Completed part 3 of the Jam.
Thank you! 
Completed part 2 of the Jam. In this update, I’ve finished the time (which refreshes every sec), adde d a top bar, added a background, added a nice looking border, and maybe some other things I’m forgetting as well.
It ended up being a lot simpler than i thought it would be to get to this part.
Thanks for reading
Made it look a little more nice, including adding an image, changing the layout slightly, and fixing the previously terrible looking button. I kept changing the CSS to make it way better in my opinion.
Now I’m done with step one of the jam, moving onto stage 2.
Also published it to github now, so you can see the source code and the commits!
I’ll try to commit every devlog from now on, but sometimes i might forget.
Worked on the basics and the FAQ. I’m going to move the FAQ into my welcome message later but yeah. Just for the first 15m i did basically a set up.
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Worked on and finished the bottom part of my case! I just need to do the top now, which is a bit harder so I decided to get a 3D model of the board so i can make my case around it.
I was also fiddling around with inserting 3D models. The models were hard to fit perfectly, so it took a while.
I originally tried adding them in fusion, but then realised halfway through it would’ve been too hard inserting the other components as well.
1st image - kicad, 2nd image - where i switched from fusion to kicad, 3rd image - completed bottom case
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Finished working on my schematic and PCB!!!
I had to use a pin expander because even if I used the matrix method, I would’ve been one pin short :/.
Anyways thanks for reading!!
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Wired stuff. Had to rewire everything like 2 different times because i messed up and missunderstood how schematics work. Now I should be good. I’m one pin short, so I also researched ways I can fix it. I’m working on that now.
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Started working on my hackpad. Just did the basic bit of the tutorial.
Issue I faced (not apart of total time): I accidentally deleted a symbol library at the start which took about 3 hours for me to find out what I did wrong 😭 .
I made my first ever Slackbot called Yaknow! It was meant to be a cat themed bot, but I added a roll feature which I’m really proud of. When you roll, it checks to see what you rolled and sends a special message if you roll a lucky number. It also checks if you’ve beaten any of your stats (rolled 777, lowest, highest) and saves it to a .json file.
It took me a while, especially trying to figure out how to save and read rolls, which was challenging.
It now runs 24/7 on Hackclub nest, so go try it out! :D
To view all features and learn more, please visit the readme by click “See source code”.
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I made a .json storage file. Now every time you break your records, it gets saved! You can now your stats using /yaknow-roll-leaderboard. This took FOREVER including research. :)
Note: the bots currently not on 24/7 yet, I’ll probably do that next.
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It’s taken me a while to do these simple tasks but basically I’ve added a /yaknow-cat command that displays cat images from an API. This took me a while because I hadn’t realised that you needed to make it an attachment for slack to display it.
I also make a /yaknow-roll command that’s an rng that rolls a number between 1 and 1 million. It’s going to be a game where you need to try and get the highest or lowest number. A leaderboard will then display these high/small roles.
I spent a while figuring out how to save stuff to a json file (I watched a tutorial for some of it), however it currently only saves the most recent roll, slack id, and a timestamp. I’m going to fix all that next update hopefully.
Bugs I’ve noticed: There’s currently a bug I just noticed as I’m writing this, if you get lucky it sends 2 messages (lucky and unlucky). This should be a quick fix for the next update.
Note: My nest has been accepted, I’m going to try set that up after I’m done writing this blog :)
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Started my slackbot called ‘YaKnow’. Spent a lot of time reading the guide, setting up github and slack, etc. Basic commands work now.
I just applied for Nest, so it’s currently only online when I run it for testing.
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Creating my own portfolio
In this project, I made a personal portfolio site for myself. I’m only learning html and css so I’m proud of it. I’ve come a long way since I’ve started.
I made it look better by importing a font called ‘Lato’ from google fonts. I also fiddled around with a colour pallet generator to try and find a good pink or purple that matched with the blue.
I found using github pages especially challenging, because it wouldn’t allow me to upload folders and it also was glitching and not allowing an image to render properly. I ended up lowering the resolution of that image, and also researching how I could change the path of files.
When you’re testing my project, please just view it on github pages. Sometimes you may have to wait a little bit for the place images to load.
Also make sure to check out the readme for all the features. :D
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Updated visuals to be more appealing, and I experimented with some colours. Also I added images and places I want to go in my travel section, which took a while and I kept messing up. Hope you like it.
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Creating my own portfolio
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It’s going well so far. Updated the site to look more visually appealing. Also added more info and a contact me page on the website.
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I have officially started, made my portfolio working, and look a bit better. Although I’m still learning, I think I’ve made some good progress. I’m kinda going for a space vibe to fit hackclubs space theme.
