit the free admin access to your computer, from which point they could do any number of things like install a backdoor or copy important files. But most importantly, it's a very powerful troll magnet. There's no better prank than changing someone's…
The Itch Sometimes you get the urge to try something, an idea come to you or you see something and you just know you have to make it. Me and my friends call this "the itch". Sometimes it would be a huge endeavour, which you would probably never finish, so to avoid adding to the huge pile of unfinished project you already have, you have to resist it. But sometimes the scope is approachable, that's…
What is this? In simple terms, a complete mess. More concretely, it's a piece of code that I wrote which computes a path using the A* algorithm and works entirely at compile-time, that is, all computations are done by the compiler and nothing is done at runtime. So at the end, the executable only contains the result, in this case, the path. Inspiration I asked my good friend Nyrox on the #sfml IRC…
LOGIC What is it? LOGIC is a fully functional 4-bit calculator made entirely out of cardboard, hot glue and marbles. I built it with my little sisters for a science activity, it can add numbers from 0 to 15 for a maximum computable number of 30. We made it from scratch and at the time I didn't see any of the various kind of calculator that have been made using Lego, wood and other, so it's a…
Facechat Why? If you followed my previous post you may know that I tend to go on IRC and that we have there some pretty cool bots. I was swapping between a conversation on IRC and one on Facebook when an idea struck me, how cool would it be to have those bots functionalitys directly in Facebook's chat? And even better, how about reading and writting Facebook's messages in IRC chat or reading and…
Any angle pathfinding To get smooth path there is a widely used method of using A* and then smoothing the path. Theta* is an any angle pathfinding algorithm, which mean that it allow for a path between two nodes even if they are not neighbors as long as there is a direct line of sight between them. Examples of grid path(left) vs shortest path(right) Theta* Where in A* a node parent's must be a…