Dycosystem — Devlog

What’s up guys! Quick but important update this time.

I leveled up from just a single perceptron to actually starting a real multi-layer neural network. First thing I had to do for that was build my own Matrix class, since it turns out neural networks are basically just matrix math wearing a trench coat — the weights, the inputs, the outputs, all matrices, and “guessing” is really just multiplying them together.

Matrix class

So I wrote one from scratch. It can zero itself out, randomize itself, transpose, multiply by a number or by another matrix, and add stuff to itself. Not the most exciting thing to build, but literally every neural network sits on top of this, so I wanted to actually get it instead of just grabbing a library and moving on.

The actual network

I also started the real Neural_network class, but honestly it’s not doing much yet — right now it just remembers how many input, hidden, and output nodes it has. No actual thinking happening in there yet. Next up is hooking the Matrix class into it so it can take inputs and spit out a real guess, and after that, actually learn from being wrong.

Also reorganized everything

Now that I’ve got two real tracks going I split the project up — Genetic_Algorithms/ for the ecosystem sim, and NeuralNetwork/ for all this neuroevolution groundwork.

Slow progress this time, but it’s the kind of slow that matters — I’d rather actually understand the math than fake my way through it. Thanks for reading, see you in the next one!

Necklace FPV Drone - Devlog

A from-scratch FPV drone, small enough to wear on a necklace with a magnetic quick-release mount. FPV camera now, AI vision later. Building it in phases so I actually get it flying before piling on features.

Goals

• Custom frame, designed myself in Fusion 360 (no off-the-shelf kit)
• Wearable - clips onto a necklace with a strong magnet
• Analog FPV camera, mounted so it’s easy to swap later
• Eventually: onboard AI vision, then full remote steering

Roadmap

• Phase 1 - Fly: motor, FC, props, frame. Just get it in the air.
• Phase 2 - Sense: add the AI vision module (Grove Vision AI V2 + XIAO ESP32S3)
• Phase 3 - Steer: radio, camera/VTX/goggles, battery
• Phase 4 - Wear: magnetic necklace mount, final frame with camera + magnet built in

Phase 1 BOM (flight test only)

Motor: BETAFPV 1103, 15000KV (x4) - 1.5mm shaft, M1.6 mount on 8.5mm pattern
Link: https://betafpv.com/products/1103-brushless-motors

FC: GEPRC TAKER F411-12A-E (1-2S AIO), 25.5x25.5mm M2 mount
Link: https://geprc.com/product/gep-taker-f411-12a-e-12s-aio/

Props: Gemfan 1635-3 40mm Tri-Blade, Clear Blue - 1.5mm shaft
Link: https://wrekd.com/products/gemfan-1635-3-31mm-triblade-1mm-shaft

Frame: Custom, Fusion 360

Full CSV: drone_bom_phase1.csv

Watch out for:

• FC comes with an XT30 power pigtail; the battery I’ll use later is PH2.0 - need to re-terminate
• Prop listing defaults to 1mm shaft - has to be ordered as 1.5mm to fit the motor
• Frame holes need to match both patterns above

Parts scoped for later

Phase 3 - FPV + control:
Caddx Ant camera (16:9 black), BETAFPV M03 VTX (connector compatibility with the camera still unconfirmed), iFlight 1S 300mAh battery, BETAFPV BT2.0 charger, RadioMaster Zorro, goggles TBD

Phase 2 - AI:
Grove Vision AI V2 + XIAO ESP32S3 Sense (both from icbanq), CSI camera for the Vision module not yet picked

Phase 4 - Wearable:
N52 magnets, necklace hardware, PETG-CF for the final frame revision

Notes

• Going with PETG over PLA for the frame - PLA’s too brittle and heat-sensitive for something that crashes and gets worn on the body
• First real test: spin the motors through Betaflight Configurator over USB, props off, before touching a battery or radio
• Keep the necklace magnet away from the FC’s compass for whenever GPS stuff happens

Open questions

• Does the Caddx Ant’s connector actually match the M03 VTX?
• Still sourcing motor, prop, FC, and goggles locally in Korea - everything’s international for now
• CSI camera for the Vision AI module: not picked yet

