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I will probably do the same for the other folders soon, but they are not connected. I have yet to fully debug the command line interface, especially after these changes. Will do that soon."}, {"post_id": 5979, "ts": "2026-06-10T00:56:27Z", "hours": 1.085, "text": "Continued debugging my command line interface and adding some necessary business features. Previously a new committee was only checked against the main list of names. Now, it is split by type of committee to prevent switching between types. Add ability to print suggestions to user if committee selections are double, advising them to change the other delegate in the same committee if needed. Fix twin logic error and place code into more organized functions. With this part of the debugging, I began to understand the importance of splitting all code into functions, and grouping those functions into classes. Previously, all my code was a rough draft minimum viable product designed to just get the job done. Now, with the need to edit things in the future and share with other developers in my team, I began to sort things into functions (which turn out to be amazingly useful and easy to debug). In the next update I might begin writing classes."}, {"post_id": 5726, "ts": "2026-06-09T17:00:07Z", "hours": 2.3719, "text": "Began debugging my command line interface code. Discover that the columns which referred to my Google Sheet were incorrect; fixed string in code. Bold print statements in terminal for readability, and fixed ANSI escape codes to properly clear the terminal. Fix iterator problems. Previously, there did not exist a global tracker variable, and since i reset after every while loop, the number stored to finalassignments dictionary was incorrect. Fix infinite looping in the while loop for edge cases where none of the conditions are satisfied. Now with a proper error statement and ending of loop. Added a continue statement to prevent code from pushing before the questionary interface has finished receiving all inputs. Most of these errors were small bugs in the system, not major conceptual issues. However, I did learn how to use the VSCode debugging feature while going through this, as it is a program that is easy to set breakpoints in and analyze variables."}, {"post_id": 5249, "ts": "2026-06-08T23:15:54Z", "hours": 4.1458, "text": "Finished making the Command Line Interface. It checks for availability whenever the user inputs assignments in the questionary interface using sets. Stores all assignments in a dictionary, which is then converted into a cell map after the user finished all assignments. This cell map accurately recreates the cells that were pulled, except that used assignments now get blank cells. School assignments go into a separate sheet, where they are listed as “country name (committee name)”. During this process I learned a lot about safely converting data between types, i.e. from dictionaries to lists to sets, and their respective advantages for later processing. For example, sets are great with the “in” keyword, which gives O(1) time complexity, an important feature when I expect datasets with 800+ values. I also learned some intuitive strategies on improving code efficiency. Instead of writing multiple for loops, using tuples to do multiple jobs within one loop is usually much more efficient. Converting the dictionary that contains {(“committee”, “country_name”): “sheet_coordinate”} into a dictionary with the sheet coordinate as the key and the value as committee and country name took some thought and studying into dictionary rules in python. The function add_assignments_and_map_cells() took a lot of editing. What started as a simple questionary function that returns user inputs in a dictionary evolved into a full input-checker and cell mapper. I originally wanted the latter process to happen in the main code, but I discovered that the function had all necessary variables, and that it would be cleaner to simply pass back all the completed variables. Also decided that pushes are inherently untrustworthy, because my data goes from Google Sheets into a dictionary into a cell map, and finally back to Google Sheets. Multiple edge cases and errors may be possible during this time. Implemented a basic checker at the very end to confirm against the counta() function built into the sheet. Screenshot is not all; have yet to test the code for errors. Very excited to see this work! It used to take dozens of hours to complete, with plenty of human errors (especially double assignments), but with the loop pushing final values after every school and only operating within the list of possible assignments, many human errors are eliminated."}, {"post_id": 1953, "ts": "2026-06-04T06:19:55Z", "hours": 0.7656, "text": "Added an Inquirer to confirm committee auto-assignments and add assignments manually."}, {"post_id": 1932, "ts": "2026-06-04T05:29:00Z", "hours": 1.2558, "text": "Finished committee auto-selection greedy algorithm, accounting for double delegation committees and committee types."}]...
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Title: Model United Nations - A Software Approach Title: Model United Nations - A Software Approach by @SeanBlitz | Stardance
Devlogs:
Finished committee auto-selection greedy algorithm, accounting for double delegation committees and committee types.
Added an Inquirer to confirm committee auto-assignments and add assignments manually.
Finished making the Command Line Interface. It checks for availability whenever the user inputs assignments in the questionary interface using sets. Stores all assignments in a dictionary, which is then converted into a cell map after the user finished all assignments. This cell map accurately recreates the cells that were pulled, except that used assignments now get blank cells. School assignments go into a separate sheet, where they are listed as “country name (committee name)”. During this process I learned a lot about safely converting data between types, i.e. from dictionaries to lists to sets, and their respective advantages for later processing. For example, sets are great with the “in” keyword, which gives O(1) time complexity, an important feature when I expect datasets with 800+ values. I also learned some intuitive strategies on improving code efficiency. Instead of writing multiple for loops, using tuples to do multiple jobs within one loop is usually much more efficient. Converting the dictionary that contains {(“committee”, “country_name”): “sheet_coordinate”} into a dictionary with the sheet coordinate as the key and the value as committee and country name took some thought and studying into dictionary rules in python. The function add_assignments_and_map_cells() took a lot of editing. What started as a simple questionary function that returns user inputs in a dictionary evolved into a full input-checker and cell mapper. I originally wanted the latter process to happen in the main code, but I discovered that the function had all necessary variables, and that it would be cleaner to simply pass back all the completed variables. Also decided that pushes are inherently untrustworthy, because my data goes from Google Sheets into a dictionary into a cell map, and finally back to Google Sheets. Multiple edge cases and errors may be possible during this time. Implemented a basic checker at the very end to confirm against the counta() function built into the sheet. Screenshot is not all; have yet to test the code for errors. Very excited to see this work! It used to take dozens of hours to complete, with plenty of human errors (especially double assignments), but with the loop pushing final values after every school and only operating within the list of possible assignments, many human errors are eliminated.
Began debugging my command line interface code. Discover that the columns which referred to my Google Sheet were incorrect; fixed string in code. Bold print statements in terminal for readability, and fixed ANSI escape codes to properly clear the terminal. Fix iterator problems. Previously, there did not exist a global tracker variable, and since i reset after every while loop, the number stored to finalassignments dictionary was incorrect. Fix infinite looping in the while loop for edge cases where none of the conditions are satisfied. Now with a proper error statement and ending of loop. Added a continue statement to prevent code from pushing before the questionary interface has finished receiving all inputs. Most of these errors were small bugs in the system, not major conceptual issues. However, I did learn how to use the VSCode debugging feature while going through this, as it is a program that is easy to set breakpoints in and analyze variables.
Continued debugging my command line interface and adding some necessary business features. Previously a new committee was only checked against the main list of names. Now, it is split by type of committee to prevent switching between types. Add ability to print suggestions to user if committee selections are double, advising them to change the other delegate in the same committee if needed. Fix twin logic error and place code into more organized functions. With this part of the debugging, I began to understand the importance of splitting all code into functions, and grouping those functions into classes. Previously, all my code was a rough draft minimum viable product designed to just get the job done. Now, with the need to edit things in the future and share with other developers in my team, I began to sort things into functions (which turn out to be amazingly useful and easy to debug). In the next update I might begin writing classes.
Moved everything into Object Oriented Programming Classes This included Gmail, Sheets, and Drive Functions. I will probably do the same for the other folders soon, but they are not connected. I have yet to fully debug the command line interface, especially after these changes. Will do that soon.
Fully debugged my Command Line Interface after moving everything into OOP. Change twin logic variable call (it was supposed to call list index 0, but called 1) to solve linking issue for double delegate committees. Fix relative imports by adding “.” to my init .py files. During this I learned a lot about how the python interpreter views files and locations. Also separated responsibilities by splitting functions. Now, my libraries are no longer aware of each other, to allow for easier debug and changes later. I will need to take out my business logic from the infrastructure and put it with my main files, to further separate responsibilties....
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Title: Planet Shalom by @shalabdulai | Stardance
Title: Planet Shalom by @shalabdulai | Stardance
Devlogs:
You can now read the current time from my webpage. Notice how I’m working on this at 2 am! Anyways, today, I added the top bar and the time feature. For tomorrow, I’m going to make a Window graphic design, and make it draggable, closable and openable. Bye for now!
We’ve made some progress! - my welcome window is now draggable, and closeable. However, there are a few bugs. For instance, the welcome window breaks after reopening it (as shown in this video). For tomorrow, I plan to fix that bug, customize my window by adding apps and other cool features. Bye for now!
I’m proud of myself for making it this far. I’m almost done with this mission, and I’ve created my first app icon. (Also, I fixed my previous bug). As usual, there are a few problems. First, when I select my app icon, it doesn’t deselect immediately. Second, the my app window hides behind my home window - so it isn’t actually visible. Ugh, I’m lowkey fed up with fixing these annoying bugs.
Lots of progress, guys! We’ve made 4 apps - The Archive, Photobooth, Gallery and Links. I have so many new ideas, it’ overwhelming - I’m thinking of adding a game mode, a contact app, making my windows resizeable, adding some sound effects/ background music. Also, I’m really excited to continue making my Photobooth app - it will be an app that creates a little photo id to show that people have visited my “planet”. For tomorrow: Make the app icons, and finish the content for the apps. Bye for now, guys. I wish you all the best in your endeavours.
I’ve attached my app windows so you see that progress has been made. So far, we have 5 apps but only 4 of them have some content. I still have to debug my Contact Me app, as it actually doesn’t send out an email. For next time, here’s my to-do list: 1. Debug Contact Me, 2. Work on my game mode 3. Add some of my projects to Archive
I’M FINALLY DONE WITH MY WEBOS. School came along, so I was busy and couldn’t commit enough hours. I had so many app ideas for my OS, but I couldn’t execute them properly because of my lack of coding knowledge (plus I didn’t want to rely on Claude code too much). So here’s my finisehd project. I’m super excited to continue working on other things now. I made a Photbooth app, but I didn’t end up keeping it in because I didn’t like the aesthetic feel of it....
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DIY Solder Fume Extractor + Air Quality Sensor by DIY Solder Fume Extractor + Air Quality Sensor by @james-lian | Stardance...
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[{"post_id": 71524, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71524, "ts": "2026-09-21T00:25:53Z", "hours": 3.2508, "text": "Devlog #7: Completion The replacement PCB board from JLCPCB arrived today, and I spent a couple hours resoldering all the components. Finally, it’s done!"}, {"post_id": 59947, "ts": "2026-09-02T00:32:00Z", "hours": 5.5417, "text": "Devlog #6: Getting throttled Attempting to complete my PCBs, and I’m going through it, fr. Fried transistors + attempted fixes After receiving my PCBs, I got to work to solder my components. I had ordered PCBA for any components I didn’t have, such as inductors, the barrel jack connection, etc., but I was planning to save money by hand-soldering components I DID already have, such as transistors and my entire MCU system. This also gave me the added benefit of testing these components beforehand, and it allowed me to go through several iterations of code on the ESP-01S. The first issue I encountered with hand-soldering was with soldering the tiny, microscopic transistor holes (it was my first time doing so). The copper pads for my PN2222 breadboard transistors are super close together, and with my shaky hands, I accidentally whiffed, put too much solder, and left a solder connection between all three pads. Whoops! I eventually managed to fix it with a solder sucker. But after soldering, I decided to test the transistors with a multimeter to check if they were damaged, and both transistors were duds. I probably spent too long trying to fix it with the soldering iron and ended up frying them both. After this, I attempted to salvage the project by desoldering some of the more expensive components from the board and using it on the second backup PCBA I ordered from JLCPCB. I managed to salvage the OLED screen, but while desoldering the ESP-01S, I broke off several pins, essentially leaving the chip unusable. I decided not to salvage the bigger chips (e.g. ESP-01S, ENS160+AHT21), and decided to just reorder some components instead for the second attempt. New attempt: flip-flop switch fix + MCU not working I managed to solder all components to the second PCB cleanly, without any hiccups. However, on trying my project out, I encountered two issues: The flip flop switch turns on the fan, but it doesn’t turn it off. The 3.3V MCU system (including the OLED, ESP-01S, and ENS160+AHT21 sensor) doesn’t seem to turn on. The first issue was relatively easy to fix. Turns out, I had forgotten to add a pull-up resistor near the bottom of the flip-flop switch, and thus my steering capacitors had no path to VCC to “refill” (reset) their charge after the initial button press. I quickly soldered a pull-up resistor to VCC to fix it. The second issue stumped me for a while. I found out that I had forgotten to connect pin 4 (EN) of the ESP-01S to 3V3, so I quickly soldered a connection, but it still wasn’t working. Eventually, I took a look with my multimeter and found the problem: my 3V3 logic chips were actually running on 1.23V for some reason. It turns out, JLCPCB had sent me PCBA’s with the WRONG BUCK CONVERTER. I had ordered an TDSEMIC LM2596S-3.3, which would normally work perfectly, but JLCPCB had sent me PCBA’s with TDSEMIC LM2596S-ADJ instead. I’ll have to either contact JLCPCB for a refund, or attempt to salvage the PCB myself by modding it. I’ve burnt enough allowance on this ;-; Below: desoldering fail, attempted fixes (2), close-up of LM2596S-ADJ vs what I actually ordered ( https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C42421958.html?s_z=n_q_C42421958&globalKeyword=C42421958 )"}, {"post_id": 54994, "ts": "2026-08-26T12:52:38Z", "hours": 5.3325, "text": "Devlog #5 CAD Modeling With the code and PCB done, I needed a frame to hold all of the hardware together. Therefore, I spent a couple hours designing two cases in Fusion360 - one to house the PCB, and one to house the fan and the carbon filter I was using. PCB Case This PCB case is a little different than the ones I’ve designed so far. For one, the MOSFET and the capacitor that arrived on the PCB assembly I ordered from JLCPCB were much larger than I’d imagined, so I needed to design holes in my casing to accommodate for their size. Additionally, the ENS160 + AHT21 sensor needs generous access to air in order to provide accurate readings. I couldn’t encase them in the casing entirely, so I needed several unusual holes in my design so as not to interfere with the placements on my PCB board. I ended up designing a snap-fit housing with two parts - top and bottom (my first time designing a snap-fit joint!). The top part has several holes to ensure enough spacing for PCB components such as the OLED screen and keyswitch. It’s not air tight, but I really only need it to keep the PCB isolated and make things more presentable. Fan Holder Case I also needed to model a CAD case for the desktop fan to hold it and the active carbon filter in place. The fan case itself is actually a very simple design - three separate “panels” held in place with 4 screws and heat inserts."}, {"post_id": 54243, "ts": "2026-08-25T04:02:06Z", "hours": 3.2061, "text": "Devlog #4 Finalizing MCU program I used the breadboard prototype I had from Devlog #1 to finalize a working version of the ENS160 + AHT21 sensor program on the ESP-01S. I use the Adafruit libraries for these components to extract their readings, and then display it on a scrolling background on my 0.91 inch OLED SSD1306. This program is the final step before I solder the remaining components onto my PCB, which conveniently arrived as I was on vacation. It displays the following information: Line 1: Temp (deg C), Temp (deg F), Humidity (relative %) Line 2: Air Quality Index (AQI), Total Volatile Organic Compounds (ppb - TVOC), eCO2 (ppm - estimated CO2)"}, {"post_id": 31068, "ts": "2026-07-19T05:01:26Z", "hours": 1.7156, "text": "Devlog #3 - PCB design Once I had the design finalized from the schematic, it was straightforward enough to convert it into a PCB. I spent some time rearranging components to try and use as little space as possible. I had to leave some extra space for the ENS160+AHT21 air quality sensor, as it doesn’t work without consistent exposure to air."}, {"post_id": 30977, "ts": "2026-07-19T00:12:45Z", "hours": 1.6228, "text": "Devlog #2 - schematic design After confirming that the ESP-01S was a viable microcontroller for this project, I continued with designing the schematic for the PCB. Power Management ESP-01S is a 3.3V native controller, and the ENS160+AHT21 and the I2C OLED both use 3.3V logic. If I plug my 12V DC adapter directly into the ESP-01S, I’ll fry all my MCU components. Thus, I’m using an LM2596 buck converter to step-down some of the charge to 3.3V. Air Quality Sensor + MCU This section contains the sensor components and MCU. The air quality sensors and the OLED both share the same SCL/SDA I2C communication pins, which we established was possible in the previous devlog. Flip-Flop Switch + MOSFET Since the pins on the ESP-01S are being used, I decided to try exploring other options to turn my fan ON/OFF. I decided to use a flip-flop switch circuit. This allows me to persistently alter the fan’s ON/OFF state by simply clicking one pushbutton. The flip-flop switch circuit is a bistable multivibrator. It has two stable states where it can output a persistent signal (either 0 or 1), thus why we say it can represent a single bit of information. One of the states (transistors) is connected to a MOSFET (STP55NF06L), a heavy-duty voltage-controlled component which handles heavy loads much better than a simple transistor. The MOSFET helps control the fan. I attached a flyback diode in parallel to the fan. Because a fan is fundamentally wire coiled around magnets (an inductor), when the flip-flop switch suddenly turns off, the magnetic field of the fan collapses, converting back into an extremely high-voltage electric signal that, if not protected against, could instantly fry my MOSFET. The flyback diode allows the current to loop back around through the inductor until it is harmlessly dissipated as heat. Power-On Circuit On its own, the flip-flop switch’s initial state is hard to control . It’s based on chance, and small manufacturing differences between identical resistors and capacitors used in the circuit. To ensure the flip-flop switch always initializes to an OFF state, I added a tiny 10nF capacitor to one of the transistors. This makes one of the transistors slightly slower, thus ensuring the other one will always “win” the race condition. Next, I’ll be designing the PCB and programming the ESP-01S!"}, {"post_id": 30435, "ts": "2026-07-17T23:44:14Z", "hours": 0.7667, "text": "Devlog #1 - breadboard prototype I’ve been soldering a lot more recently thanks to starting a variety of electronics projects, and I’m starting to feel the need to get a fume extractor and some sort of air quality sensor to monitor my workspace. After some consideration, I decided making my own fume extractor would be a fun project idea, and also a great way to use up some electronics components that I have lying around. Components To make this project, I ordered some cheap $6 12V cooling fans meant for PC setups. For the microcontroller, I’ll be using an ESP-01S, an ENS160+AHT21 (which can measure air quality and VOCs), and an I2C 0.91 inch OLED display, all components I already have. I spent some time desoldering the OLED display from an older PCB project to reuse it in this one. Breadboarding The ESP-01S is an incredibly small controller, with only two pins (GPIO0 and GPIO2) available as digital pins (apart from RX and TX, but I plan to use those for debugging). Since both the OLED and the ENS160+AHT21 are I2C components that communicate with Serial Data (SDA) and Serial Clock (SCL), theoretically these components could share GPIO0 and GPIO2 as SDA and SCL pins if they had different device addresses. However, to be sure, I breadboarded and flashed a quick program to output the addresses and confirm that I had three separate, unique identifiers. Now that I have this information, I’m ready to design the PCB next."}]...
