Crafting
A little collection of things involving hardware rather than purely software.
During 2020’s Covid-19 lockdown I decided I needed something to do that didn’t involve a screen. I bought myself a bunch of jump loops and some tools, and gave chain maille a bit of a go!
New fledgling quarantine hobby: basic jewellery crafting!
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) April 29, 2020
Practising working with jump rings by forming them into a lil chain ^_^ pic.twitter.com/F95IjmDcc1
New quarantine hobby: chain maille! Playing around with some silver jump rings and getting a feel for making things do the thing :D
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) May 6, 2020
Nice to have a hobby that's not screen-based pic.twitter.com/f02xRe3B6G
Chain mail experimentation continues; managed to burn an hour or so doing the pattern wrong which was frustrating, but I'm only a few inches off a lil chain mail choker now. A few inches and any means to clasp it... pic.twitter.com/VF5sHB6HyG
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) May 7, 2020
I bygone eras I’ve also dabbled with arduinos, which are equal parts delightful and fiddly.
It begins... #arduino #elegoo pic.twitter.com/mIP2oYmXyV
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) April 26, 2018
What's that, tutorial? I can control the colour with code? WELL NOW.
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) April 26, 2018
Turns out "max(0, min(255, value + random(-10, 10)))" only doesn't work properly because max doesn't play nicely with other methods.
Work around success! #arduino pic.twitter.com/zyBhY3m8Z3
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— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) April 28, 2018
I JUST HAD AN IDEA AND IT WORKED!
I SHOULDN'T BE THIS EXCITED BUT THIS IS LIKE MAGIC TO ME :D
Massive props to @Elegoo_Official for their incredible starter kit! Great range of components :D#arduino pic.twitter.com/Y9Zkx1AatU
Can you guess what I'm going for?#arduino #snek pic.twitter.com/e6x7w49qu1
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) April 28, 2018
I made a Snake! Border and self collision, input polled at higher rate than movement is executed, random fruit positions, hypothetical win state, increases speed as snake length increases. Might look to implement text output, but happy with this :D #arduino pic.twitter.com/MGyLjDqjMS
— Jez 🌻 (@NinjaJez) April 28, 2018