What’s up guys! Smaller update this time, but an important one…

I reorganized the project into folders first — all the ecosystem stuff now lives in Genetic_Algorithms/, since I’m about to start a second track of the project: Neuroevolution/.That’s right, I started learning how to actually give my creatures brains instead of hardcoded behavior! First step was building a single Perceptron from scratch — the simplest possible neural network, just one neuron with weights. I trained it to learn how to separate points above and below a line, and you can literally watch it learn live: it starts with a random decision line, and one point at a time it adjusts its own weights until the line converges to match the real one. Points get circled green when the perceptron guesses right and purple when it’s wrong, so you can watch it get better in real time.This is step one of a much bigger plan — eventually I want my creatures’ behavior to come from an evolved neural network instead of me hardcoding “flee predator, seek food.” A perceptron obviously can’t do that on its own, but it’s the building block everything else is made of, so I wanted to actually understand it before jumping straight to neuroevolution. Next up is stacking these into a real multi-layer network, and then evolving them instead of training them with math. Thanks for reading, see you next devlog!

What’s up guys! Big update this time…

I finally added predators — they hunt prey and meat, and now have their own mating animation that’s different from prey’s (gliding together with a little weave, nose-to-nose instead of tail-to-tail, then a baby appears). Prey also got real genders now, and mating actually mixes both parents’ DNA (with a chance of mutation) instead of just copying one parent. Prey can flee from predators too.The coolest new thing is “predatorify” — if a prey eats enough meat, it transforms into a predator! Still tuning how easy that should be to trigger.Also added a population graph (rolling + full history) and a click-to-inspect feature so I can click any creature and see its type, lifetime, health, gender, and DNA. Microorganisms are wandering around chasing meat now too.Basically this session was about making all the systems actually talk to each other — hunting, fleeing, mating, dying, and feeding back into the ecosystem. Starting to feel alive! Thanks for reading, see you next devlog!

What’s up guys! It’s me! And I am here to tell you my progress…

I think that this is the most progress I have made yet. I have made a lot of systems, and I am going to run you guys through it. The first system, is the actual environment, and actually made the triangles, but decided that I would make my own design and it is pretty simple. I also made debugging circles that you can turn on and of with right click, and you can add new preys with left click. I have the preys on the environment right now, but I am going to add all sorts of things later! Also, there is mating in the whole environment so the preys don’t get extinct. I am still playing around a bit in the parameters and I am going to add predators, since I added meat into the environment too. I really like this project, and I think I will keep going! Thank you for reading this devlog! (The video is a little taste and the show case of the environment)

I am here with the new information…

I made a new particle system to make a new vehicle that can pursue the mouse, and this will be a great way to start off since we need to teach the vehicle to move and pursue the target. We also need to teach them about avoiding the target. All I did was find a lot of information about that and finished making the particle system. I broke that particle system right now because I want to change that particle system into the vehicle. So I don’t have something to post in my pictures page right now so I just leave the picture of the very first none moving triangle vehicle, just so you can see the very first ever design of it.

What’s up guys, I finally started to start coding and…

Hello guys! I started to work on my code for this project! I decided to start from scratch, and start over! The tutorial wants me to use p5.js, but since I want to learn MORE :) I decided to right all of the code and the classes from the start and that is what made me code for THIS LONG! What I have right now is a circle that can accelerate and have velocity, and all of this is based off a custom class, and it also has custom vector creations! The whole this is really going along really well, and I really like the progress! Also, I can learn math along this journey! I hope you can follow along more in this journey and see you in the next devlog! This is the custom, accelerating, velocity, vector, sphere thing :) :

I am back with a new project! And it is not small…

I decided to start a new project, and it is a rather new type of project that I started to plan on. It is called DYCOSYSTEM. Dycosystem is a harware object either a cube or a sphere and there will be a syringe that can control the whole digital ecosystem. The sphere and the cube will both contain a special ecosystem, that will have digital life, and they will evolve as the time goes on. also, I will add special sounds to the animals to add sound and more diversity in the enviroment. I hope you guys can follow along my journey, and I hope I will finish this project! :) Today, I just went through youtube tutorials about vectors and inheriting and artificial life, so I couldn’t code, but still follow along! (I had nothing to add here so I just dropped a picture of my very simple plan below(IT IS ACTUALLY SO SIMPLE))

Finished the IDE!

Made some more models for practice and I am going to make a deep learning model and not use librarys to make a stt model

Whats up guys! Pickle JAR IS ALIVE!!!