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Title: DIY Solder Fume Extractor + Air Quality Sen Title: DIY Solder Fume Extractor + Air Quality Sensor by @james-lian | Stardance
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Devlog #1 - breadboard prototype I’ve been soldering a lot more recently thanks to starting a variety of electronics projects, and I’m starting to feel the need to get a fume extractor and some sort of air quality sensor to monitor my workspace. After some consideration, I decided making my own fume extractor would be a fun project idea, and also a great way to use up some electronics components that I have lying around. Components To make this project, I ordered some cheap $6 12V cooling fans meant for PC setups. For the microcontroller, I’ll be using an ESP-01S, an ENS160+AHT21 (which can measure air quality and VOCs), and an I2C 0.91 inch OLED display, all components I already have. I spent some time desoldering the OLED display from an older PCB project to reuse it in this one. Breadboarding The ESP-01S is an incredibly small controller, with only two pins (GPIO0 and GPIO2) available as digital pins (apart from RX and TX, but I plan to use those for debugging). Since both the OLED and the ENS160+AHT21 are I2C components that communicate with Serial Data (SDA) and Serial Clock (SCL), theoretically these components could share GPIO0 and GPIO2 as SDA and SCL pins if they had different device addresses. However, to be sure, I breadboarded and flashed a quick program to output the addresses and confirm that I had three separate, unique identifiers. Now that I have this information, I’m ready to design the PCB next.
Devlog #2 - schematic design After confirming that the ESP-01S was a viable microcontroller for this project, I continued with designing the schematic for the PCB. Power Management ESP-01S is a 3.3V native controller, and the ENS160+AHT21 and the I2C OLED both use 3.3V logic. If I plug my 12V DC adapter directly into the ESP-01S, I’ll fry all my MCU components. Thus, I’m using an LM2596 buck converter to step-down some of the charge to 3.3V. Air Quality Sensor + MCU This section contains the sensor components and MCU. The air quality sensors and the OLED both share the same SCL/SDA I2C communication pins, which we established was possible in the previous devlog. Flip-Flop Switch + MOSFET Since the pins on the ESP-01S are being used, I decided to try exploring other options to turn my fan ON/OFF. I decided to use a flip-flop switch circuit. This allows me to persistently alter the fan’s ON/OFF state by simply clicking one pushbutton. The flip-flop switch circuit is a bistable multivibrator. It has two stable states where it can output a persistent signal (either 0 or 1), thus why we say it can represent a single bit of information. One of the states (transistors) is connected to a MOSFET (STP55NF06L), a heavy-duty voltage-controlled component which handles heavy loads much better than a simple transistor. The MOSFET helps control the fan. I attached a flyback diode in parallel to the fan. Because a fan is fundamentally wire coiled around magnets (an inductor), when the flip-flop switch suddenly turns off, the magnetic field of the fan collapses, converting back into an extremely high-voltage electric signal that, if not protected against, could instantly fry my MOSFET. The flyback diode allows the current to loop back around through the inductor until it is harmlessly dissipated as heat. Power-On Circuit On its own, the flip-flop switch’s initial state is hard to control . It’s based on chance, and small manufacturing differences between identical resistors and capacitors used in the circuit. To ensure the flip-flop switch always initializes to an OFF state, I added a tiny 10nF capacitor to one of the transistors. This makes one of the transistors slightly slower, thus ensuring the other one will always “win” the race condition. Next, I’ll be designing the PCB and programming the ESP-01S!
Devlog #3 - PCB design Once I had the design finalized from the schematic, it was straightforward enough to convert it into a PCB. I spent some time rearranging components to try and use as little space as possible. I had to leave some extra space for the ENS160+AHT21 air quality sensor, as it doesn’t work without consistent exposure to air.
Devlog #4 Finalizing MCU program I used the breadboard prototype I had from Devlog #1 to finalize a working version of the ENS160 + AHT21 sensor program on the ESP-01S. I use the Adafruit libraries for these components to extract their readings, and then display it on a scrolling background on my 0.91 inch OLED SSD1306. This program is the final step before I solder the remaining components onto my PCB, which conveniently arrived as I was on vacation. It displays the following information: Line 1: Temp (deg C), Temp (deg F), Humidity (relative %) Line 2: Air Quality Index (AQI), Total Volatile Organic Compounds (ppb - TVOC), eCO2 (ppm - estimated CO2)
Devlog #5 CAD Modeling With the code and PCB done, I needed a frame to hold all of the hardware together. Therefore, I spent a couple hours designing two cases in Fusion360 - one to house the PCB, and one to house the fan and the carbon filter I was using. PCB Case This PCB case is a little different than the ones I’ve designed so far. For one, the MOSFET and the capacitor that arrived on the PCB assembly I ordered from JLCPCB were much larger than I’d imagined, so I needed to design holes in my casing to accommodate for their size. Additionally, the ENS160 + AHT21 sensor needs generous access to air in order to provide accurate readings. I couldn’t encase them in the casing entirely, so I needed several unusual holes in my design so as not to interfere with the placements on my PCB board. I ended up designing a snap-fit housing with two parts - top and bottom (my first time designing a snap-fit joint!). The top part has several holes to ensure enough spacing for PCB components such as the OLED screen and keyswitch. It’s not air tight, but I really only need it to keep the PCB isolated and make things more presentable. Fan Holder Case I also needed to model a CAD case for the desktop fan to hold it and the active carbon filter in place. The fan case itself is actually a very simple design - three separate “panels” held in place with 4 screws and heat inserts.
Devlog #6: Getting throttled Attempting to complete my PCBs, and I’m going through it, fr. Fried transistors + attempted fixes After receiving my PCBs, I got to work to solder my components. I had ordered PCBA for any components I didn’t have, such as inductors, the barrel jack connection, etc., but I was planning to save money by hand-soldering components I DID already have, such as transistors and my entire MCU system. This also gave me the added benefit of testing these components beforehand, and it allowed me to go through several iterations of code on the ESP-01S. The first issue I encountered with hand-soldering was with soldering the tiny, microscopic transistor holes (it was my first time doing so). The copper pads for my PN2222 breadboard transistors are super close together, and with my shaky hands, I accidentally whiffed, put too much solder, and left a solder connection between all three pads. Whoops! I eventually managed to fix it with a solder sucker. But after soldering, I decided to test the transistors with a multimeter to check if they were damaged, and both transistors were duds. I probably spent too long trying to fix it with the soldering iron and ended up frying them both. After this, I attempted to salvage the project by desoldering some of the more expensive components from the board and using it on the second backup PCBA I ordered from JLCPCB. I managed to salvage the OLED screen, but while desoldering the ESP-01S, I broke off several pins, essentially leaving the chip unusable. I decided not to salvage the bigger chips (e.g. ESP-01S, ENS160+AHT21), and decided to just reorder some components instead for the second attempt. New attempt: flip-flop switch fix + MCU not working I managed to solder all components to the second PCB cleanly, without any hiccups. However, on trying my project out, I encountered two issues: The flip flop switch turns on the fan, but it doesn’t turn it off. The 3.3V MCU system (including the OLED, ESP-01S, and ENS160+AHT21 sensor) doesn’t seem to turn on. The first issue was relatively easy to fix. Turns out, I had forgotten to add a pull-up resistor near the bottom of the flip-flop switch, and thus my steering capacitors had no path to VCC to “refill” (reset) their charge after the initial button press. I quickly soldered a pull-up resistor to VCC to fix it. The second issue stumped me for a while. I found out that I had forgotten to connect pin 4 (EN) of the ESP-01S to 3V3, so I quickly soldered a connection, but it still wasn’t working. Eventually, I took a look with my multimeter and found the problem: my 3V3 logic chips were actually running on 1.23V for some reason. It turns out, JLCPCB had sent me PCBA’s with the WRONG BUCK CONVERTER. I had ordered an TDSEMIC LM2596S-3.3, which would normally work perfectly, but JLCPCB had sent me PCBA’s with TDSEMIC LM2596S-ADJ instead. I’ll have to either contact JLCPCB for a refund, or attempt to salvage the PCB myself by modding it. I’ve burnt enough allowance on this ;-; Below: desoldering fail, attempted fixes (2), close-up of LM2596S-ADJ vs what I actually ordered ( https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C42421958.html?s_z=n_q_C42421958&globalKeyword=C42421958 )
Devlog #7: Completion The replacement PCB board from JLCPCB arrived today, and I spent a couple hours resoldering all the components. Finally, it’s done!
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I made a small hobbyist solder fume extractor complete with an air quality sensor for soldering applications. Features include: powered by a 12V DC power supply 0.91inch OLED SSD1306 LM2596-3.3 buck converter for 3V3 supply ENS160+AHT21 sensor to detect VOCs and eCO2 ESP-01S microcontroller custom 3d-printed casing 12V desk fan which pulls solder fumes through an activated carbon filter flip flop switch circuit + MOSFET to control the fan, flyback diode to prevent MOSFET damage A challenge that pushed the project’s completion date back was a manufacturing error that occurred on my PCB. The specific buck converter I ordered from JLCPCB assembly was the LM2596-3.3, but the first batch that was sent to me had the LM2596-ADJ, which output the default ~1.3V instead of 3V3. I only found out about this after soldering on both PCB boards, which meant I had wasted time, effort, and some good usable components which I failed to desolder....
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tab of stars by @arsenal4eva | Stardance
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Title: tab of stars by @arsenal4eva | Stardance
D Title: tab of stars by @arsenal4eva | Stardance
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tab of stars: first draft complete, but having some issues with deployment. Trying to fix
Turns out I forgot to update my README how silly also good news I fixed all my stuff.
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Ayy finally shipped had some deployment errors due to unfamiliarity with vite but managed to figure it out, had a fun time adding animations. (The nasa api is slow, if it says connection timeout for the daily pics just refresh)...
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[{"post_id": 71519, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71519, "ts": "2026-09-20T23:59:07Z", "hours": 3.7739, "text": "Added a simple pass You now need to enter the correct passcode to view the drawpad, and it locks by pressing the left side button. Necessary to protect any… private drawings. 👀 But then i just leaked it to everyone who sees this. Oops gotta change it"}, {"post_id": 63669, "ts": "2026-09-07T16:31:47Z", "hours": 6.2542, "text": "A cool gamepad - 1st Devlog, DRAWPAD This is the first time I’m posting hardware, and I lwk didn’t know there was an option to record build time lmao. Uh ok. And also forgot to make devlogs along the way so we got this. ~ What is this? I’m making a gamepad using Arduino, with different games on it. With Arduino Uno and a TFT LCD Display, I made this tiny drawing pad, which will eventually be one part of the overall gamepad, with 4 different colors and a clear button. For size reference, it’s about the size of an airpod pro case. ~ Plan For this drawpad specifically, I’ll add an erase button and possibly more colors! I will make a retro pingpong game and add it to the overall gameboard. More to come on that. corn…."}]...
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Title: Drawpad by @magomango | Stardance
Devlogs: Title: Drawpad by @magomango | Stardance
Devlogs:
A cool gamepad - 1st Devlog, DRAWPAD This is the first time I’m posting hardware, and I lwk didn’t know there was an option to record build time lmao. Uh ok. And also forgot to make devlogs along the way so we got this. ~ What is this? I’m making a gamepad using Arduino, with different games on it. With Arduino Uno and a TFT LCD Display, I made this tiny drawing pad, which will eventually be one part of the overall gamepad, with 4 different colors and a clear button. For size reference, it’s about the size of an airpod pro case. ~ Plan For this drawpad specifically, I’ll add an erase button and possibly more colors! I will make a retro pingpong game and add it to the overall gameboard. More to come on that. corn….
Added a simple pass You now need to enter the correct passcode to view the drawpad, and it locks by pressing the left side button. Necessary to protect any… private drawings. 👀 But then i just leaked it to everyone who sees this. Oops gotta change it
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I made a drawpad using Arduino. It includes a screen and a reset button physically. There’s an intial passcode screen to protect your devious drawings and a clear button the side which functions as a lock button or a clear pass attempt. Currently there’s 4 colors and a clear button....
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Pineapple Chess GUI by @Theenash | Stardance
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Basically the original version was made in Java, but in the last ship, I got a lot of feedback saying I should port this to the web, so I did! — LINKS — To Play on web: Play now: https://shadowtech1234.github.io/pineapplechess/ — CHALLENGES — Here are some challenges I faced. When I first started porting this, I had to learn another brand new language that I had never used, which is JavaScript(last time was Java), so it took me a while to get used to it and progress was very slow at the start. Like a lot of hours I spent on the project was not really captured by Hackatime because I was on documentation and troubleshooting a lot. A very, very big task was efficiency. JavaScript is very, very fragile. I had a lot of problems where it would always freeze and stop, which lead to phantom moves in chess and broke it a lot. Learning to code in JavaScript with this efficiency was a bit hard because I had to make sure everything was perfect and there was no holes in it. Like for example in Java, I just coded in whatever way works, and there probably was holes and leaks in that but it wouldn’t be noticeable, in JavaScript it was the complete opposite. (This is what I noticed when I coded, I don’t know if this is factual that JavaScript is very hard when coding to make sure it’s efficient, it might just be me) Another problem was when I tried putting this on GitHub Pages, because the source for it had to be like in one folder I had to rearrange my code and rewrite some parts to make it work on GitHub Pages, The last challenge I faced was stopping. This is the same as last time. I have a lot of ideas to add to this, but I realized that if I did all of it, it would be a waste of time. This includes adding a evaluation bar, game export and import, game analysis, and maybe multiplayer. Working on this is a fun side project but I don’t have the time to work on it as much right now as I have a lot of work from school, and Stardance is ending soon anyways, so I wanted to get it as polished as possible and ship it. That’s basically it. I had a lot of fun making this, it’s not much but I will add features in the future, maybe in the next Hack Club event. Thank you!", "repo": "https://github.com/Shadowtech1234/pineapplechess", "demo": "https://shadowtech1234.github.io/pineapplechess/"}, {"ship_num": 2, "ts": "2026-08-03T00:03:27Z", "hours": 22.0, "multiplier": 14.56, "payout": 384, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "I made a chess software called Pineapple Chess. — SUMMARY — So basically it’s like any other chess software but it is pineapple themed(don’t worry if you don’t like the way it looks you can switch themes)! With 3 themes: Light, Dark, and Pineapple! There is a 2 player mode, if you have 2 people in front of a computer, you can play against each other on 1 computer! With an optional board flip feature! You can play against bots, powered by Stockfish, you can play against bots with different difficulties. And built with Java. — LINKS — Github: https://github.com/Shadowtech1234/pineapplechess/ If you want to download, simply go to the Github repo, and go to the releases tab and download it! For more detailed instructions, it is on the Github readme. — SHOWCASE VIDEO — Showcase video is available on the very top of the readme in the Github repo. (I wasn’t able to attach the video to this Ship post) — CHALLENGES — Here are some challenges I faced. When I first started, I had to learn a brand new language that I had never used, which is Java, so it took me a while to get used to it and progress was very slow at the start. Like a lot of hours I spent on the project was not really captured by Hackatime because I was on documentation and troubleshooting a lot. A very, very big task was app resizing. What I mean is when you resize the app, for example make it fit the entire screen, the app has to make every component scale up, or scale down with a ratio to make it look good. This took me so long to implement and it works, there is just one problem, you have to click the app after you change the window for the resize to apply, so it looks weird when you resize, but you just need to click on the app to refresh it. Hopefully I can fix that in the next update of my app. Another problem was when I tried building my app to an installer to make it as easy as possible for the user. It just never worked for a while. Like every time I tried to build it would give me a problem, and after I fixed it it just gave me another. This went on 7 times. Of the times I had to rewrite a couple major parts of my app including image loading of the pieces, it worked well in developer mode(which is just clicking the run button in VS Code), but Java kind works differently when compiled into a finished product, so the images didn’t load in a couple builds. But now it works and has a user-friendly installer. The last challenge I faced was stopping. I have a lot of ideas to add to this, but I realized that if I did all of it, it would be a waste of time. This includes multi-platform support over MacOS and Linux, not only Windows. Working on this is a fun side project but I want to do something more meaningful. So I am shipping this project right now and trying to make it as clean as possible with the current features of the app, and moving on to the next project. I will still be working on this project, but I will probably come back to it after summer ends or ever later. That’s basically it. I had a lot of fun making the app, it’s not much but I will add features in the future. Thank you!", "repo": "https://github.com/Shadowtech1234/pineapplechess", "demo": "https://shadowtech1234.github.io/pineapplechess/"}]...
