I just finished my blot submission. I based this on my team's FRC Logo, where this generates a new unique team logo while still resembling it. I found getting the gear to generate (it changes shape every time), as well as figuring out how to make the flames random but not a mess of lines particularly challenging. I eventually got the gear generation to a place I was happy with, while I'm still not huge on how I scale the pattern of the flames as my random aspect for that. Even with all that, coding art is something I struggle with, and JavaScript is a language I don't really use at all. This took me quite long, but I am happy with the result as I think it turned out pretty decent.
Here is a link to my pull request for Blot: github.com/hackclub/blot/pull/582
As well as my repo where you can see all my code changes: github.com/tqbed/blot8089Logo
Here is a photo of my favourite randomly generated result:
I created a game in Sprig. It was a little tough for me since I've never really used JS before, let alone to make a game, and ran into a lot of frustrating issues. I'm happy with how I got it though! Here's a link to the game in Sprig: sprig.hackclub.com/share/rQhveLAJV0mFYesU1a6V and here's a link to my pull request to the Sprig repository: github.com/hackclub/sprig/pull/1823
I made a calculator with Python that tells you how much each Hack Club Arcade prize is worth in CAD per Ticket, or it can take a number of tickets and tell you exactly what the most valuable items you can purchase with that amount of tickets are. This is just a "for fun" project, not really meant to find the "most valuable item" (which really is just the prizes you like the most). Plus, buying what you want is infinitely more fun than minmaxxing. Some values will be a little off because I had to guess values for items a few times. I'm not the greatest coder, and I'm pretty rusty, so this was a good project to get into the groove of things.
Check it out here: github.com/tqbed/arcadeTicketCaclulator
Sample output:
This 3DS has an outer camera that doesn't work (shows a black screen, freezes when you switch to it after switching to the inner camera). I decided I would try to repair it, even though I don't have much experience with 3DS hardware repair or modding. After fully dissembling this 3DS and cleaning the innards as well as cleaning and reseating all the ribbon cables, it did not turn on again. I then tried to reseat the battery, which didn't work, so I had to fully dissemble it again. This time I didn't do much but make sure to be very careful with the ribbon cables and reseated them, and the 3DS booted again. Unfortunately the 3DS outer camera still exhibits the same behavior. As I think this a deeper problem, I am going to quit for now here and order a new camera unit which will take a while to ship and do the very finnicky repair of replacing the whole camera unit (since you have to open the whole top screen and there's very delicate ribbon cables that are easy to break). It was still productive, I also replaced the battery with a new one.
