@haidenwery

I continued to work on the Slack Bot but I ran into problems with setting up Node.js on VScode so I had to spend around an hour rebooting my laptop, VScode, and redownloading Node.js before it finally worked. After finishing that, I worked on starting to code and implement my first commands. As of right now, I set down a template and finished two commands: /hr-commands and /hr-ping. The first, /hr-commands displays the available commands with a short description of their actions and the second checks the bot’s latency.

For now, I have to watch some tutorials about JavaScript as this is the first time I’ve really worked with it besides website creations

I have never made a bot, for slack or discord, before so this is new territory for me. After reading the introduction of the mission, I brainstormed ideas for the purpose of the bot. Reaching into my passion for cryptography, I have decided to make a bot dedicated to helping people practice different cipher, both encrypting and decrypting them. I decided to name it Heath Robinson after the machine used by British codebreakers during World War II, which was named after William Heath Robinson (he drew elaborate machines to achieve simple tasks). I worked through the first few tasks presented before making my commands, for now, which are presented below.

The picture isn’t showing all the commands so I will paste them here:
“Available Commands for Heath Robinson:”,
“ • /hr-practice”,
“ • /hr-random”,
“ • /hr-solve”,
“ • /hr-encrypt”,
“ • /hr-decrypt”,
“ • /hr-inspect”,
“ • /hr-tools”,
“ • /hr-trivia”,
“ • /hr-ping”,

After working a lot on the old Hackpad, I was unsatisfied with how it was turning out and realized it was too simple of a macro pad. I have pivoted my original Hackpad into something different. I started to design the Hackpad into my new idea using Figma and now I have to restart my PCB schematic to better fit the layout.

It will have one rotary control, one OLED screen, and 12 keys.

I have completed the schematic of the Hackpad. I am now making sure there are no errors before I continue onto the next steps.

I have started on one of the missions available: Hackpad. I spent the first hour learning the basics of KiCad.