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I had to recreate things like: Piece movement Check and checkmate Special chess moves Turn switching Selecting and moving pieces Detecting when the game ends Since I already had the Java version working, I wasn’t starting completely from scratch. I could use the original game as a reference for how everything was supposed to work, which made the process a lot easier. Why JavaScript? The main reason for making the JavaScript version was accessibility. The original Java version worked, but having a JavaScript version makes it much easier to run and share. Instead of needing to set up the Java version first, the JavaScript version can be used in a much more web-friendly environment. Basically, Pineapple Chess is now significantly easier to get running. And That’s a Wrap! This is actually going to be my last devlog for this event. With the event ending in about two weeks, I wanted to squeeze in one last piece of work before it wraps up, and porting Pineapple Chess to JavaScript felt like the perfect way to finish things off. I know this devlog isn’t much of a change, and there are a lot of features in Pineapple Chess that I would love to add, it’s just I don’t have the time as I have a lot of work in school, and Stardance is ending soon, I will be working on this in the future though. It’s pretty cool seeing a project that I originally made in Java now running in JavaScript. The original version isn’t going anywhere, but now Pineapple Chess has a new form too. I will be shipping this soon, stay tuned! And also, thank you to everyone who followed along with my devlogs, gave feedback, played Pineapple Chess, or suggested things for me to work on. All of the feedback and support throughout the event has genuinely been really helpful and made working on this project a lot more fun. It’s been awesome being able to work on Pineapple Chess throughout this event, it’s not a big project like what other people make but it was a passion project for me for fun. One last update before the event ends. 🍍❤️ Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you around the next Hack Club event!"}, {"post_id": 38375, "ts": "2026-07-31T18:34:51Z", "hours": 1.9519, "text": "I WAS SANE BEFORE TODAY😭😭😭. I have done it, I have finished my app. That part was so easy. But compiling it into a downloadable installer has cost me so much I might as well have sold my soul. I had to build the stupid thing 7 TIMES. I had to mess around with the dependencies for so long, this took like 8 hours but most of it was just trying to fix dependencies and working in the terminal trying to debug why my installer wont work. My installer now works never the less. It is very easy to install in a user’s perspective and it automatically makes a shortcut in the desktop. Sadly this installer is only for windows, sorry Mac and Linux. I will be shipping this project soon. As you can see in the pictures attached, it created the shortcut! And it works!🎉🎉🎉"}, {"post_id": 37946, "ts": "2026-07-31T00:05:38Z", "hours": 4.3528, "text": "This for some reason genuinely took the life out of me. I have finally added the whole point of this chess app, PINEAPPLES! NEW BOARD COLOR, NEW UI THEME, NEW CHESS PEICES. Don’t worry, if you or any other user doesn’t like it, I have added the ability in settings to be able to switch between Light, Dark, and Pineapple Mode. But why would you not want to play with this beauty! The addition of the theme was easy, it was the settings that your able to switch themes that was the hard part. On top of that since I added new chess pieces, the entirety of the image load system in my code and organization of the resources in the source code had to be completely redone, the re-organizing for the file management was not tracked by hackatime but that took way too long. But yea, yay🎉🎉🎉"}, {"post_id": 30885, "ts": "2026-07-18T21:08:29Z", "hours": 4.2989, "text": "I have successfully added Stockfish, an chess engine that is extremely powerful to my app. Took a bit of work, but now you can play against a bot! I have added setting to customize the game against Stockfish if you click it so there’s difficulty selection and the side chooser which lets you choose which side you want to play on. Hardest part was getting the code to work with Stockfish as Stockfish communicates via the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol. The chess engine itself is basically a command line and you can put in the current position and it will spit out the best move in the command line. Its not very user friendly which is why chess GUI’s come in to play like mine, my code translates it from he UI to the command line and vice versa. UCI lets me to be able to use any chess engine I want as long as it uses the UCI protocol, meaning in the future if I decide to make my own chess engine, I can implement it to my app, but for now it will remain as Stockfish."}, {"post_id": 25560, "ts": "2026-07-09T21:44:03Z", "hours": 3.5764, "text": "A LOT OF NEW STUFF. Easiest part was dark mode yay. but what took me 3 hours and was so hard to do was reseizing, what I mean is you can resize the app how ever way and it works with any screen and it always sets the board at the center, I don’t know why it took this long but I did it yay. I have attached a example of it centering it self on multiple aspect ratios."}, {"post_id": 15990, "ts": "2026-06-25T23:28:19Z", "hours": 1.3036, "text": "for a very small feature, this should not have taken this long. i added 2 features, the side bar in the left for future stuff, the play button on he left allows to choose the game mode when i add the feature to be able to play bots, i want to be able to choose what I want to be able to do, either play 2 player or bots, so basically the sidebar is the foundation for future features. Then is the feature that should have taken like 10 minutes, but it took me a hour and a half. It is the feature that flips the board after every turn in 2 player mode because 2 player means 2 people are using one computer to play so the board should flip. Like it used to flip the peices were upside down, liekt he images were, and i tried to add code to make it flip but it didnt work, so then I added a seperate folder with the peices edited to be flipped, but then after implemeting that, id id some stuff it swithc the pictures to that folder only when the baord is flipped, BUT THEN IT STILL REMAINED FLIPPED. So i tried so much to finally figure out I did somehtign that amde the peices flip by themselves without editing and using the different stuff, but when i tired to remove the folder andf only use one folder wiht the peices IT STOPPED WORKING, so now I have 2 folder wiht the exact same pictures of the peices and it works😭. sry if I yapped too much but I needed to vent, In the picture attached it shows the baord flipped and the sidebar as well if you wanna see the final product of the work ive done so far. but im gieunly tweaking rn😭"}, {"post_id": 15336, "ts": "2026-06-24T22:21:00Z", "hours": 0.63, "text": "added a new popup system where instead of it opening a new separate window with the popup, it is more cleaner and in the app, my next step is to add a sidebar to the left and have like a bunch of different stuff there 😄"}, {"post_id": 15119, "ts": "2026-06-24T15:53:12Z", "hours": 1.2217, "text": "BIG PROGRESS, fixed possible move highlights. added a move history to the side, and added draw detection for all possible draws. Next job is hopefully being able to export and import PGN."}, {"post_id": 14788, "ts": "2026-06-24T00:56:39Z", "hours": 1.1747, "text": "A lot of progress has been done, I have put in all the special moves like castling, en passant, and pawn promotion. And I have also added check and checkmate detection. Also I have added UI popups that appear when you promote so you can choose what piece you want as well as the game over pop up when you checkmate and a rematch button which resets the board. So foundation of my chess game GUI is complete, I have recreated the game, I just have some small tweaks that i can do later like when you click a piece while you are in check, it still shows the viable options that don’t protect your king, but it wont let you move there but it still shows it. On top of that I also want to make the pop ups happen in game without opening a new window. But my main next step is add a move history, draw detection, which can only be done with a move history because 2 ways a draw can happen is when 50 moves have passed and a piece has not been captured, or the same position has been repeated 3 times."}, {"post_id": 14609, "ts": "2026-06-23T19:40:15Z", "hours": 1.9833, "text": "I have made my chess board render pieces, show viable moves, make moves, and only allow legal moves. Not all special moves have been added like castling, en passant, pawn promotion, stalemate, or even checkmate(you can take the opponent’s king and the opponent can still move😭)."}, {"post_id": 14437, "ts": "2026-06-23T15:52:11Z", "hours": 0.7981, "text": "I made the Chess Board"}, {"post_id": 14362, "ts": "2026-06-23T13:55:21Z", "hours": 0.6683, "text": "I have started my project, most of my time was taken switching my GUI from Java Swing to JavaFX. This is just a simple window so far but we are going somewhere. This isn’t a lot but I am learning Java, so its just slow and steady progress."}]...
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Title: Pineapple Chess GUI by @Theenash | Stardanc Title: Pineapple Chess GUI by @Theenash | Stardance
Devlogs:
I have started my project, most of my time was taken switching my GUI from Java Swing to JavaFX. This is just a simple window so far but we are going somewhere. This isn’t a lot but I am learning Java, so its just slow and steady progress.
I made the Chess Board
I have made my chess board render pieces, show viable moves, make moves, and only allow legal moves. Not all special moves have been added like castling, en passant, pawn promotion, stalemate, or even checkmate(you can take the opponent’s king and the opponent can still move😭).
A lot of progress has been done, I have put in all the special moves like castling, en passant, and pawn promotion. And I have also added check and checkmate detection. Also I have added UI popups that appear when you promote so you can choose what piece you want as well as the game over pop up when you checkmate and a rematch button which resets the board. So foundation of my chess game GUI is complete, I have recreated the game, I just have some small tweaks that i can do later like when you click a piece while you are in check, it still shows the viable options that don’t protect your king, but it wont let you move there but it still shows it. On top of that I also want to make the pop ups happen in game without opening a new window. But my main next step is add a move history, draw detection, which can only be done with a move history because 2 ways a draw can happen is when 50 moves have passed and a piece has not been captured, or the same position has been repeated 3 times.
BIG PROGRESS, fixed possible move highlights. added a move history to the side, and added draw detection for all possible draws. Next job is hopefully being able to export and import PGN.
added a new popup system where instead of it opening a new separate window with the popup, it is more cleaner and in the app, my next step is to add a sidebar to the left and have like a bunch of different stuff there 😄
for a very small feature, this should not have taken this long. i added 2 features, the side bar in the left for future stuff, the play button on he left allows to choose the game mode when i add the feature to be able to play bots, i want to be able to choose what I want to be able to do, either play 2 player or bots, so basically the sidebar is the foundation for future features. Then is the feature that should have taken like 10 minutes, but it took me a hour and a half. It is the feature that flips the board after every turn in 2 player mode because 2 player means 2 people are using one computer to play so the board should flip. Like it used to flip the peices were upside down, liekt he images were, and i tried to add code to make it flip but it didnt work, so then I added a seperate folder with the peices edited to be flipped, but then after implemeting that, id id some stuff it swithc the pictures to that folder only when the baord is flipped, BUT THEN IT STILL REMAINED FLIPPED. So i tried so much to finally figure out I did somehtign that amde the peices flip by themselves without editing and using the different stuff, but when i tired to remove the folder andf only use one folder wiht the peices IT STOPPED WORKING, so now I have 2 folder wiht the exact same pictures of the peices and it works😭. sry if I yapped too much but I needed to vent, In the picture attached it shows the baord flipped and the sidebar as well if you wanna see the final product of the work ive done so far. but im gieunly tweaking rn😭
A LOT OF NEW STUFF. Easiest part was dark mode yay. but what took me 3 hours and was so hard to do was reseizing, what I mean is you can resize the app how ever way and it works with any screen and it always sets the board at the center, I don’t know why it took this long but I did it yay. I have attached a example of it centering it self on multiple aspect ratios.
I have successfully added Stockfish, an chess engine that is extremely powerful to my app. Took a bit of work, but now you can play against a bot! I have added setting to customize the game against Stockfish if you click it so there’s difficulty selection and the side chooser which lets you choose which side you want to play on. Hardest part was getting the code to work with Stockfish as Stockfish communicates via the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol. The chess engine itself is basically a command line and you can put in the current position and it will spit out the best move in the command line. Its not very user friendly which is why chess GUI’s come in to play like mine, my code translates it from he UI to the command line and vice versa. UCI lets me to be able to use any chess engine I want as long as it uses the UCI protocol, meaning in the future if I decide to make my own chess engine, I can implement it to my app, but for now it will remain as Stockfish.
This for some reason genuinely took the life out of me. I have finally added the whole point of this chess app, PINEAPPLES! NEW BOARD COLOR, NEW UI THEME, NEW CHESS PEICES. Don’t worry, if you or any other user doesn’t like it, I have added the ability in settings to be able to switch between Light, Dark, and Pineapple Mode. But why would you not want to play with this beauty! The addition of the theme was easy, it was the settings that your able to switch themes that was the hard part. On top of that since I added new chess pieces, the entirety of the image load system in my code and organization of the resources in the source code had to be completely redone, the re-organizing for the file management was not tracked by hackatime but that took way too long. But yea, yay🎉🎉🎉
I WAS SANE BEFORE TODAY😭😭😭. I have done it, I have finished my app. That part was so easy. But compiling it into a downloadable installer has cost me so much I might as well have sold my soul. I had to build the stupid thing 7 TIMES. I had to mess around with the dependencies for so long, this took like 8 hours but most of it was just trying to fix dependencies and working in the terminal trying to debug why my installer wont work. My installer now works never the less. It is very easy to install in a user’s perspective and it automatically makes a shortcut in the desktop. Sadly this installer is only for windows, sorry Mac and Linux. I will be shipping this project soon. As you can see in the pictures attached, it created the shortcut! And it works!🎉🎉🎉
JavaScript Port After finishing Pineapple Chess in Java , which meant you need to download my app, which is Windows only, I started getting a lot of people asking if I could port this to the web. So I did, yay. From Java to JavaScript The original version of Pineapple Chess was built entirely in Java, and after finishing it, I figured porting it to JavaScript would be a pretty interesting challenge. The reason why I have to use JavaScript for anyone curious is because that is one of the best for web development. The goal was to recreate the game in JavaScript while keeping the same basic gameplay and features from the original version. This meant going through the original code and rebuilding a lot of the game’s logic in a completely different language. Rebuilding the Game One of the biggest parts of the process was getting the chess logic working again. I had to recreate things like: Piece movement Check and checkmate Special chess moves Turn switching Selecting and moving pieces Detecting when the game ends Since I already had the Java version working, I wasn’t starting completely from scratch. I could use the original game as a reference for how everything was supposed to work, which made the process a lot easier. Why JavaScript? The main reason for making the JavaScript version was accessibility. The original Java version worked, but having a JavaScript version makes it much easier to run and share. Instead of needing to set up the Java version first, the JavaScript version can be used in a much more web-friendly environment. Basically, Pineapple Chess is now significantly easier to get running. And That’s a Wrap! This is actually going to be my last devlog for this event. With the event ending in about two weeks, I wanted to squeeze in one last piece of work before it wraps up, and porting Pineapple Chess to JavaScript felt like the perfect way to finish things off. I know this devlog isn’t much of a change, and there are a lot of features in Pineapple Chess that I would love to add, it’s just I don’t have the time as I have a lot of work in school, and Stardance is ending soon, I will be working on this in the future though. It’s pretty cool seeing a project that I originally made in Java now running in JavaScript. The original version isn’t going anywhere, but now Pineapple Chess has a new form too. I will be shipping this soon, stay tuned! And also, thank you to everyone who followed along with my devlogs, gave feedback, played Pineapple Chess, or suggested things for me to work on. All of the feedback and support throughout the event has genuinely been really helpful and made working on this project a lot more fun. It’s been awesome being able to work on Pineapple Chess throughout this event, it’s not a big project like what other people make but it was a passion project for me for fun. One last update before the event ends. 🍍❤️ Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you around the next Hack Club event!
Ships:
I made a chess software called Pineapple Chess. — SUMMARY — So basically it’s like any other chess software but it is pineapple themed(don’t worry if you don’t like the way it looks you can switch themes)! With 3 themes: Light, Dark, and Pineapple! There is a 2 player mode, if you have 2 people in front of a computer, you can play against each other on 1 computer! With an optional board flip feature! You can play against bots, powered by Stockfish, you can play against bots with different difficulties. And built with Java. — LINKS — Github: https://github.com/Shadowtech1234/pineapplechess/ If you want to download, simply go to the Github repo, and go to the releases tab and download it! For more detailed instructions, it is on the Github readme. — SHOWCASE VIDEO — Showcase video is available on the very top of the readme in the Github repo. (I wasn’t able to attach the video to this Ship post) — CHALLENGES — Here are some challenges I faced. When I first started, I had to learn a brand new language that I had never used, which is Java, so it took me a while to get used to it and progress was very slow at the start. Like a lot of hours I spent on the project was not really captured by Hackatime because I was on documentation and troubleshooting a lot. A very, very big task was app resizing. What I mean is when you resize the app, for example make it fit the entire screen, the app has to make every component scale up, or scale down with a ratio to make it look good. This took me so long to implement and it works, there is just one problem, you have to click the app after you change the window for the resize to apply, so it looks weird when you resize, but you just need to click on the app to refresh it. Hopefully I can fix that in the next update of my app. Another problem was when I tried building my app to an installer to make it as easy as possible for the user. It just never worked for a while. Like every time I tried to build it would give me a problem, and after I fixed it it just gave me another. This went on 7 times. Of the times I had to rewrite a couple major parts of my app including image loading of the pieces, it worked well in developer mode(which is just clicking the run button in VS Code), but Java kind works differently when compiled into a finished product, so the images didn’t load in a couple builds. But now it works and has a user-friendly installer. The last challenge I faced was stopping. I have a lot of ideas to add to this, but I realized that if I did all of it, it would be a waste of time. This includes multi-platform support over MacOS and Linux, not only Windows. Working on this is a fun side project but I want to do something more meaningful. So I am shipping this project right now and trying to make it as clean as possible with the current features of the app, and moving on to the next project. I will still be working on this project, but I will probably come back to it after summer ends or ever later. That’s basically it. I had a lot of fun making the app, it’s not much but I will add features in the future. Thank you!