I’m back with the biggest CucumberOS update YET!!!!! This is going to be our THIRD ship!!!!! Remember how pickle jar was JUST A BLANK CANVAS??? WELL NOT ANY MORE!!! Pickle Jar now features a DIRECT LINK with the files in the NoteTaker app! Mentioning that, Pickle Jar has all the applications that are in the desktop in the desktops tab! The only folder that is dangerous to touch is the red named ones, but it might change in future ships! Also, if you add a folder, you get that folder in the desktop folders in Pickle Jar. Also, I added more customizability to the added folders! You can now change the ICON of the folders and the NAME of the folders! And for the cherry on the cake, it is DIRECTLY LINKED WITH PICKLE JAR meaning that it will change right away! By my next ship, I will improve Pickle Jar, and actually make it able to store something in the folders! Or make it move around! OR IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE TURNED INTO A REAL OS (BY A LOW PERCENT)! SEE YOU UNTIL THEN! (Sorry that I posted this devlog so late, I had no time to post after every day…) ALSO I HAVE THIS REALLY COOL HOT BAR TYPE OF THING IF YOU DOUBLE TAP SPACEBAR TWO TIMES, SO TRY IT OUT IN MY GITHUB DEPLOYMENY!!! :)

GITHUB DEPLOYMENT: https://coder1529.github.io/CucumberOS/

Whats up guys! This might be the most positive devlog yet…

If you see below, you will see that there is a new kind of folder attached to this devlog! This is the first ever screen recording! YAYYY! I ran through the whole code today and finally fixed the error. The error was so easy that I could see that I have a long way to go as a web developer. The problem was the operating signs… (like what is this, a joke? NO IT IS NOT :( ) But on the bright side I fixed it!!!!! :) Also, if you see, you will see that I have a new app! Something called a pickle jar. This is a blank canvas right now, and is going to work as a finder app, file explorer in windows, later on! I made the finder app size changeable, maybe I would use this in other apps but no guarantee, and the vertical bar in the middle changes size due to the vertical size of the app. You can also add files now, although there is nothing to do with yet. But this was huge progress and I really like what I have done today. PLUS I REALLY LIKE THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE NOT CLICKED AND CLICKED VERSION OF THE DESKTOP IN PICKLE JAR!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):) Same as always, play around in my github deployment!!! (Sorry that I didn’t erase the pickle jar app from the start and there is no way to exit. I had no time to do this. Sorry again.)

GITHUB DEPLOYMENT: https://coder1529.github.io/CucumberOS/

Whats up guys! I’m back with cucumberOS! ANDD a new problem strikes…

I came back to cucumberOS thinking to actually making a OS like precise ones. SOOO I just came back to it again. I want to add something called a Pickle Jar. Pickle Jar is a custom finder for CucumberOS, and first I wanted to try adding files to the background, so I started writing the right click logic, but!!!! the problem struck. You know how when you do the right click in any OS, you need to be able to click on the menus when the pop up appears right? But when I clicked on the right click popup… you guessed it it disappeared. That was my first problem. I worked on it for one hour, and fixed it. BUUUUUTTT then the new problem came and it was that it was possible to right click on NORMAL APPS! so then it would ruin the whole feature! I just became so mad at this and will come back next time with a solution. By then you can play around in my github deployment!!! :)

GITHUB DEPLOYMENT: https://coder1529.github.io/CucumberOS/

Beat the terminal error! AND…

I finally won the war against the terminal error! I put the terminal in a that has the ability to be able to be scrolled and put that below the header!!! I also added a CUSTOM DRAG CURSOR to each of the CUSTOM CURSORS! So yeah, play around in my github deployment! :)

GITHUB DEPLOYMENT: https://coder1529.github.io/CucumberOS/

Finally Finished my 3 features! BUT

I finally finished my 3 features and was testing out the whole thing, BUT I found out that the terminal’s heading overflows! This was my first time hitting problems like this in this project so I spent 1 hour fixing this. The winner? You guessed it, it was the error. I still can’t fix this! I will come back with the fixed version of CucumberOS in the next devlog. Thanks for reading!

Made a new background settings app!

Now you can set backgrounds!

( I used my stardance picture as a background image rn :) )

Practices more data organizing and made my first ever machine learning model