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right now i am punishing myself extremely hard by working as many hours as i can on a burp and fart game. i try to wake up early so i can start my day job early, and so go home early. i then do chores and stuff and hang out with honkwife until about 8pm, then i work on my project til 12am or maybe a bit more. it's extremely difficult, i've given up booze completely and that has helped my energy levels. i also get out of the office when i can during the day and spend a good 30 minutes walking briskly by the seashore. basically i am digging my digital escape tunnel
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poemdexter posted:this is pretty much me minus the seashore walks, add a single crown and coke, and my game is about murdering children on an organ transplant waiting list that are ahead of your child. the main game that i am involved with in my day job currently has a quest where one of the characters stares at his own shoelaces for thirty six hours real time i am not joking
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sat. posted:
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Zlodo posted:working on your own game alone is very different than working on a large game in a team this. my home project involves a small team - designer/artist/coder. if you have the right chemistry with your buds then that can work a lot better than working completely solo. that's not particularly easy to find in my experience, though in my day job, i work on really abstract stuff such as performance optimisation, and i'm a tiny cog in a huge machine, so the two projects feel really different. also ea are actively anti-crunch these days, strange as it may seem. they have two lists of mantras, one for all employees, and a separate, additional one for the management track. one of the management mantras is BE HUMAN FIRST. this means that the robotic management overlords have to consider the needs of the pathetic, repulsive flesh creatures that work below them, and not work them completely to death.
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if anyone's looking for a low cost arduino clone for their blinky-light-in-an-altoids-tin project, here's a thing on indiegogo: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/9-arduino-compatible-starter-kit-anyone-can-learn-electronics he's selling clones of the arduino leonardo for $9. seems pretty cool
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echinopsis posted:welp fasttech does $9 shipped UNOS and like $14 megas. not sure if thats better than that i don't know much about arduinos. the leonardo has a bunch more ports than the uno afaik. what's cool about that indiegogo guy is that the more money he raises, the more "LEARN YOU ELECTRONICS" bits he's including with each board.
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Jul 28, 2013 22:29
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Jul 28, 2013 22:42
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echinopsis posted:"cool" hmm, an echo... from a penis??
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Jul 28, 2013 23:52
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PyPy posted:Does smoking weed and trying to improve my gamer score count as a project? thread title does say "idiot spare time projects" so yes, yes it does
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aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yyyyyiiissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss it fucken owns
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Aug 4, 2013 21:16
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Angry Moo Cow posted:3 octaves there's an 88 key hammer action keyb just to the right of the pic, plugged in to the midi in port, in case i run out of notes - which hasn't happened yet
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Aug 4, 2013 21:25
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actually i do have another 5 octaves lying around which i could plug into the piano's in, route the piano's thru to the synth, and transpose everything to get 15 octaves total
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Aug 4, 2013 21:28
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Jonny 290 posted:i have a 61 key and loving haaaaaaaate it and wish that i would have bought two 25 or 31 key boards instead. too big. i love my big ol piano but i hate having to lug it around to people's houses etc. for jam sessions. it weighs a ton. i jammed with the synth today instead, and it was just great. the factory presets tend to be pretty aggressive but the machine is perfectly capable of nice mellow sounds which fit in great with acoustic instruments.
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coffeetable posted:how many Who riffs make it into yr jamming someone made a patch https://soundcloud.com/novationmusic/daniel-fisher-vol-2-soundpack#t=1:54
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duTrieux. posted:hey guys if i can't read music or play a piano but want to start to learn what i should buy i totally won't abandon this idea like all of my others so do you want to buy a piano? get a yam p105 or a korg sp250
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The Leck posted:im the yamaha p series. i use a fender mustang 1 mk2 but that's because i am mainly a guitarist. that works fine for me but i had to set up a clean patch on the amp via the computer, which is a pretty wacky concept, because i am from the olden days. you might want to consider one of the very nice powered monitors that are in fashion right now?