I made a chess software called Pineapple Chess, this is my second ship on this project, this ship is the major change of porting it to the web. The summary will stay mostly the same for any newcomers to the second ship. — SUMMARY — So basically it’s like any other chess software but it is pineapple themed(don’t worry if you don’t like the way it looks you can switch themes)! With 3 themes: Light, Dark, and Pineapple! There is a 2 player mode, if you have 2 people in front of a computer, you can play against each other on 1 computer! With an optional board flip feature! You can play against bots, powered by Stockfish, you can play against bots with different difficulties. And this time built with Javascript. Basically the original version was made in Java, but in the last ship, I got a lot of feedback saying I should port this to the web, so I did! — LINKS — To Play on web: Play now: https://shadowtech1234.github.io/pineapplechess/ — CHALLENGES — Here are some challenges I faced. When I first started porting this, I had to learn another brand new language that I had never used, which is JavaScript(last time was Java), so it took me a while to get used to it and progress was very slow at the start. Like a lot of hours I spent on the project was not really captured by Hackatime because I was on documentation and troubleshooting a lot. A very, very big task was efficiency. JavaScript is very, very fragile. I had a lot of problems where it would always freeze and stop, which lead to phantom moves in chess and broke it a lot. Learning to code in JavaScript with this efficiency was a bit hard because I had to make sure everything was perfect and there was no holes in it. Like for example in Java, I just coded in whatever way works, and there probably was holes and leaks in that but it wouldn’t be noticeable, in JavaScript it was the complete opposite. (This is what I noticed when I coded, I don’t know if this is factual that JavaScript is very hard when coding to make sure it’s efficient, it might just be me) Another problem was when I tried putting this on GitHub Pages, because the source for it had to be like in one folder I had to rearrange my code and rewrite some parts to make it work on GitHub Pages, The last challenge I faced was stopping. This is the same as last time. I have a lot of ideas to add to this, but I realized that if I did all of it, it would be a waste of time. This includes adding a evaluation bar, game export and import, game analysis, and maybe multiplayer. Working on this is a fun side project but I don’t have the time to work on it as much right now as I have a lot of work from school, and Stardance is ending soon anyways, so I wanted to get it as polished as possible and ship it. That’s basically it. I had a lot of fun making this, it’s not much but I will add features in the future, maybe in the next Hack Club event. Thank you!...
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[{"post_id": 71504, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71504, "ts": "2026-09-20T23:07:40Z", "hours": 1.9058, "text": "Devlog 7 - Sonora Music I decided that with so little time left with Stardance, it wasn’t worth migrating to a new audio engine, especially with all the testing that would have to be done. I ended up deciding to just clean up the app, fix some small errors and making general fixes here and there. Here’s a short list of some bugs I fixed: Fixed a loud bang when spamming skip or closing the app with media playing The app being unable to select directories with only one file Broken UI theme selection Other than that, I’ve just spent time on rewording the readme and making the DMG background and App logo to prepare for shipping the app. Of course in typical developer logic, the build command just has to break, only for me to spend time debugging a missing image file."}, {"post_id": 52821, "ts": "2026-08-23T05:24:42Z", "hours": 2.95, "text": "Devlog 6 - Sonora Music So I left this project alone for a while to focus on other things, but i’m back! I ended up fixing a few bugs here and there, and removing 2 themes I thought didn’t look great. I also added a fallback for that, so if you were using Sonora with that theme, and updated, your app won’t break. I fixed a few memory leaks, mostly because I fell victim to a bunch of them while writing code and testing things. From what I can tell, it was because AVAudioPlayer wasn’t properly releasing itself. This meant that more instances accumulated over time, eating up more RAM and CPU. I also did some visual polishing, by cleaning up unnecessary icons I added, and also just making the UI more refined. I pinned the playbar and controls to the bottom of the screen so that you can always see the controls, and fixed the broken color swatches for the themes so you can see what you are applying. I’m getting close to being ready to ship this project, all I really have left to do is to decide if migrating to AVAudioEngine is worth it as it is an extremely intensive task, and will require lots of tedious work and debugging. The other thing I’ll consider is writing a windows build in Symphonia or some other thing so that this can be cross platform. The main reason I am migrating is so that I can have more refined control of the signal chain and DSP (The chain that your audio passes through and how it is modified, say for an EQ). AVAudioPlayer is designed to just play audio easily, where I want more control and be able to implement the ability to add EQ down the line to further enhance the experience. Hopefully the migration goes well, and I should be able to ship in the next week or two."}, {"post_id": 22506, "ts": "2026-07-05T00:38:03Z", "hours": 4.9175, "text": "Sonora Music – Pain Edition After a week of absolute debugging hell, I finally located and fixed an issue that prevented audio from playing entirely. That took up most of my week, and I also forgot to reinstall Wakatime after I reset my laptop and lost 2-3 hrs there :( While I was at it, I also added Shuffle and Repeat functionality, making the player a bit nicer to use. I’m currently experimenting with a few UI prototypes because I’d really like to add proper playlist creation and management in the future. In terms of releases, I uploaded the first version to GitHub, then realised I built my backup one that didn’t have shuffle and repeat, or the customisation. After uploading the correct build, my next steps are just to update the Sonora Website (another Stardance project ofc) Here’s what I want to tackle next: Migrate the audio system to AVAudioEngine so I can implement more advanced audio features. Add a 3-band EQ (This is why I need to migrate over to AVAudioEngine, as my current AVF Framework doesn’t have support for these types of things or DSP in general). Implement a proper library and playlist view. Create a few custom themes which are similar to the current palette. Add a dedicated Settings page for things like themes, EQ controls, and other app parameters to keep the main UI less cluttered. Overall, this update was mostly focused on bug fixes and polishing. Aside from the features above, I also designed a custom application logo and branded the DMG installer with a custom Sonora Music background, replacing the plain white installer window with something that actually matches the application’s style. Hopefully, the next devlog is a little less about debugging and a little more about adding new features. Maybe? Please???"}, {"post_id": 12851, "ts": "2026-06-21T01:30:51Z", "hours": 1.2872, "text": "I was able to add a working play bar to the app and got the controls to work so that you are now able to skip forward and back songs. I now want to remove that scroll bar on the side and pin the play controls to the bottom of the screen."}, {"post_id": 12428, "ts": "2026-06-20T08:53:34Z", "hours": 0.7778, "text": "So I decided to pivot the whole application to be macOS native by using AVFoundation for Audio. I had too many issues with rodio which is used with rust. While this means it is only for macOS users, it does mean that I can focus on creating for only one OS, and I can develop easier and better. After implementing AVFoundation I am able to select a song using the UI I developed earlier, and then play the song. The next step is to add player controls and a time bar, and work on adding a shuffle feature."}, {"post_id": 12396, "ts": "2026-06-20T07:11:11Z", "hours": 0.4494, "text": "I added logic to select a folder for music and have it list the songs in the folder! I’m now going to add the ability to play music back"}, {"post_id": 11065, "ts": "2026-06-18T03:15:52Z", "hours": 2.8081, "text": "I added the main UI as a mockup. This is only the first page, the player window. Eventually I will add a few more pages and only after will I write the logic to play music."}]...
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Title: Sonora Music by @Samuel-Dingle | Stardance
Title: Sonora Music by @Samuel-Dingle | Stardance
Devlogs:
I added the main UI as a mockup. This is only the first page, the player window. Eventually I will add a few more pages and only after will I write the logic to play music.
I added logic to select a folder for music and have it list the songs in the folder! I’m now going to add the ability to play music back
So I decided to pivot the whole application to be macOS native by using AVFoundation for Audio. I had too many issues with rodio which is used with rust. While this means it is only for macOS users, it does mean that I can focus on creating for only one OS, and I can develop easier and better. After implementing AVFoundation I am able to select a song using the UI I developed earlier, and then play the song. The next step is to add player controls and a time bar, and work on adding a shuffle feature.
I was able to add a working play bar to the app and got the controls to work so that you are now able to skip forward and back songs. I now want to remove that scroll bar on the side and pin the play controls to the bottom of the screen.
Sonora Music – Pain Edition After a week of absolute debugging hell, I finally located and fixed an issue that prevented audio from playing entirely. That took up most of my week, and I also forgot to reinstall Wakatime after I reset my laptop and lost 2-3 hrs there :( While I was at it, I also added Shuffle and Repeat functionality, making the player a bit nicer to use. I’m currently experimenting with a few UI prototypes because I’d really like to add proper playlist creation and management in the future. In terms of releases, I uploaded the first version to GitHub, then realised I built my backup one that didn’t have shuffle and repeat, or the customisation. After uploading the correct build, my next steps are just to update the Sonora Website (another Stardance project ofc) Here’s what I want to tackle next: Migrate the audio system to AVAudioEngine so I can implement more advanced audio features. Add a 3-band EQ (This is why I need to migrate over to AVAudioEngine, as my current AVF Framework doesn’t have support for these types of things or DSP in general). Implement a proper library and playlist view. Create a few custom themes which are similar to the current palette. Add a dedicated Settings page for things like themes, EQ controls, and other app parameters to keep the main UI less cluttered. Overall, this update was mostly focused on bug fixes and polishing. Aside from the features above, I also designed a custom application logo and branded the DMG installer with a custom Sonora Music background, replacing the plain white installer window with something that actually matches the application’s style. Hopefully, the next devlog is a little less about debugging and a little more about adding new features. Maybe? Please???
Devlog 6 - Sonora Music So I left this project alone for a while to focus on other things, but i’m back! I ended up fixing a few bugs here and there, and removing 2 themes I thought didn’t look great. I also added a fallback for that, so if you were using Sonora with that theme, and updated, your app won’t break. I fixed a few memory leaks, mostly because I fell victim to a bunch of them while writing code and testing things. From what I can tell, it was because AVAudioPlayer wasn’t properly releasing itself. This meant that more instances accumulated over time, eating up more RAM and CPU. I also did some visual polishing, by cleaning up unnecessary icons I added, and also just making the UI more refined. I pinned the playbar and controls to the bottom of the screen so that you can always see the controls, and fixed the broken color swatches for the themes so you can see what you are applying. I’m getting close to being ready to ship this project, all I really have left to do is to decide if migrating to AVAudioEngine is worth it as it is an extremely intensive task, and will require lots of tedious work and debugging. The other thing I’ll consider is writing a windows build in Symphonia or some other thing so that this can be cross platform. The main reason I am migrating is so that I can have more refined control of the signal chain and DSP (The chain that your audio passes through and how it is modified, say for an EQ). AVAudioPlayer is designed to just play audio easily, where I want more control and be able to implement the ability to add EQ down the line to further enhance the experience. Hopefully the migration goes well, and I should be able to ship in the next week or two.
Devlog 7 - Sonora Music I decided that with so little time left with Stardance, it wasn’t worth migrating to a new audio engine, especially with all the testing that would have to be done. I ended up deciding to just clean up the app, fix some small errors and making general fixes here and there. Here’s a short list of some bugs I fixed: Fixed a loud bang when spamming skip or closing the app with media playing The app being unable to select directories with only one file Broken UI theme selection Other than that, I’ve just spent time on rewording the readme and making the DMG background and App logo to prepare for shipping the app. Of course in typical developer logic, the build command just has to break, only for me to spend time debugging a missing image file.
Ships:
I built a macOS native music app called Sonora Music. It is designed to be a simple music player for local files. It uses Apple’s own AV Frameworks in order to be lightweight. The main thing I found challenging at the start was configuring all of the rust code to get actual audio playback. After some reading and a bit of help from AI, I was able to get a basic player, from which I scaled up with Shuffle, Repeat, a working playbar that supports scrubbing, and a queue system. To try out the project, just click the try project button and download the latest release from github. I have included 2 songs to test the app with!...
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bread&bair by @devlx | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71503, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71503, "ts": "2026-09-20T23:03:56Z", "hours": 1.4019, "text": "Devlog #1 Welcome to Bread & BairBread & Bair is a small fantasy text adventure set in the shadowy woods around Morrowfen Village.The story follows Bair, a baker’s apprentice who disappears after chasing strange lights into the forest. Players must explore dangerous paths, gather key items, uncover the River Hag’s weakness, and return Bair home before the third sunrise.This first version focuses on branching choices, limited inventory, random travel events, multiple discoveries, score tracking, and two possible successful endings. The true ending requires finding both the Amber Tear and the Moonstone, then awakening the star arch.The game is written in Python and runs directly in the terminal with no external dependencies. Future updates could add more locations, character interactions, additional endings, and richer consequences for player choices."}]...
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Title: bread&bair by @devlx | Stardance
Devlo Title: bread&bair by @devlx | Stardance
Devlogs:
Devlog #1 Welcome to Bread & BairBread & Bair is a small fantasy text adventure set in the shadowy woods around Morrowfen Village.The story follows Bair, a baker’s apprentice who disappears after chasing strange lights into the forest. Players must explore dangerous paths, gather key items, uncover the River Hag’s weakness, and return Bair home before the third sunrise.This first version focuses on branching choices, limited inventory, random travel events, multiple discoveries, score tracking, and two possible successful endings. The true ending requires finding both the Amber Tear and the Moonstone, then awakening the star arch.The game is written in Python and runs directly in the terminal with no external dependencies. Future updates could add more locations, character interactions, additional endings, and richer consequences for player choices.
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I made Bread & Bair, a terminal-based fantasy text adventure where players explore Morrowfen’s haunted forest to rescue Bair, a missing baker’s apprentice. I’m proud of the branching choices, random travel events, item-based progression, and multiple endings. The main challenge was just designing the game although nothing major....
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After Playlist by @Jolly_VFX | Stardance
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[{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-0 [{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-09-20T23:41:39Z", "hours": 7.0, "multiplier": 12.4, "payout": 107, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "After Playlist v5.0.0 BOOM! I’ve finally finished with my second ship for this project. Honestly I’ve had a blast making this and I hope everyone likes it! What did I make? I made a Adobe After Effects ScriptUI Panel that lets you control what music is playing through PowerShell and Windows Script Host. This all happens asynchronously so no need to worry about AE lagging, losing focus, or simply just crashing. It’s all handled outside. The project is designed to save those extra few seconds and to make sure that you never have to leave the editing “flow-state.” I also made another video! :D Major QoL improvements: Multiple guides: Majorly helps users install, troubleshoot, or even just figure out if they can run the script. Settings panel: Give more control and freedom over the script Error codes! I really should’ve added these earlier. They help the user troubleshoot more easily and figure out what’s wrong! Challenges I didn’t have too much difficulty this time tbh. I had to research quite I bit to figure out how to even make a settings panel which I tried to make before but failed HORRIBLY. I updated the UI which wasn’t too challenging at all. I suppose the biggest challenge was how tiring it was to make all those functions for the settings menu. Thanks for the feedback I got some AMAZING feedback from the previous ship and I made sure to address each of them. They mainly said to fix/update the UI and I did so. I do agree the previous UI wasn’t exactly… appealing. AI disclaimer I didn’t use as much AI as last ship. It was mainly just for ideas and I asked once why my settings menu wasn’t opening and I got some feedback from Manus which steered me in the right direction. I only copy and pasted a few times for the unicode symbols because I decided that symbols would look better and cleaner than text. Thanks to everyone at Hackclub for making Stardance. It really gave me a purpose (and i also needed motivation to learn coding lol).", "repo": "https://github.com/pi-vfx-aep/After-Playlist", "demo": "https://github.com/pi-vfx-aep/After-Playlist/releases/tag/v5.0"}, {"ship_num": 2, "ts": "2026-08-28T00:40:39Z", "hours": 7.0, "multiplier": 14.99, "payout": 122, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "After Playlist V4.0.0 for Windows 11 Time spent: ~7 hours (5h developing and 2h asset creation and video editing). Editors like myself often find themselves in a state known as the flow state. The flow state is a time where an editor is completely locked in and fully focused on editing. A major contributor to achieving this state is music. Music is what relaxes you and gets you focused at the same time. The Problem: The big issue is that flipping between Spotify or other media platforms can easily break the creative flow. I personally hate going back and forth between Adobe After Effects (AE) and Spotify just to pause a song or look at what the song is called. Standard AE scripts that aim to fix this problem usually end up making AE freeze. The Solution: After Playlist is a media controller that stays docked inside AE. It uses an Asynchronous architecture to communicate with Windows silently to make sure AE doesn’t keep freezing. The 4 Major QoL Improvements: A non-blocking asynchronous engine: It uses a small little hidden VBScript/Powershell bridge to keep AE responsive (errors can occur!) A live now-playing section: Every 6 seconds the artist name and song name is fetched through background polling. It uses a marquee scrolling effect for long names. Spotify launcher and media controls: The main part is the media controls (Play/pause, next, previous, volume up/down, and mute. It also has a button to launch Spotify incase you haven’t already :D Diagnostics test: The button near the button runs a test to make sure the script will work (Can be inaccurate). Challenges: As I’ve mentioned in a previous devlog and the Github README, I had a hard time figuring out how to even make this work. Some deep researching led me to PowerShell and VBScript. Another challenge was not much a challenge and rather an annoying bug that would register multiple clicks at once causing either AE to crash or the script to not work. AI Disclaimer: Manus and Claude were used quite a bit for pointing out errors that I missed and they also helped come up with ideas to add to the script. The name was based off a ChatGPT suggestion lol. Technical details: Language used: Adobe ExtendScript (Based on ECMAScript) Code editor used: VS Code Software used for testing: Adobe After Effects 2025. Hope people use this! Have an absolutely spectacular day!", "repo": "https://github.com/pi-vfx-aep/After-Playlist", "demo": "https://github.com/pi-vfx-aep/After-Playlist/releases/tag/v5.0"}]...
