Silly site Devlog #1

I added a header and got the navigation buttons working. Also used a background image and styled it a bit.

MeowGame Devlog #12

Even more fixes and small changes

Some more decoration and visual stuff

I added some bushes in the background of two minigames. I also adjusted the lighting a bit.

Particle changes

I changed the particles a bit. Some of them should be more noticable now.

Pause menu update

You can now find settings inside the pause menu.

Audio fix

I found out the volume that was being changed with the slider in the game settings wasn’t working probably, so I fixed that.

Timer changes

I changed the timers on some minigames so the game is a bit more balanced.

Clicking sound

There is now a sound when you click menu buttons because why not

Timer visibility

The timer wasn’t visible in one or two minigames, so that’s fixed too.

README

I also updated the README a bit in preperation for shipping.

That should be all

MeowGame Devlog #11

More stuff

Pause menu

I added a pause menu. You can choose to return to the main menu now. Thanks to whoever gave me this idea.

Some particles

I added a few particles to some levels.

The first minigame

I changed it a bit and also added some lanterns

Controls

Controls for the next minigame are now visible during the intermission. Also added arrow keys and stuff back into the controls.

Ambient sound

I added ambient sound to all levels (I think)

Blare Devlog #4

I was wrong.

Turns out I still had to do the firmware. So here it is. It’s not much, but it should suffice. I can always work on it later but for now I’ll leave it like that so that I can make sure the screen works first once I get the parts.

Blare Devlog #3

Decorated the case a bit

I added some things to the case. I don’t know if it looks good but it looks like that now.

Also the PCB

I added a bunch of SVG’s to the silkscreen. Forgot a picture.

That should be all, I should be able to submit now, once I organize the repo a bit and write a README.

It works!

(i)Pad Devlog #7

I did it! I did a thing!

Behold, my creation.

Anyway, yeah, this is it. In all its glory. It took quite a lot of time to write the firmware but I finally got one I’m happy with.

It has 4 layers:

• Base: Playback things, also open Spotify
• Layer 1: A bunch of function keys
• Layer 2: Opening task manager and other stuff that may be useful
• Layer 3: Resizing windows and stuff.

The OLED display

It just displays the current layer. Also a small box that bounces around.

The LEDs

The first LED indicates the layer. The rest of them play a wave animation every time a key is pressed.

CAD designing

The knob was quite annoying to print because of tolerances and stuff but after 4 attempts it works now. Fusion360 was really laggy while designing the knob for some reason.

I also finally figured out why the plate wasn’t working, I fixed that now. Took me ages.

Soldering

Turns out soldering wasn’t that difficult. I made plenty of mistakes but it worked in the end.

MeowGame Devlog #10

(Wow a 10th devlog already)

Normal maps and god rays

God rays

I found a shader for god rays online and decided to put them in my scenes. Very pretty things they are

Normal Maps

I found out that normal maps exist. I proceeded to add a normal map to almost every texture in the game. It isn’t a huge difference but it’s there and that’s cool.

Blare Devlog #2

Rewiring the PCB and making the case

I had to rewire the PCB since I forgot to flip some parts.

Also finished creating the case in the guide.

I can move on to decorating the thing now :D

MeowOS Devlog #15

Some small changes before shipping!

• Made the clicking and typing sound be turned on by default
• Changed some window width settings
• Changed terminal commands a bit
• Fixed the search menu icon size

I should be able to ship this now.

(i)Pad Devlog #6

It was in fact not the final design.

While creating the CAD model, I forgot to account for the pin headers that would go between the OLED screen and the PCB. I tried desperately to fix clearance issues and I think I now have a solution that works (kinda)

It still collides with the screen a bit but i can bend the screen back. I hope that’s fine. I cannot figure out where the heck the screen is hitting the plate.

I had to reprint the plate 3 times and it still only semi-works.

Blare Devlog #1

I made the PCB. There’s nothing special about it yet. I haven’t added any designs. Yeah thats it

I already did a lot on the hackpad mission so this wasn’t really that hard.

MeowOS Devlog #14

Added a pink theme

This was upon request by someone from slack, they wanted a pink theme so here it is.

Changes to the terminal

I reworked some commands. I bundled all the app commands into one, so it’s no longer “todo”, but “app todo”. It’s a bit cleaner.

Also did this with the themes, but I forgot if I did it this devlog or the last one.

Setting for maximizing window

There is now an option in the settings to hide the taskbar (the thing on the bottom) when the window is maximized. I really over complicated things while trying to make it work, found out it was just a one single line of code that was needed.

This should be all I think

MeowOS Devlog #13

Themes!

I decided do a complete overhaul of the themes. Instead of dark and light mode, there are no five different themes to choose from.

I had to refactor almost everything since the code from before was pretty poorly made.

Browser URL bar

The browser URL bar works now! You can now enter website addresses and they should show up. (Do note that some websites block iframes and may not work).

Some sound effects

I added a typing and clicking sound effect. You need to enable it in settings.

Small tweaks

• I finally changed the notes delete button. Instead of deleting every page, it now only deletes the current one. Also, the placeholders are actual placeholders now, so they hide themselves when selecting the text and reappear if the text is left empty. The title and date of the notes also get saved now.

• I found out why the music player playlist wasn’t getting resized along with the window, I was able to fix it with just one line of CSS code.

• Fixed the stopwatch reset button not changing the play button’s icon if the time was still running.

MeowOS Devlog #12

Some small stuff

Resizable windows!

I made most windows resizable. I had to fix a lot of CSS for that, but I’m glad it works now.

Also tweaked some minor stuff.

(Notice how windows are smaller in the picture)

MeowGame Devlog #9

Some small stuff

I did some performance improvements and added some particle effects.
I added a falling leaves effect to the 4th minigame (I think) and added some wind particles to a few other minigames.

I had to change the particles from GPUParticles2d to CPUParticles2d, otherwise the browser lags for some reason.

I forgot what else I may have done that wasn’t there before.

MeowBotMeow Devlog #2

Pretty much finished the bot for now. I got 4 commands (Added a joke and catfact command) and hosted it on nest. I (for some reason) can’t change the image and name of the bot, so idk what to do here.