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01011001 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyiY_3cyEuo here's a robutt. only fell in once filming it, too that's a gr8 robort
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WorkingPeer posted:i don't actually want to integrate the full arduino into the final device, though. you'll need to explain this bit
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WorkingPeer posted:as in i want to use the arduino as a testbed and usb interface to program the microcontroller, then pop out the microcontroller and build a circuit around it from scratch. so i can just buy another 328 and reuse the arduino. like so: arrr i see
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hubris.height posted:can't wrap my head around what kind of equation will result in smooth, quick, random, but manageable acceleration. it would help if i put an upper limit on it too aaagggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh do all math with floats and convert to int at the last minute also if i look at any more of that code i am going to get a brain injury, sorry, i know you are doing things for fun but gently caress
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Sagebrush posted:that's cool but get one of these. it's awesome http://www.amazon.com/Portasol-011289250-Piezo-75-Watt-Heat/dp/B003HHK7KG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1377384414&sr=8-2&keywords=portasol that looks neat-o e: i've lived my whole life using shitirons. i must get myself a decent soldering thinger
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:i have a hakko 508, which is just a very basic 40w pen type. its ok i guess, no worse than similarly priced wellers and such. im no solder pro but i wonder how much a nicer station would help. i still have trouble getting even small wires hot enough to make the solder flow properly i regularly use 25 watt pieces of poo poo that cost ten buxx and i do not have that problem, maybe you are not wetting your tip properly or something??? wet your tip everyday
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Aug 25, 2013 02:50
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echinopsis posted:orns orbs
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somebody make cobol for arduino
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i'm sure i heard someone say helveesha once
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it's ok, benzene is organic!!
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Sep 6, 2013 01:46
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"industrial grade" is what you use to get that authentic steampunk feel
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01011001 posted:
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Sagebrush posted:yesterday's idiot spare time project: i fired up the unused foundry furnace in the corner of one of the shops and started recycling our aluminum scrap into ingots. goddamn that thing is awesome. you get it going with the blower running full blast and there's literally a tornado of fire shooting out the top, and everything inside is incandescent this is intruiging as gently caress http://www.amazon.ca/Build-Your-Met...=I1ZUC8GEM1UXVX you start off with an aluminium storm door, some sand, an old vacuum cleaner, charcoal, some scrap wood, and gumption
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hubris.height posted:been reteaching myself maths owns
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01011001 posted:a month later is kind of like "on the way". still doesnt do water-to-land transitions worth a drat but w/e nice!!!
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i just got two arduinos in the mail. gonna duct tape em to my balls
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i backed this indiegogo to the tune of  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/9-arduino-compatible-starter-kit-anyone-can-learn-electronicsreally cool idea
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Arcsech posted:lol you can already buy all this poo poo for about $10 straight from china at fasttech.com i went to the shitpost store today. i looked in the bargain bin and it was full of you're postes
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i'm going to start growing veg next year. i'd like livestock but there's coyotes. so maybe i also need a donkey and a rifle
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Trig Discipline posted:a friend and i are talking about trying to build a homebrew rov. we're both massively incompetent when it comes to that sort of thing, though, so it will probably be more of a project where we drink a bunch of beer and then break some electronics and cameras by throwing them in the ocean mm, bilge pumps
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madeupfred posted:i dont know if they still do this but if you go to an elementary school book fair they sell a box full of electric bits for like $10, looks exactly like what's in that indiegogo, plus you give an elementary school two dollars. thge entire point of that indiegogo is that a lot of educators can't afford to buy arduino lemonardos for all the kids. what this guy basically did was to rejig the lemmonardo a bit (its open source) and get enough orders from people to be able to drop the price of the lemonardo from about $25 to below $10, as a not for profit venture. note that i'm specifically talking about the lemonardo, not the uno, not the nano, not the duedecimilliardobongo, not any of the other ones. it's easy and cheap, often free, to get hold of random electronic poo poo - this is not the point. in fact getting the lemonardos, for me, was secondary - i was primarily backing the guy's neat idea. BLUB BLUB YOU CAN BUY A THING AT FASTTECH or BLIB BLOB PAY A MONEY TO A SCHOOL AND GET JUNK is not quite the goal here.  fuk u lemonardo
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madeupfred posted:oh dang sorry i confused you with my wording. it wasnt a random box of poo poo, it was a perforated box that you could turn into a breadboard that was full up with electric bits the included book explained. again this happened a while ago so im not sure if the prices are comparable, im just saying that this kind of existed already. but yeah its a cool idea sorry again. gently caress YUO that sounds really cool actually
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