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References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUoHKh86mX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxA-qJsJL30 Video Details: FPS: 18 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 px How cool it is: 10/10"}, {"post_id": 69406, "ts": "2026-09-17T00:04:29Z", "hours": 4.0544, "text": "Possible my second last devlog I did quite a lot in these 4 hours. Before I tell you, I’d like to thank everyone at stardance for this amazing opportunity to pursue this project and also get a cool prize :D What I added I added a settings menu! I actually tried to add one a while back but it unfortunately it did not work. I did not give up. I decided to add it back in the 5.0 version (releasing soon, probably when I ship). I also added a couple more things: Fixed status text Fixed minor bugs Added error codes Added tooltips to error codes New manuals I also created two manuals so far. A user manual and a troubleshooting manual. The troubleshooting manual defines all the error codes and gives fixes, general fixes, how to report a problem, and known limitations of the script. The user manual gives explicit info on the script and its functions and it has a simplified version of how to install it (more in depth instructions on readme). Error codes While seemingly irrelevant, error codes are SUPER important. It lets the user reference the trouble shooting guide much easier and they also have much less to remember. AI disclaimer As always I have to provide an AI disclaimer. Now most of this didn’t really use much AI since it was pretty basic stuff especially the error codes. All I really asked AI about was what I should add to the settings since I’m not exactly creative. As for how to make the settings panel, I just researched a little online, dug through some forums, and that’s pretty much it. THANKS TO EVERYONE AT STARDANCE LOVE YALL"}, {"post_id": 63188, "ts": "2026-09-06T21:08:19Z", "hours": 1.2042, "text": "I’m back. I got some amazing feedback on this project and I’m honored to get a blessing. It has boosted my motivation to continue this silly project of mine. I’ve been quite inactive lately because I was sick but fret not because I’m back to working on After Playlist. This time, I worked a lot more on the UI because most of my feedback was that the UI looked boring and generic. Fair enough. I changed up some colors and positions of the buttons and then I set this as a new release on my github. I plan on spending atleast 6 more hours on this because only then will I be able to get the thing I want (the keebcard). I am not really sure what to add so if you are reading this please give me suggestions! AI disclaimer Not much AI used this time as all I did was change up the UI. I did however use Claude to tell me what I should do to improve the AI but otherwise none of the code was written by AI. Have a great day!"}, {"post_id": 56286, "ts": "2026-08-28T00:08:39Z", "hours": 1.0578, "text": "The final devlog: The journey was fun. I’d never thought I’d make something that I’d use almost every day. After Playlist has evolved ALOT in a short time. When I first made it, I had low hopes. Almost as if it’d be a fail. And though it did indeed fail, I pushed through and made it work. So for my last update, I added two buttons: C - Enables compact mode by hiding everything except the media controls and diagnostics section. S - Launches Spotify for the people like me who feel too lazy to even open Spotify normally. I wont go too much in detail but I used the Spotify protocol which works with every version of Spotify and the compact mode was very simple, all it did was hide certain aspects. I also learned something new. I never actually knew how helpTips worked and I researched them a bit and added two helpTips. One to each button because you can’t really tell what each button does. I’m going to ship this project shortly after everything is in order. AI usage: HUGE thanks to manus once again my goat helped my find out why the diagnostics text was getting cut off and also how to use helpTips properly. Have a good day!"}, {"post_id": 55312, "ts": "2026-08-27T01:47:21Z", "hours": 0.8581, "text": "I did it, I finally added the now playing feature! So as you may know, I revealed in my second devlog of this project that the now playing feature had to be removed because I just could not get it to work. Today I woke up and thought: “Let’s give it another shot” ##My biggest challenge: I had thought of a way to make it work but AE would still keep freezing every now and then because the process was happening through AE. How I made it and fixed the freezing problem: I made a sort of “scout” that would launch a small, hidden powershell process in the background every 6 seconds. This scout then asks windows: “Bro what song is playing right now? I gotta know.” So then windows responds with the answer written in a temporary file. AE then reads this file and displays it on the “Now Playing” section near the top. If the answer comes empty then AE keeps the same song. This way AE doesn’t freeze because the process happens outside AE. One other problem was that the text would get cutoff due to panel resizing issues. To fix this I simply added a marquee scrolling effect to keep it nice and smooth. I won’t go into detail about that but know that I had to search up how to do it since I’ve never done it. AI usage disclaimer: Claude Sonnet was used to point out syntax errors and Manus was used to help guide me to using the “background scout” method. Both AI helped out a whole lot. Hope someone uses this and if you are reading it, have a great day!"}, {"post_id": 52779, "ts": "2026-08-23T03:48:38Z", "hours": 2.5169, "text": "I made another video So if you’ve seen my previous script: “Wiggle Me Timbers,” you’d know I made a short, sick looking demo video so people know how it works. Well, I did it again. My main talent lies in motion graphics and video editing so not making a video would feel like a crime. This video is a bit different from the other one. Instead of making a simple video, I added a fun twist using my knowledge of 3D typography. Anyways the video IS done but I haven’t rendered it yet because I don’t intend to upload it right now. Hope you guys like it!"}, {"post_id": 52012, "ts": "2026-08-22T01:37:11Z", "hours": 1.3683, "text": "FINALLY! So I had a minor (actually kinda major) problem with the original version. It had MAJOR delay! It was honestly very irritating. To fix this I reduced the unecessary delays by reducing the key-down/key-up timing from 40 miliseconds to 15 miliseconds, and the response-file polling interval was reduced from 100 miliseconds to 25. This made it faster yes, but After Effects was still waiting synchronously :( I made the script create a temporary PowerShell script and a hidden VBScript launcher. The VBScript uses WScript.Shell.Run with style 0 and the False wait parameter. I did a little more but I don’t want to bore you :D Anyways if anyone read to the end, I hope you guys have a great day and that someone can actually find this useful."}, {"post_id": 51368, "ts": "2026-08-21T00:22:21Z", "hours": 0.2553, "text": "Now I realized that the idea was i bit far fetched and that making it work first try would be… impossible. It took a while of debugging which i forgot to record so there goes some hours BUT i did record ~15 mins of me testing and updating the README so theres that. I changed the UI, removed and entire feature and make a lot of tweaks to FINALLY make it work. Great thing is manus and claude helped me identify tons of the errors. Have a good day :D"}, {"post_id": 51345, "ts": "2026-08-20T23:20:53Z", "hours": 0.7486, "text": "After Playlist (V1.0) I basically made everything in this one session but technically it’s not fully done. The next few devlogs will include QoL improvements, UI changes, etc. It’s a lightweight media controller for After Effects. If you use AE for hours like me and you need music to stay focused, this is honestly perfect for you. Note: This only works on Windows and the desktop app of Spotify, other desktop apps may work How it works (in more simple terms) Now most of this I needed quite a bit of help for like how to integrate Windows SMTC (System Media Transport Control) Now ExtendScript, the programming language for After Effects ScriptUI Panels doesn’t really support asynchronous Windows API’s :( The good this is you can still build a simple PowerShell Bridge, (It’s not actually that simple for a new coder like me 😭 ) So for the people who can actually understand this… It generates a temporary .ps1 script tapping into GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager wow, thats a real mouthful. Anyways then it uses a custom Await helper via .NET reflection to query the active media session for the song name, artist and the playback status :D Then it reads the cached input from Folder.temp back into the UI Panel (stay with me we’re almost done) Lastly the playback is mapped directly through Poweshell SendKeys commands. AI usage Claude Sonnet was used to debug the code and provide some suggestions on what to add (im not super creative 😭 ) Anyways have fun guys I hope someone will actually use this!"}]...
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Title: After Playlist by @Jolly_VFX | Stardance
D Title: After Playlist by @Jolly_VFX | Stardance
Devlogs:
After Playlist (V1.0) I basically made everything in this one session but technically it’s not fully done. The next few devlogs will include QoL improvements, UI changes, etc. It’s a lightweight media controller for After Effects. If you use AE for hours like me and you need music to stay focused, this is honestly perfect for you. Note: This only works on Windows and the desktop app of Spotify, other desktop apps may work How it works (in more simple terms) Now most of this I needed quite a bit of help for like how to integrate Windows SMTC (System Media Transport Control) Now ExtendScript, the programming language for After Effects ScriptUI Panels doesn’t really support asynchronous Windows API’s :( The good this is you can still build a simple PowerShell Bridge, (It’s not actually that simple for a new coder like me 😭 ) So for the people who can actually understand this… It generates a temporary .ps1 script tapping into GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager wow, thats a real mouthful. Anyways then it uses a custom Await helper via .NET reflection to query the active media session for the song name, artist and the playback status :D Then it reads the cached input from Folder.temp back into the UI Panel (stay with me we’re almost done) Lastly the playback is mapped directly through Poweshell SendKeys commands. AI usage Claude Sonnet was used to debug the code and provide some suggestions on what to add (im not super creative 😭 ) Anyways have fun guys I hope someone will actually use this!
Now I realized that the idea was i bit far fetched and that making it work first try would be… impossible. It took a while of debugging which i forgot to record so there goes some hours BUT i did record ~15 mins of me testing and updating the README so theres that. I changed the UI, removed and entire feature and make a lot of tweaks to FINALLY make it work. Great thing is manus and claude helped me identify tons of the errors. Have a good day :D
FINALLY! So I had a minor (actually kinda major) problem with the original version. It had MAJOR delay! It was honestly very irritating. To fix this I reduced the unecessary delays by reducing the key-down/key-up timing from 40 miliseconds to 15 miliseconds, and the response-file polling interval was reduced from 100 miliseconds to 25. This made it faster yes, but After Effects was still waiting synchronously :( I made the script create a temporary PowerShell script and a hidden VBScript launcher. The VBScript uses WScript.Shell.Run with style 0 and the False wait parameter. I did a little more but I don’t want to bore you :D Anyways if anyone read to the end, I hope you guys have a great day and that someone can actually find this useful.
I made another video So if you’ve seen my previous script: “Wiggle Me Timbers,” you’d know I made a short, sick looking demo video so people know how it works. Well, I did it again. My main talent lies in motion graphics and video editing so not making a video would feel like a crime. This video is a bit different from the other one. Instead of making a simple video, I added a fun twist using my knowledge of 3D typography. Anyways the video IS done but I haven’t rendered it yet because I don’t intend to upload it right now. Hope you guys like it!
I did it, I finally added the now playing feature! So as you may know, I revealed in my second devlog of this project that the now playing feature had to be removed because I just could not get it to work. Today I woke up and thought: “Let’s give it another shot” ##My biggest challenge: I had thought of a way to make it work but AE would still keep freezing every now and then because the process was happening through AE. How I made it and fixed the freezing problem: I made a sort of “scout” that would launch a small, hidden powershell process in the background every 6 seconds. This scout then asks windows: “Bro what song is playing right now? I gotta know.” So then windows responds with the answer written in a temporary file. AE then reads this file and displays it on the “Now Playing” section near the top. If the answer comes empty then AE keeps the same song. This way AE doesn’t freeze because the process happens outside AE. One other problem was that the text would get cutoff due to panel resizing issues. To fix this I simply added a marquee scrolling effect to keep it nice and smooth. I won’t go into detail about that but know that I had to search up how to do it since I’ve never done it. AI usage disclaimer: Claude Sonnet was used to point out syntax errors and Manus was used to help guide me to using the “background scout” method. Both AI helped out a whole lot. Hope someone uses this and if you are reading it, have a great day!
The final devlog: The journey was fun. I’d never thought I’d make something that I’d use almost every day. After Playlist has evolved ALOT in a short time. When I first made it, I had low hopes. Almost as if it’d be a fail. And though it did indeed fail, I pushed through and made it work. So for my last update, I added two buttons: C - Enables compact mode by hiding everything except the media controls and diagnostics section. S - Launches Spotify for the people like me who feel too lazy to even open Spotify normally. I wont go too much in detail but I used the Spotify protocol which works with every version of Spotify and the compact mode was very simple, all it did was hide certain aspects. I also learned something new. I never actually knew how helpTips worked and I researched them a bit and added two helpTips. One to each button because you can’t really tell what each button does. I’m going to ship this project shortly after everything is in order. AI usage: HUGE thanks to manus once again my goat helped my find out why the diagnostics text was getting cut off and also how to use helpTips properly. Have a good day!
I’m back. I got some amazing feedback on this project and I’m honored to get a blessing. It has boosted my motivation to continue this silly project of mine. I’ve been quite inactive lately because I was sick but fret not because I’m back to working on After Playlist. This time, I worked a lot more on the UI because most of my feedback was that the UI looked boring and generic. Fair enough. I changed up some colors and positions of the buttons and then I set this as a new release on my github. I plan on spending atleast 6 more hours on this because only then will I be able to get the thing I want (the keebcard). I am not really sure what to add so if you are reading this please give me suggestions! AI disclaimer Not much AI used this time as all I did was change up the UI. I did however use Claude to tell me what I should do to improve the AI but otherwise none of the code was written by AI. Have a great day!
Possible my second last devlog I did quite a lot in these 4 hours. Before I tell you, I’d like to thank everyone at stardance for this amazing opportunity to pursue this project and also get a cool prize :D What I added I added a settings menu! I actually tried to add one a while back but it unfortunately it did not work. I did not give up. I decided to add it back in the 5.0 version (releasing soon, probably when I ship). I also added a couple more things: Fixed status text Fixed minor bugs Added error codes Added tooltips to error codes New manuals I also created two manuals so far. A user manual and a troubleshooting manual. The troubleshooting manual defines all the error codes and gives fixes, general fixes, how to report a problem, and known limitations of the script. The user manual gives explicit info on the script and its functions and it has a simplified version of how to install it (more in depth instructions on readme). Error codes While seemingly irrelevant, error codes are SUPER important. It lets the user reference the trouble shooting guide much easier and they also have much less to remember. AI disclaimer As always I have to provide an AI disclaimer. Now most of this didn’t really use much AI since it was pretty basic stuff especially the error codes. All I really asked AI about was what I should add to the settings since I’m not exactly creative. As for how to make the settings panel, I just researched a little online, dug through some forums, and that’s pretty much it. THANKS TO EVERYONE AT STARDANCE LOVE YALL
I’m Finally Done (Hopefully) I decided to make a little “Minimum System Requirements” sheet because well, why not? It felt like a good addition because I don’t want people installing the script and then not being able to use it. The other important thing I did was make another video. Is it necessary? No. Is it absolutely awesome and cool? ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! My passion for video editing is so strong I just couldn’t bring myself to not make another video. This one is a little different however. I didn’t showcase the tool at all, its more so just an ad to get people interested. The style of it is also different. I went with a low fps, grainy, style of video. References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUoHKh86mX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxA-qJsJL30 Video Details: FPS: 18 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 px How cool it is: 10/10
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After Playlist V4.0.0 for Windows 11 Time spent: ~7 hours (5h developing and 2h asset creation and video editing). Editors like myself often find themselves in a state known as the flow state. The flow state is a time where an editor is completely locked in and fully focused on editing. A major contributor to achieving this state is music. Music is what relaxes you and gets you focused at the same time. The Problem: The big issue is that flipping between Spotify or other media platforms can easily break the creative flow. I personally hate going back and forth between Adobe After Effects (AE) and Spotify just to pause a song or look at what the song is called. Standard AE scripts that aim to fix this problem usually end up making AE freeze. The Solution: After Playlist is a media controller that stays docked inside AE. It uses an Asynchronous architecture to communicate with Windows silently to make sure AE doesn’t keep freezing. The 4 Major QoL Improvements: A non-blocking asynchronous engine: It uses a small little hidden VBScript/Powershell bridge to keep AE responsive (errors can occur!) A live now-playing section: Every 6 seconds the artist name and song name is fetched through background polling. It uses a marquee scrolling effect for long names. Spotify launcher and media controls: The main part is the media controls (Play/pause, next, previous, volume up/down, and mute. It also has a button to launch Spotify incase you haven’t already :D Diagnostics test: The button near the button runs a test to make sure the script will work (Can be inaccurate). Challenges: As I’ve mentioned in a previous devlog and the Github README, I had a hard time figuring out how to even make this work. Some deep researching led me to PowerShell and VBScript. Another challenge was not much a challenge and rather an annoying bug that would register multiple clicks at once causing either AE to crash or the script to not work. AI Disclaimer: Manus and Claude were used quite a bit for pointing out errors that I missed and they also helped come up with ideas to add to the script. The name was based off a ChatGPT suggestion lol. Technical details: Language used: Adobe ExtendScript (Based on ECMAScript) Code editor used: VS Code Software used for testing: Adobe After Effects 2025. Hope people use this! Have an absolutely spectacular day!
After Playlist v5.0.0 BOOM! I’ve finally finished with my second ship for this project. Honestly I’ve had a blast making this and I hope everyone likes it! What did I make? I made a Adobe After Effects ScriptUI Panel that lets you control what music is playing through PowerShell and Windows Script Host. This all happens asynchronously so no need to worry about AE lagging, losing focus, or simply just crashing. It’s all handled outside. The project is designed to save those extra few seconds and to make sure that you never have to leave the editing “flow-state.” I also made another video! :D Major QoL improvements: Multiple guides: Majorly helps users install, troubleshoot, or even just figure out if they can run the script. Settings panel: Give more control and freedom over the script Error codes! I really should’ve added these earlier. They help the user troubleshoot more easily and figure out what’s wrong! Challenges I didn’t have too much difficulty this time tbh. I had to research quite I bit to figure out how to even make a settings panel which I tried to make before but failed HORRIBLY. I updated the UI which wasn’t too challenging at all. I suppose the biggest challenge was how tiring it was to make all those functions for the settings menu. Thanks for the feedback I got some AMAZING feedback from the previous ship and I made sure to address each of them. They mainly said to fix/update the UI and I did so. I do agree the previous UI wasn’t exactly… appealing. AI disclaimer I didn’t use as much AI as last ship. It was mainly just for ideas and I asked once why my settings menu wasn’t opening and I got some feedback from Manus which steered me in the right direction. I only copy and pasted a few times for the unicode symbols because I decided that symbols would look better and cleaner than text. Thanks to everyone at Hackclub for making Stardance. It really gave me a purpose (and i also needed motivation to learn coding lol)....
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OrbitOS by @eliziv027 | Stardance
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Title: OrbitOS by @eliziv027 | Stardance
Devlogs: Title: OrbitOS by @eliziv027 | Stardance
Devlogs:
I worked on OrbitOS by refining the space-themed WebOS interface and improving the draggable window experience. I polished the dock and the Welcome, Projects, Notes, and Terminal apps, including the extra Orbit Terminal feature. Next I will keep testing interactions and improving the overall usability.
Today I improved draggable window behavior and focus handling in OrbitOS, and refined the Welcome and Projects apps. I tested moving windows and bringing the active window to the front.
Orbit Terminal + Sticky Notes + Pages deploy; AI helped; Eli directed.
Ships:
I built OrbitOS, a space-themed WebOS with draggable windows, a dock, and Welcome, Projects, Sticky Notes, and Orbit Terminal apps. I focused on smoother window dragging and focus behavior, then added Orbit Terminal as a feature beyond the guide. It is deployed without a password—open several apps, drag their title bars, and try the Terminal....
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Nemeso by @IKONIK | Stardance
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Title: Nemeso by @IKONIK | Stardance
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got Title: Nemeso by @IKONIK | Stardance
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got ollama to work on my computer. cant wait to finally start programming
basic model manager (finally actual development) you can pull, delete and select your models now :)
package managment and cleaned up the code finally. (biggest update yet) (get ready for something big. v1.0 shhhhh)...
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Finally able to navigate through the six simulation systems from one place 🔥🔥 Had to wrestle with CSS flexbox and transitions to make nice animations! Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/"}, {"post_id": 69204, "ts": "2026-09-16T16:21:41Z", "hours": 0.9172, "text": "Cart + Pendulum Added a simple cart and pendulum system, and realised the internal rotation angles were COMPLETELY opposite… Spent half an hour of unlogged time just to find out that all of the systems were symmetric in angles except ONE which had a wrong sign in the rendering code, making it LOOK symmetric… Fixed that without too much of a headache once found :D"}, {"post_id": 69138, "ts": "2026-09-16T13:30:59Z", "hours": 1.0844, "text": "System file viewer Added a button to view the Python code that sets up the physical system. Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/"}, {"post_id": 65038, "ts": "2026-09-09T20:59:17Z", "hours": 0.6514, "text": "More simulations New simulations added: Swinging Atwood Machine Ball on Slope Simple Pendulum Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/"}, {"post_id": 64996, "ts": "2026-09-09T19:25:27Z", "hours": 0.8075, "text": "Website structure rewrite To make adding new simulations easier, I restructured the file layout and added more dynamic code to the shared JS to create the elements required rather than copy pasting everything in every file. Also added labels to the tab title and bottom right corner. Also rewrote the drawing code for the rolling disk to add more details. Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/disk/"}, {"post_id": 56937, "ts": "2026-08-28T23:23:50Z", "hours": 4.4119, "text": "Complex System Demo This system contains a semicircular anulus rocking on a rough plane, with a circular disk inside attached to a compound pendulum, and constrained with three springs. Adjusting the parameters took an awfully long time… Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/disk.html"}, {"post_id": 56254, "ts": "2026-08-27T22:49:48Z", "hours": 5.4453, "text": "Circular Disks After much headache, two new constraints have been implemented: disk rolling on a plane and disk rolling in a circle. There were also lots of bugs in the LaTeX output, which I just kept encountering one by one, but hopefully they should now all be fixed. Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/disk.html"}, {"post_id": 55340, "ts": "2026-08-27T02:46:15Z", "hours": 1.0178, "text": "GitHub deployment Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/pend.html"}, {"post_id": 55304, "ts": "2026-08-27T01:35:48Z", "hours": 5.4156, "text": "LaTeX and more simplification This devlog was supposed to be two separate ones, but Stardance was refusing to calculate logged hours :( There’s a big list of changes here: Added a label to show kinetic and potential energies (and demonstrating conservation of energy!) Finally implemented combining like terms (3x + 2x = 5x) and like powers (sin(x) * sin(x) = sin^2(x)), which provides a huge speed increase since the equations of motion are now simpler Fixed a BUNCH of bugs that were cropping up under MicroPython (annoyingly CPython’s dict keys in order of assignment is an implementation detail that isn’t in MicroPython, and the hashing function in MicroPython is completely unreliable) Added LaTeX mode for converting expressions into strings, which automatically handles subscripts and symbols Added labels to the diagram also with LaTeX, tweaked for visibility"}, {"post_id": 55177, "ts": "2026-08-26T17:39:33Z", "hours": 3.4461, "text": "Officially brought to web! I had to wrestle with PyScript for an incredibly long time, but it’s finally running smoothly! Two big changes to the code are: micropython support, which runs and loads SO much faster than Pyodide (but meant I had to rewrite itertools.product and np.linalg.solve) helper classes to create a mechanical system and create energy formulae, which abstracts the math away into much more of an intuitive system! The code for setting up the system gets simpler and simpler each time…"}, {"post_id": 55036, "ts": "2026-08-26T13:50:10Z", "hours": 0.8836, "text": "PyScript testing Spent some time reading through the documentation of PyScript ( https://pyscript.net/ ) to see how well the code will run in the browser. Got the double pendulum code to run in the browser, and I will start writing a full demo soon."}, {"post_id": 54584, "ts": "2026-08-25T16:39:49Z", "hours": 1.2239, "text": "RK4 solver class I have implemented a class that handles solving, susbtitution and iteration of a system from the lagrangian and tested it with a pendulum-cart setup like the one found at https://www.myphysicslab.com/pendulum/cart-pendulum-en.html ."}, {"post_id": 54508, "ts": "2026-08-25T15:12:57Z", "hours": 1.5611, "text": "Better syntax and other tests The expressions can now be written in a much simpler syntax, making it easier to read! Below is also a test run simulating the angle of a rocking semicircle."}, {"post_id": 54158, "ts": "2026-08-25T00:26:04Z", "hours": 0.7797, "text": "Optimisations The old code used to substitute values and perform thousands of simplifications when they weren’t even necessary. Now the values are directly calculated, resulting in much better execution times."}, {"post_id": 54130, "ts": "2026-08-24T23:11:27Z", "hours": 1.7872, "text": "More complicated math The solver can now handle sin and cos, as well as expanding brackets! Also added the equation of motion solver to obtain a value for acceleration. Tested with a different rendering tool with a double pendulum setup. I will eventually create my own simulation using more math and rendering, this window is not part of the project. TODO: collecting like terms and cancelling down, optimising value substitution"}, {"post_id": 54084, "ts": "2026-08-24T21:19:34Z", "hours": 1.0189, "text": "Differentiation! The symbol engine is now capable of performing partial differentiation with respect to any variable, allowing the use of Euler-Lagrange to form differential equations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Lagrange_equation"}, {"post_id": 54050, "ts": "2026-08-24T20:14:45Z", "hours": 0.4261, "text": "Basic expression manipulation The goal of this project is to write a library that can perform symbolic differentiation and solve for an “equation of motion” which can be used to run a simulation. The code for substituting variables is now complete. Here is a sample of how the substitution works."}]...
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Title: MechSim by @rayzchen | Stardance
Devlogs:
Title: MechSim by @rayzchen | Stardance
Devlogs:
Basic expression manipulation The goal of this project is to write a library that can perform symbolic differentiation and solve for an “equation of motion” which can be used to run a simulation. The code for substituting variables is now complete. Here is a sample of how the substitution works.
Differentiation! The symbol engine is now capable of performing partial differentiation with respect to any variable, allowing the use of Euler-Lagrange to form differential equations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Lagrange_equation
More complicated math The solver can now handle sin and cos, as well as expanding brackets! Also added the equation of motion solver to obtain a value for acceleration. Tested with a different rendering tool with a double pendulum setup. I will eventually create my own simulation using more math and rendering, this window is not part of the project. TODO: collecting like terms and cancelling down, optimising value substitution
Optimisations The old code used to substitute values and perform thousands of simplifications when they weren’t even necessary. Now the values are directly calculated, resulting in much better execution times.
Better syntax and other tests The expressions can now be written in a much simpler syntax, making it easier to read! Below is also a test run simulating the angle of a rocking semicircle.
RK4 solver class I have implemented a class that handles solving, susbtitution and iteration of a system from the lagrangian and tested it with a pendulum-cart setup like the one found at https://www.myphysicslab.com/pendulum/cart-pendulum-en.html .
PyScript testing Spent some time reading through the documentation of PyScript ( https://pyscript.net/ ) to see how well the code will run in the browser. Got the double pendulum code to run in the browser, and I will start writing a full demo soon.
Officially brought to web! I had to wrestle with PyScript for an incredibly long time, but it’s finally running smoothly! Two big changes to the code are: micropython support, which runs and loads SO much faster than Pyodide (but meant I had to rewrite itertools.product and np.linalg.solve) helper classes to create a mechanical system and create energy formulae, which abstracts the math away into much more of an intuitive system! The code for setting up the system gets simpler and simpler each time…
LaTeX and more simplification This devlog was supposed to be two separate ones, but Stardance was refusing to calculate logged hours :( There’s a big list of changes here: Added a label to show kinetic and potential energies (and demonstrating conservation of energy!) Finally implemented combining like terms (3x + 2x = 5x) and like powers (sin(x) * sin(x) = sin^2(x)), which provides a huge speed increase since the equations of motion are now simpler Fixed a BUNCH of bugs that were cropping up under MicroPython (annoyingly CPython’s dict keys in order of assignment is an implementation detail that isn’t in MicroPython, and the hashing function in MicroPython is completely unreliable) Added LaTeX mode for converting expressions into strings, which automatically handles subscripts and symbols Added labels to the diagram also with LaTeX, tweaked for visibility
GitHub deployment Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/pend.html
Circular Disks After much headache, two new constraints have been implemented: disk rolling on a plane and disk rolling in a circle. There were also lots of bugs in the LaTeX output, which I just kept encountering one by one, but hopefully they should now all be fixed. Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/disk.html
Complex System Demo This system contains a semicircular anulus rocking on a rough plane, with a circular disk inside attached to a compound pendulum, and constrained with three springs. Adjusting the parameters took an awfully long time… Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/disk.html
Website structure rewrite To make adding new simulations easier, I restructured the file layout and added more dynamic code to the shared JS to create the elements required rather than copy pasting everything in every file. Also added labels to the tab title and bottom right corner. Also rewrote the drawing code for the rolling disk to add more details. Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/disk/
More simulations New simulations added: Swinging Atwood Machine Ball on Slope Simple Pendulum Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/
System file viewer Added a button to view the Python code that sets up the physical system. Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/
Cart + Pendulum Added a simple cart and pendulum system, and realised the internal rotation angles were COMPLETELY opposite… Spent half an hour of unlogged time just to find out that all of the systems were symmetric in angles except ONE which had a wrong sign in the rendering code, making it LOOK symmetric… Fixed that without too much of a headache once found :D
Homepage! Finally able to navigate through the six simulation systems from one place 🔥🔥 Had to wrestle with CSS flexbox and transitions to make nice animations! Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/
Energy Bar Added a bar on the left to graphically show the ratio between kinetic and potential energies (the faster things are moving, the more light grey there is). Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/
Playback Controls Added reset, play/pause and step buttons! Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/
Final fixes Changed the behaviour of the playback button icons to keep sync with the simulation. Also fixed a layering issue in the CSS. The project should now be ready to ship! Temporary deployments can be found at https://rayzchen.github.io/mechsim/
Ships:
MechSim MechSim is a mechanical system simulator that uses Lagrangian mechanics and Runge-Kutta methods to simulate various constrained systems. From expressions of energy it is capable of deriving equations of motion using symbolic differentiation and then stepping through them in time to simulate the motion of the system. How to use The homepage has links to each of the system simulator pages. Each page has an energy label and diagram, playback buttons and sometimes system equations. The Rolling Disk Pendulum has equations of motion too complex to display on the screen. There is also a button to view the Python system file that creates the solver. The page runs best on a landscape desktop orientation. Code structure The project is written in both Python and JavaScript: the main Lagrangian system solver uses Python for its polymorphism and flexible OOP, while the renderer uses JS to efficiently draw the system and update the GUI. Minimal external dependencies are used, so almost all of the code has been written from scratch. Neither component uses nor requires the internals of the other: the system solver simply outputs a few numbers representing the phase state of the system, and the renderer uses those numbers to calculate the positions of objects to draw. Challenges One of the first major issues encountered was how to simplify expressions. Many of the basic rules in algebra are rather complicated to systematically apply, such as collecting like terms or using index laws. In fact, since the expressions obtained from the Euler-Lagrange equations are of a specific format, this symbolic differentiation engine is not fully-featured. Another detail that required significant attention was how to embed Python into a JavaScript powered webpage. The library used for this, PyScript, has two different Python interpreters: Pyodide and MicroPython, the latter of which is 37x smaller in size. The symbolic differentiation engine does not require any external dependencies, but the RK4 time stepper does use NumPy, which is not available on MicroPython. This meant that much of the code needed to be rewritten using ulab, the MicroPython equivalent. In addition to this, many of the CPython-specific implementation details were different, such as dictionary key order and hash function limitations, had varying behaviour on MicroPython and had to be taken account of. One of the techniques I used was dynamically creating each simulation webpage entirely using JavaScript without any frameworks such as jQuery. This meant that each simulation would have almost identical HTML and simply differing diagram drawing JS, which made adding new simulations a matter of copying the template code and editing the rendering script. Merits The system code is extremely intuitive to the point where even non-programmers should be capable of understanding how the system is set up. The most complex system, the Rolling Disk Pendulum, has no less than 7 components exerting classical forces on each other, but the Euler-Lagrange equations convert this simply to a set of simultaneous equations that can be solved instantly for individual accelerations. This results in fluid motion appearing on the screen, no matter how chaotic the system is....
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Hackpad by @Dantheman240402 | Stardance
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Title: Hackpad by @Dantheman240402 | Stardance
De Title: Hackpad by @Dantheman240402 | Stardance
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I just finished the PCB board stuff and next I will work on the Fusion360 part (photo low quality cause its from Lapse and its zoomed out a bit)
Hackpad on fusion...
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RBWR Web by @I-like-BWRs | Stardance
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Title: RBWR Web by @I-like-BWRs | Stardance
Devlo Title: RBWR Web by @I-like-BWRs | Stardance
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First Part of Web Development (Update logs)
Basic UI improvements...
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Fractal Explorer by @exasperadou | Stardance
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[{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-0 [{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-09-21T01:42:29Z", "hours": 4.0, "multiplier": 3.46, "payout": 13, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "Fractal Explorer is a fractal visualizer where you can explore fractals and create your own. This project wasn’t as fun as i expected :( . I had to learn some OpenGL and it was kinda hard but i did know some C, which helped me understand some of the syntax and logic. School started which caused me to not work on this a lot, but i did it. I hope you like it", "repo": "https://github.com/exasperadou-max/fractal-Explorer", "demo": "https://exasperadou-max.github.io/fractal-Explorer/"}]...
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[{"post_id": 71479, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71479, "ts": "2026-09-20T22:00:17Z", "hours": 2.0667, "text": "Im done!!!"}, {"post_id": 65709, "ts": "2026-09-11T01:21:16Z", "hours": 1.2756, "text": "I progressed on the CSS and the design of the page, not the fractal yet :)"}, {"post_id": 63960, "ts": "2026-09-08T01:40:30Z", "hours": 0.3536, "text": "Fractal Explorer is a website where you can visualize and explore some fractals and even make your own :) . I finished the html and it looks good so far, i actually took like 1.4 hours doing this but the hackatime didnt work so i had to reset it and make it work"}]...
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Title: Fractal Explorer by @exasperadou | Stardanc Title: Fractal Explorer by @exasperadou | Stardance
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Fractal Explorer is a website where you can visualize and explore some fractals and even make your own :) . I finished the html and it looks good so far, i actually took like 1.4 hours doing this but the hackatime didnt work so i had to reset it and make it work
I progressed on the CSS and the design of the page, not the fractal yet :)
Im done!!!
Ships:
Fractal Explorer is a fractal visualizer where you can explore fractals and create your own. This project wasn’t as fun as i expected :( . I had to learn some OpenGL and it was kinda hard but i did know some C, which helped me understand some of the syntax and logic. School started which caused me to not work on this a lot, but i did it. I hope you like it...
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shadow less light by @flyingfish | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71477, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71477, "ts": "2026-09-20T21:56:22Z", "hours": 7.8586, "text": "https://youtu.be/H-r51vnOVfs everything is done i can ship now there wasnt a lot of stuff to say in the midle of development so the devlogs got kinda bad around the middle"}, {"post_id": 69984, "ts": "2026-09-18T05:47:32Z", "hours": 6.7189, "text": "i have the video on my phone but i dont have wifi rn so you can have this i assembed every thing and starded the covumantation"}, {"post_id": 68285, "ts": "2026-09-14T20:58:58Z", "hours": 7.6081, "text": "100% done with 3d modeling it just takes a long time to proint everything"}, {"post_id": 66330, "ts": "2026-09-12T03:15:51Z", "hours": 8.2417, "text": "um i have done almost everything besides the case servos were breaking everything so aparently even if you dont use a servo on pin 10 0r 9 the servo lobrary still disables it but i uses those for red and green so i will need to figure that out later all panels and the main board are soldered and wired controlls when you click on the rotary encoder it changes what value you are changeing white - white lights red - red lights green - green lights blue - blue lights yellow - servos (not working) purple - turns on uv on main pannel"}, {"post_id": 65764, "ts": "2026-09-11T03:41:50Z", "hours": 4.5517, "text": "i started soldering everything over to the mother board i was able to dim the lights but i broke also its like green idk but most of the fir ware is done"}, {"post_id": 65105, "ts": "2026-09-10T00:33:09Z", "hours": 2.18, "text": "i have finished most of the soldering the rest is just small stuff"}, {"post_id": 64596, "ts": "2026-09-09T03:20:50Z", "hours": 5.7506, "text": "i am at 7/9 sooo close"}, {"post_id": 64439, "ts": "2026-09-08T20:21:40Z", "hours": 2.9669, "text": "i just made a a panel i am at 5/8 i am going to try to finish the other 3 today also"}, {"post_id": 64073, "ts": "2026-09-08T07:05:34Z", "hours": 3.8169, "text": "i got the uv lights all soldered up and made another panel i have made 4/8 panels i was going to meanchen how i have posted 3 devlogs today but i just noticed it became tomorrow during my last recording"}, {"post_id": 63995, "ts": "2026-09-08T03:05:37Z", "hours": 7.0836, "text": "i did the big one and every single light acualy works this time my back is in extreme consent pain i am almost don with soldering though my eyes i have been staring in to these lights for like 7 hr"}, {"post_id": 63665, "ts": "2026-09-07T16:29:00Z", "hours": 2.4503, "text": "i am starting to get the hang of things i lowered my chair and now i dont have insane back pain"}, {"post_id": 63304, "ts": "2026-09-07T01:49:15Z", "hours": 2.8169, "text": "i got some new stuff for soldering um and my back hurts sooo bad"}, {"post_id": 63218, "ts": "2026-09-06T22:02:36Z", "hours": 5.0336, "text": "yooo"}, {"post_id": 62617, "ts": "2026-09-06T02:45:23Z", "hours": 5.6875, "text": "so like i think i poisoned my self or somthing i wasnt able to get mech work done i am like on the verge of passing out like constently ill do a lot more tomarow"}, {"post_id": 61747, "ts": "2026-09-04T20:03:13Z", "hours": 7.3389, "text": "it works"}, {"post_id": 36826, "ts": "2026-07-29T04:02:13Z", "hours": 6.045, "text": "3d modeling and i hate windows i have finish all the 3dmodling i need to do for now and am now just waiting foe the pcbs to ship in the mean tim i wall be here https://stardance.hackclub.com/projects/41354 clips i added clips on the bottom of the outer pieaces they wew to small on the first print so i made them bigger poles i did almost a com pleat overhaul on the poles i made them connect stronger by making them go deeper in logo * i added the loo to everything because it looks cool control i add a control panel it is at the base of the main light and just kinda sits there idea i have a another idea but i am way to tired to add it rn so i am not adding it till later the idea is to have a light conecten to a pole so i can pull it off to like press it up against things rn i also want to add a uv light to it so i can cure things better"}, {"post_id": 35555, "ts": "2026-07-27T02:13:05Z", "hours": 9.48, "text": "windows is soo slow i am making this because i have been modeling for 10hr and more then 10hr doesn’t log to star dance will make a longer devlog in a bit"}, {"post_id": 33887, "ts": "2026-07-24T05:20:04Z", "hours": 4.9367, "text": "alright i got the pcbs 100% done for real this time UV i fully implemented the UV lights IR i gave the option to attach a it receiver so i can do that in the futor if i want to logo i added the updated logo silkscreen i went through the silkscreen and fixed all there errors check i want through literately every since trace and footprint on these boards to make sure i am actually done designing thease"}, {"post_id": 33673, "ts": "2026-07-23T19:40:16Z", "hours": 5.7425, "text": "so turns out i was not done with the pcbs i redesigned the logo i gave it this outline and added a gear to the light bulb uv i had the idea to add uv light to the light for like idk i will probably never use it but its fun the best use i can think of is curing resen witch is really cool i added them in to the pcb redesign so while adding the uv i realized i didnt use the vertion of the foot print ment for hand a soldering so i made sure to fix that hopfully they are done for real this time"}, {"post_id": 32810, "ts": "2026-07-22T06:19:52Z", "hours": 9.4156, "text": "logo i got everything done to get the pcbs orderd Logo i made a logo so i could add it to the silkscreen for some extra style mother board the mother board is basically an Arduino what directly plugs in to 36 outputs so it can control all 9 boards controll to make the controller i have desided it is going to be comprised of 3 componest the indicator a rotary encoder and a switch indicator it is passively a relay small since wrgb controller so i can do a small display type out but it is also nice because i have extra of all the components so this will make them easy to use for other components jlc is goofy so if you have sevral break away bords in one they charge you for all of them witch is like a lot and the work around is if you split all of them in to there own file it only cost like $2 per board so instead of paying $20 for for board i paid $8 for the same amount this is what i split everything in to fin_right fin_left indicator mother_board main_light"}, {"post_id": 32122, "ts": "2026-07-21T02:09:02Z", "hours": 6.1692, "text": "uh i am so tired i did like 6hr of work while fighting to stay awake split i split the pcb in to 2 100mm sections becouse it is like a lot cheaper. i have no mony to connect between panels i come up with an idea that is rather guineas or it is going to be the biggest mistake in the entire project i put 5 pads on the sides of each board and i am planing to aline the boards then bridge the gap with solder this should electrically connect the 2 boards and hold them together at least a bit net i finished the net on the main pcb i finished the not on the fins flip just like yesterday i flipped the pcb so that the leds work"}, {"post_id": 31867, "ts": "2026-07-20T16:31:24Z", "hours": 7.3906, "text": "data sheet uh resistors i moved the resistors like 5mm apart because i have plenty of space and it will be like X400 easier so solder i am blind i was testing the led so i can make sure every thing works the led is like really small so i was leaning in so that i can see the pins so i can try and turn it on… so like it is super bright and i burned a little dot in my eye data sheet so when i was testing the led i noticed that you need to power it from the left side and i assumed that it was powered from the right side i was curious as to why i got it backwards because i reference the data sheet like all the time. so apparently the schematic counted clockwise. while everything else on the data sheet is counter-clockwise like look at pg 15 and you can see why i assumed the power went from right to left not left to right https://downloads.cree-led.com/files/ds/h/HB-CLW6A-TKW.pdf the flip so i needed to flip the entire pcb becouse the power is on the wrong side i would have just rotated it around but scene the resistors are specific to the pins that wouldn’t work and the leds would burn out i also learned that you cant mirror footprints on kicad so what i did was set the center of my pcb to (0,0) then went through and switch the sign on every x value on the pcb"}, {"post_id": 31021, "ts": "2026-07-19T02:34:27Z", "hours": 6.3408, "text": "i am making things small small i have decided to find some way to fit everything in to 100 mm pieces the old deign would have costed like $30 idk why but pcb manufacturers really like 100mm x 100mm and each only cost like 1 dollar"}, {"post_id": 30448, "ts": "2026-07-18T00:20:00Z", "hours": 4.9019, "text": "pcb are really time consuming i have found (expetaly if you have never used any kinda pcb editor) bigger trace the traces on my pcb before were a bit to small and there was a good chance they would but each light pulls 20mA witch is 0.02A there is 25 lights and each has 4 light in side because RGBW witch means this could potently run at 2 amps and the 0.2 mm traces can only handle like 0.5A(i forgot but it is a smaller number) so i mad most things bigger lets hope it doesn’t explode"}, {"post_id": 29907, "ts": "2026-07-17T02:32:06Z", "hours": 4.6172, "text": "pcbs are like really expenceve so turns out most pcb manufatuers only sell 5 panels at a time so i shrunk my design down to just 2 so i get 10 in total also all the components arrived from mouser because i assumed it would take waaaay longer for them to ship"}, {"post_id": 29262, "ts": "2026-07-16T02:11:59Z", "hours": 6.4558, "text": "i think i got scamed idk why but like a lot of my time just didnt get logged i am working on it fins are done i put the finishing toutches on the fin lights mainly changing out the mosfets and stuff net so i had no clue what net is and aparently i was sposed to be lableing what everything is sposed to canect to so it can auto check for shorts so i spent like 2 hrs individualy assining a value to all the pads on the pcb panalization i was doing a lot of stuff trying to figure out panzatoin its almost done i think"}, {"post_id": 28654, "ts": "2026-07-15T01:16:48Z", "hours": 10.5153, "text": "so i had to go to my grand parents over the week end so i want able to get much work done but i figured out how to use kicad on my laptop so it was funny in the car while we driving i was working and then kicad crashed before i saved and i had to restart and then after i had done it all a second time i saved and turns out my kicad was out of date so i had to restart all i did was sett up the main pcb that has the 25 lights as seen below the zig zag pattern is because all the lights need to be connected in parallel the really weird pattern in the middle right was because the light was too close to the side so i had to move things and that is that only way i could find that things fit new mosfets i just changed the mosfets for fun idk"}, {"post_id": 26330, "ts": "2026-07-11T01:59:42Z", "hours": 10.4356, "text": "i did a lot of work on the pcb and Um idk i burnt my hand RGBW to i decided i would have 10 per segment and 25 on the core 105 in total witch end up at 8 amps and 1050 lumins resistors i decided to giv every pin its own resistor witch ends up with 420 resistor is need to solder i have never hand solder a smd component this is going to be a learning expireence mostfets i think i was high earlier it is like realy easy to fin smd mosfets i added smd mosfets i have in idea regarding the stand i didnt like the crane becouse it was really bulky and i feel like it wont move how i want it to and i wanted like a standered desk lamp where it can me moved easy but it is too wide for that to work well so what if i take the same mechonisum as the desk arm and just mount it to the wall"}, {"post_id": 24530, "ts": "2026-07-08T04:31:37Z", "hours": 5.7922, "text": "so i have to delete all of the pcb work i had before . i learned that making white light with RGB sucks and causes eye strain and it wont be brite enough RGBW i switched to RGBW leds witch is the same but with a dedicated white led the white light fixes both problems the pure white light wont cause eye strain and they are about 4x brighter then the old ones however it took me like 3 hours to figure out how to add a footprint to my library"}, {"post_id": 23669, "ts": "2026-07-06T19:38:41Z", "hours": 4.6003, "text": "so i managed to not save and lost all my progress again pcb rgb so the rgb have common anode(+) witch means yo just need to power the one pin then short witch color you want to turn on i learned how to us the seconded layer in order to hook all the cathodes(-) together mosfet the plan is to use the mosfets to switch each color on using a arduino idk why i couldn’t find any smd mosfets so i added tht mosfets and put them in backward to i can add a heatsink with out it getting in the way of the light resistors idk man its a resistor its not that exiting"}, {"post_id": 23003, "ts": "2026-07-05T18:22:30Z", "hours": 4.7006, "text": "so uh i worked for a long time then a black out hit and i lost all of it"}, {"post_id": 21865, "ts": "2026-07-04T01:07:06Z", "hours": 4.8339, "text": "i finished the crane for the case matirials i decided to make part of the crane out of pvc pipe because idk i don’t know anything better *changeable i made a simple pole connector to hole the thing on so that the crane can hold any future projects if needed *motor i have been debating whether it is worth it to make it motorized at the moment it is set up to be but idk"}, {"post_id": 20491, "ts": "2026-07-02T02:58:40Z", "hours": 4.2003, "text": "so this is the first time i have ever used kicad there is not a lot to say here i just spent like 4 trying to make a pcb and nothing happend execpt things turned green every so often and idk why"}, {"post_id": 19714, "ts": "2026-07-01T03:18:51Z", "hours": 4.7839, "text": "i worked on the core model servo i made places for the servos to sit in the core *the servos will push and pull the control poles to tilt the segments *poles the poles i printed earlier finished and i though i could get away with just 2 servos but i am going to need 4 other then that is seems to work as expected for now *RGB *ngl i just think it would be funny to add RGB and it could help with very specific tasked i gouess *general so i feel kinda dumb but i realized i could add lights on the bottom of the core too so that is something i am working on now i did a lot of general changes to the design mainly getting rid of unneeded plastic witch makes it look cooler"}, {"post_id": 17315, "ts": "2026-06-28T01:16:37Z", "hours": 9.3347, "text": "so i want to make a desk lamp that works the same way that surgery lamps so there is no shadows constraints: bright: i want to be able to use it to see no shadows: i don’t want shadows alright this is the model so far: it has 8 segments : place to mount a pcb a hole with a pole that lets it swivel a second hole to have a pole that can control it moving in and out(see more farther down) each has 2 brackets that hold the swivel pole to the center control poles like the segments there are 8 of these each of them have a hole and a pole the idea is you thread the pole part thought the hole of another one till it comes all the way around then if one is pusher out it should push all of them out i am currently printing some small versions to see if the concept workes center it is curtly just a block with slits for the brackest i am sure there will be more on it latter"}]...
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Title: shadow less light by @flyingfish | Stardanc Title: shadow less light by @flyingfish | Stardance
Devlogs:
so i want to make a desk lamp that works the same way that surgery lamps so there is no shadows constraints: bright: i want to be able to use it to see no shadows: i don’t want shadows alright this is the model so far: it has 8 segments : place to mount a pcb a hole with a pole that lets it swivel a second hole to have a pole that can control it moving in and out(see more farther down) each has 2 brackets that hold the swivel pole to the center control poles like the segments there are 8 of these each of them have a hole and a pole the idea is you thread the pole part thought the hole of another one till it comes all the way around then if one is pusher out it should push all of them out i am currently printing some small versions to see if the concept workes center it is curtly just a block with slits for the brackest i am sure there will be more on it latter
i worked on the core model servo i made places for the servos to sit in the core *the servos will push and pull the control poles to tilt the segments *poles the poles i printed earlier finished and i though i could get away with just 2 servos but i am going to need 4 other then that is seems to work as expected for now *RGB *ngl i just think it would be funny to add RGB and it could help with very specific tasked i gouess *general so i feel kinda dumb but i realized i could add lights on the bottom of the core too so that is something i am working on now i did a lot of general changes to the design mainly getting rid of unneeded plastic witch makes it look cooler
so this is the first time i have ever used kicad there is not a lot to say here i just spent like 4 trying to make a pcb and nothing happend execpt things turned green every so often and idk why
i finished the crane for the case matirials i decided to make part of the crane out of pvc pipe because idk i don’t know anything better *changeable i made a simple pole connector to hole the thing on so that the crane can hold any future projects if needed *motor i have been debating whether it is worth it to make it motorized at the moment it is set up to be but idk
so uh i worked for a long time then a black out hit and i lost all of it
so i managed to not save and lost all my progress again pcb rgb so the rgb have common anode(+) witch means yo just need to power the one pin then short witch color you want to turn on i learned how to us the seconded layer in order to hook all the cathodes(-) together mosfet the plan is to use the mosfets to switch each color on using a arduino idk why i couldn’t find any smd mosfets so i added tht mosfets and put them in backward to i can add a heatsink with out it getting in the way of the light resistors idk man its a resistor its not that exiting
so i have to delete all of the pcb work i had before . i learned that making white light with RGB sucks and causes eye strain and it wont be brite enough RGBW i switched to RGBW leds witch is the same but with a dedicated white led the white light fixes both problems the pure white light wont cause eye strain and they are about 4x brighter then the old ones however it took me like 3 hours to figure out how to add a footprint to my library
i did a lot of work on the pcb and Um idk i burnt my hand RGBW to i decided i would have 10 per segment and 25 on the core 105 in total witch end up at 8 amps and 1050 lumins resistors i decided to giv every pin its own resistor witch ends up with 420 resistor is need to solder i have never hand solder a smd component this is going to be a learning expireence mostfets i think i was high earlier it is like realy easy to fin smd mosfets i added smd mosfets i have in idea regarding the stand i didnt like the crane becouse it was really bulky and i feel like it wont move how i want it to and i wanted like a standered desk lamp where it can me moved easy but it is too wide for that to work well so what if i take the same mechonisum as the desk arm and just mount it to the wall
so i had to go to my grand parents over the week end so i want able to get much work done but i figured out how to use kicad on my laptop so it was funny in the car while we driving i was working and then kicad crashed before i saved and i had to restart and then after i had done it all a second time i saved and turns out my kicad was out of date so i had to restart all i did was sett up the main pcb that has the 25 lights as seen below the zig zag pattern is because all the lights need to be connected in parallel the really weird pattern in the middle right was because the light was too close to the side so i had to move things and that is that only way i could find that things fit new mosfets i just changed the mosfets for fun idk
i think i got scamed idk why but like a lot of my time just didnt get logged i am working on it fins are done i put the finishing toutches on the fin lights mainly changing out the mosfets and stuff net so i had no clue what net is and aparently i was sposed to be lableing what everything is sposed to canect to so it can auto check for shorts so i spent like 2 hrs individualy assining a value to all the pads on the pcb panalization i was doing a lot of stuff trying to figure out panzatoin its almost done i think
pcbs are like really expenceve so turns out most pcb manufatuers only sell 5 panels at a time so i shrunk my design down to just 2 so i get 10 in total also all the components arrived from mouser because i assumed it would take waaaay longer for them to ship
pcb are really time consuming i have found (expetaly if you have never used any kinda pcb editor) bigger trace the traces on my pcb before were a bit to small and there was a good chance they would but each light pulls 20mA witch is 0.02A there is 25 lights and each has 4 light in side because RGBW witch means this could potently run at 2 amps and the 0.2 mm traces can only handle like 0.5A(i forgot but it is a smaller number) so i mad most things bigger lets hope it doesn’t explode
i am making things small small i have decided to find some way to fit everything in to 100 mm pieces the old deign would have costed like $30 idk why but pcb manufacturers really like 100mm x 100mm and each only cost like 1 dollar
data sheet uh resistors i moved the resistors like 5mm apart because i have plenty of space and it will be like X400 easier so solder i am blind i was testing the led so i can make sure every thing works the led is like really small so i was leaning in so that i can see the pins so i can try and turn it on… so like it is super bright and i burned a little dot in my eye data sheet so when i was testing the led i noticed that you need to power it from the left side and i assumed that it was powered from the right side i was curious as to why i got it backwards because i reference the data sheet like all the time. so apparently the schematic counted clockwise. while everything else on the data sheet is counter-clockwise like look at pg 15 and you can see why i assumed the power went from right to left not left to right https://downloads.cree-led.com/files/ds/h/HB-CLW6A-TKW.pdf the flip so i needed to flip the entire pcb becouse the power is on the wrong side i would have just rotated it around but scene the resistors are specific to the pins that wouldn’t work and the leds would burn out i also learned that you cant mirror footprints on kicad so what i did was set the center of my pcb to (0,0) then went through and switch the sign on every x value on the pcb
uh i am so tired i did like 6hr of work while fighting to stay awake split i split the pcb in to 2 100mm sections becouse it is like a lot cheaper. i have no mony to connect between panels i come up with an idea that is rather guineas or it is going to be the biggest mistake in the entire project i put 5 pads on the sides of each board and i am planing to aline the boards then bridge the gap with solder this should electrically connect the 2 boards and hold them together at least a bit net i finished the net on the main pcb i finished the not on the fins flip just like yesterday i flipped the pcb so that the leds work
logo i got everything done to get the pcbs orderd Logo i made a logo so i could add it to the silkscreen for some extra style mother board the mother board is basically an Arduino what directly plugs in to 36 outputs so it can control all 9 boards controll to make the controller i have desided it is going to be comprised of 3 componest the indicator a rotary encoder and a switch indicator it is passively a relay small since wrgb controller so i can do a small display type out but it is also nice because i have extra of all the components so this will make them easy to use for other components jlc is goofy so if you have sevral break away bords in one they charge you for all of them witch is like a lot and the work around is if you split all of them in to there own file it only cost like $2 per board so instead of paying $20 for for board i paid $8 for the same amount this is what i split everything in to fin_right fin_left indicator mother_board main_light
so turns out i was not done with the pcbs i redesigned the logo i gave it this outline and added a gear to the light bulb uv i had the idea to add uv light to the light for like idk i will probably never use it but its fun the best use i can think of is curing resen witch is really cool i added them in to the pcb redesign so while adding the uv i realized i didnt use the vertion of the foot print ment for hand a soldering so i made sure to fix that hopfully they are done for real this time
alright i got the pcbs 100% done for real this time UV i fully implemented the UV lights IR i gave the option to attach a it receiver so i can do that in the futor if i want to logo i added the updated logo silkscreen i went through the silkscreen and fixed all there errors check i want through literately every since trace and footprint on these boards to make sure i am actually done designing thease
windows is soo slow i am making this because i have been modeling for 10hr and more then 10hr doesn’t log to star dance will make a longer devlog in a bit
3d modeling and i hate windows i have finish all the 3dmodling i need to do for now and am now just waiting foe the pcbs to ship in the mean tim i wall be here https://stardance.hackclub.com/projects/41354 clips i added clips on the bottom of the outer pieaces they wew to small on the first print so i made them bigger poles i did almost a com pleat overhaul on the poles i made them connect stronger by making them go deeper in logo * i added the loo to everything because it looks cool control i add a control panel it is at the base of the main light and just kinda sits there idea i have a another idea but i am way to tired to add it rn so i am not adding it till later the idea is to have a light conecten to a pole so i can pull it off to like press it up against things rn i also want to add a uv light to it so i can cure things better
it works
so like i think i poisoned my self or somthing i wasnt able to get mech work done i am like on the verge of passing out like constently ill do a lot more tomarow
yooo
i got some new stuff for soldering um and my back hurts sooo bad
i am starting to get the hang of things i lowered my chair and now i dont have insane back pain
i did the big one and every single light acualy works this time my back is in extreme consent pain i am almost don with soldering though my eyes i have been staring in to these lights for like 7 hr
i got the uv lights all soldered up and made another panel i have made 4/8 panels i was going to meanchen how i have posted 3 devlogs today but i just noticed it became tomorrow during my last recording
i just made a a panel i am at 5/8 i am going to try to finish the other 3 today also
i am at 7/9 sooo close
i have finished most of the soldering the rest is just small stuff
i started soldering everything over to the mother board i was able to dim the lights but i broke also its like green idk but most of the fir ware is done
um i have done almost everything besides the case servos were breaking everything so aparently even if you dont use a servo on pin 10 0r 9 the servo lobrary still disables it but i uses those for red and green so i will need to figure that out later all panels and the main board are soldered and wired controlls when you click on the rotary encoder it changes what value you are changeing white - white lights red - red lights green - green lights blue - blue lights yellow - servos (not working) purple - turns on uv on main pannel
100% done with 3d modeling it just takes a long time to proint everything
i have the video on my phone but i dont have wifi rn so you can have this i assembed every thing and starded the covumantation
https://youtu.be/H-r51vnOVfs everything is done i can ship now there wasnt a lot of stuff to say in the midle of development so the devlogs got kinda bad around the middle
Ships:
this is a desk lamp inspired my surgery lights this is my first time ever doing a pcb or smd soldering i learned a ton it was super fun...
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Title: BUGATTI Brouillard by @nejenabinupa | Stard Title: BUGATTI Brouillard by @nejenabinupa | Stardance
Devlogs:
I’m starting from front, making the hood and the front bumper And looking good so far
I make the back and and the said skirt and the wing
I make the back of the car and added sum more parts to to it
i make the sum parts in the car like headlights and enging bay
i added the grills and sum parts and i cut the sections sparest the panels
I added sum more details adjusted sum things and added textures and materials to the modle and I need to make the wheels and more stuff
I added the rims and sum more materials and textures...
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[{"post_id": 7147, "ts": "2026 [{"post_id": 7147, "ts": "2026-06-11T22:43:34Z", "hours": 2.4367, "text": "Made a macropad! Did not expect to suffer so much. I genuinely think engineering is just a measure of how many small problems you can tolerate before you combust. This took wayy more than 2.5 hours I just did not know how to use either Lapse or Hackatime and I suffered quite a lot off camera. PCB wasn’t that bad. I still have no idea how KiCad does any sort of positioning (from where in the object is the position calculated?? why is it so different across objects?? why does align just never work???), and it’s also deeply wonky switching back and forth from KiCad to Altium for different projects. It’s really nice not having to worry about any complications (signal processing, hunting down or making 3D models, etc) with wiring for once. CAD went alright! I feel like you notice a lot of fun quality of life features that Fusion is missing when you start doing CAD for a bit. I’d love to be able to group objects or parts of a sketch and have them behave the same way. I’d love to have an easy way to find the midpoint or centers in a sketch. I’d love a way to align objects. oh well ! First time using QMK! Took a while to install and learn. I think I genuinely spent an hour scrolling through documentation. I imagine I’ll have to do some more wrangling when I flash it. Finally done! I can finally sleep."}]...
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Title: myMacropad by @heian | Stardance
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Title: myMacropad by @heian | Stardance
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Made a macropad! Did not expect to suffer so much. I genuinely think engineering is just a measure of how many small problems you can tolerate before you combust. This took wayy more than 2.5 hours I just did not know how to use either Lapse or Hackatime and I suffered quite a lot off camera. PCB wasn’t that bad. I still have no idea how KiCad does any sort of positioning (from where in the object is the position calculated?? why is it so different across objects?? why does align just never work???), and it’s also deeply wonky switching back and forth from KiCad to Altium for different projects. It’s really nice not having to worry about any complications (signal processing, hunting down or making 3D models, etc) with wiring for once. CAD went alright! I feel like you notice a lot of fun quality of life features that Fusion is missing when you start doing CAD for a bit. I’d love to be able to group objects or parts of a sketch and have them behave the same way. I’d love to have an easy way to find the midpoint or centers in a sketch. I’d love a way to align objects. oh well ! First time using QMK! Took a while to install and learn. I think I genuinely spent an hour scrolling through documentation. I imagine I’ll have to do some more wrangling when I flash it. Finally done! I can finally sleep.
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Custom Hackpad! My first time using QMK, so that was a learning curve. I’m proud of how it turned out....
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[{"post_id": 71468, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71468, "ts": "2026-09-20T21:45:15Z", "hours": 0.2842, "text": "Just wanted to address some feedback a shipwright gave me: some of the buttons not working on the site is an INTENTIONAL choice. Let me explain: me and two other friends made an original site where we ‘advertised’ our games as one bundle, but I have only included the pages that I made entirely myself. So the only two pages that should load is the Leaderboard page ( https://tennislegend.pythonanywhere.com/leaderboard ) and the Original i guess ‘general’ CyberMatch page ( https://tennislegend.pythonanywhere.cm/cybermatch ). I decided to keep the buttons, and make them seem like clickable by having the cursor change to a pointer, yet lead nowhere, as you can see in an examples pictured below. Every other functionality like entering a value in the leaderboard, the Easter Eggs (like the cat), etc, should work perfectly."}, {"post_id": 69032, "ts": "2026-09-16T07:54:06Z", "hours": 3.0478, "text": "Since exams picked up, I got the chance to add to this throughout the last few weeks, but didn’t get a chance to write a devlog as consistently as I wanted to, so I have decided to make one big one with each devlog that I would’ve liked to make below: Devlog 3 - 9/9/2026 I mainly worked on the CSS for the Leaderboard page. I gave it a dark theme, added a box around the table and added hover effects for each entry. When hovering over a row, the background changes from black to grey, and the text becomes gold for first place, silver for second, bronze for third and green for all other positions. One thing I had to watch out for was making sure the silver text was still easy to read against the grey background. I also made sure that the new styling didn’t interfere with any of the styling on the Original page. Devlog 4 - 10/9/2026 to 14/9/2026 I finished off most of the Leaderboard page. I added a background, more borders and boxes, and adjusted the styling so it matched the Original page more closely. I also improved the sorting system by stopping users from entering numbers into the name fields and letters into the time field. Another thing I fixed was the sorting of names, because capital letters were being sorted differently to lowercase ones, which meant names were sometimes appearing in the wrong order. After adjusting the backend code, names would sort properly regardless of how they were entered. I also added a link to the Leaderboard page from the Original page, removed old links that were no longer used, and made sure both pages displayed properly on phones as well as laptops."}, {"post_id": 64485, "ts": "2026-09-08T22:15:42Z", "hours": 3.175, "text": "Took me ages to combine the CSS into one file without any errors, but I finally did it :) [took like 1 1/2 hrs btw 😭] Oh, I added a sort function to it, as seen below in the image, and when you hover over an entry it changes the background colour to a bit more grey. Also the leaderboard is finally a table! :)"}, {"post_id": 61189, "ts": "2026-09-04T00:14:55Z", "hours": 1.0667, "text": "I started the Leaderboard’s back- and front-end, with the footer from my Original page added to the Leaderboard page. I also added a first and last name function, with placeholder text in the boxes too. Looking a bit dull right now, but will improve soon enough!"}]...
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Title: Leaderboard for CyberMatch by @Tennis-Legen Title: Leaderboard for CyberMatch by @Tennis-Legend | Stardance
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I started the Leaderboard’s back- and front-end, with the footer from my Original page added to the Leaderboard page. I also added a first and last name function, with placeholder text in the boxes too. Looking a bit dull right now, but will improve soon enough!
Took me ages to combine the CSS into one file without any errors, but I finally did it :) [took like 1 1/2 hrs btw 😭] Oh, I added a sort function to it, as seen below in the image, and when you hover over an entry it changes the background colour to a bit more grey. Also the leaderboard is finally a table! :)
Since exams picked up, I got the chance to add to this throughout the last few weeks, but didn’t get a chance to write a devlog as consistently as I wanted to, so I have decided to make one big one with each devlog that I would’ve liked to make below: Devlog 3 - 9/9/2026 I mainly worked on the CSS for the Leaderboard page. I gave it a dark theme, added a box around the table and added hover effects for each entry. When hovering over a row, the background changes from black to grey, and the text becomes gold for first place, silver for second, bronze for third and green for all other positions. One thing I had to watch out for was making sure the silver text was still easy to read against the grey background. I also made sure that the new styling didn’t interfere with any of the styling on the Original page. Devlog 4 - 10/9/2026 to 14/9/2026 I finished off most of the Leaderboard page. I added a background, more borders and boxes, and adjusted the styling so it matched the Original page more closely. I also improved the sorting system by stopping users from entering numbers into the name fields and letters into the time field. Another thing I fixed was the sorting of names, because capital letters were being sorted differently to lowercase ones, which meant names were sometimes appearing in the wrong order. After adjusting the backend code, names would sort properly regardless of how they were entered. I also added a link to the Leaderboard page from the Original page, removed old links that were no longer used, and made sure both pages displayed properly on phones as well as laptops.
Just wanted to address some feedback a shipwright gave me: some of the buttons not working on the site is an INTENTIONAL choice. Let me explain: me and two other friends made an original site where we ‘advertised’ our games as one bundle, but I have only included the pages that I made entirely myself. So the only two pages that should load is the Leaderboard page ( https://tennislegend.pythonanywhere.com/leaderboard ) and the Original i guess ‘general’ CyberMatch page ( https://tennislegend.pythonanywhere.cm/cybermatch ). I decided to keep the buttons, and make them seem like clickable by having the cursor change to a pointer, yet lead nowhere, as you can see in an examples pictured below. Every other functionality like entering a value in the leaderboard, the Easter Eggs (like the cat), etc, should work perfectly.
Ships:
I made a leaderboard system for CyberMatch using HTML, CSS, Python and Flask. The project allows users to submit their details and time, then view the results on a separate leaderboard page that can be sorted in different ways. Along the way I added a dedicated leaderboard layout, a dark theme, hover effects, responsive design for phones and laptops, and links between the original page and the leaderboard page. One of the bigger challenges was getting the sorting system to work properly. At one point names with capital letters would sort differently to names with lowercase letters, which caused some entries to appear in the wrong order. I also had to make sure users could only enter appropriate values into each field so that invalid data wouldn’t affect the leaderboard. After making a few backend changes, the sorting became much more reliable and the input fields behaved as expected. I’m most proud of how the leaderboard ended up looking. The dark theme, green accents and rank highlighting make it feel much better than a plain table. When hovering over an entry, the row changes to a grey background and the text colour changes depending on position, with gold for first, silver for second, bronze for third and green for everyone else. To see the project, click the “Try project” button or go to https://cybermatch.onrender.com/leaderboard . To test it out, try adding a few entries with different names and times, then use the sorting options to make sure everything updates correctly. It is also worth testing on both a laptop and a phone, as the layout was adjusted to work properly on different screen sizes....
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Title: WIEBZ-K1 by @zephano | Stardance
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Title: WIEBZ-K1 by @zephano | Stardance
Devlogs:
So today i officially started my project (i hope i finish it before the deadline💀💀)…so i started with the pcb schematics ….i didnt finish it today so ill try to do that tommorow (or some time….[im very busy])
So yh ive finished the pcb design….all the way from the schematics to the pcb design…i had a lot of issues but i overcame them…one of the problems was the switches footprints weren’t aligning so i use KLE (keyboard layout editor)….and i plugin on ki cad to places the footprints side by side in their respective areas… there are a lot to say and i broke all the challenges down in my github journal…. check it out
well ive been busy for a while and i couldnt continue the project but we are back now…..so yh i switched…..imma build my own keyboard…i call it wiebz-k1…so i started the case…i did the front case and the back case and fitted everything together…..my fusion kept crashing over and over again which go really annoying….well i cant really blame it, i was using about 97% of ram sooo…anyways whats remaning is just to add the screw holes to the back and front case and ill be done with that
so after looking at the first case design…i felt it was kinda bad and bulky for no reason….so today i decided to redesing the case…..completely scraping the front case and only leaving the plate and bottom case….the i dea was to get that floating keys stuff…and also that will make the whole thing more compact...
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Cirqmon by @itsdecodeaditya | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71464, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71464, "ts": "2026-09-20T21:31:02Z", "hours": 2.8469, "text": "Cirqmon Devlog #12 So I guess it’s final Devlog. Here firstly I updated Readme with new UI based snapshots. Made custom Alert box so it matches the theme instead of browser native alert box. Fixed bug in which earlier the gates were being added in circuit without checking if that Block is being used by other gate and its corresponding qubits. I hope if I don’t get a new problem to fix I will ship it;"}, {"post_id": 71194, "ts": "2026-09-20T12:52:50Z", "hours": 8.1419, "text": "Cirqmon Devlog #11 So Guys, I have finally finalized the Cirqmon Playground UI. I replaced the old glassmorphism theme with a rougher, more irregular visual style. Earlier I got feedback that, the old layout felt cluttered because the quantum gates were spread far apart and Due to Space Background and glassmorphism, it looked like Vibe coded. I have now grouped all the gates together in one place to make the interface cleaner and easier to navigate. Here Is what I changed: Removed the Home button. Clicking the Cirqmon logo now takes gets back to the home page. Updated Playground icons with Animal GIFs to give it more lively and engaging appearance. As mentioned above, reduced the use of glassmorphism to due to flickering issues and implemented like hand drawn solid color based UI. Attaching a video Snapshot so you can see changes made. also, The README is the only major task left. Once that’s finished, I’ll be ready to ship the project!"}, {"post_id": 66582, "ts": "2026-09-12T12:50:46Z", "hours": 8.0617, "text": "Cirqmon Devlog #10 Every time I think My project is ready to ship I find something missing and then it gets delayed. After I finished the blog on Deutsch Jozsa algorithm the project worked, as it needed only Single and Double qubit gate. When I started writing about Grover’s algorithm I realized the need of Three Qubit gate too as it needed CCZ gate to flip the phase to achieve 111 State. So I had to fix that. Here is what I did: Firstly as I told earlier I added the 3 Qubit gate feature, the underlying simulator code is working as old Inflating the Matrix approach, I only had to make it work for 3 Qubit gates. Secondly once I was on huddle where we were discussing about Boba bash, I presented the project to people and some said like ’it looks like too stuffed or some said it looked vibe coded. So I thought its a good feedback to work on. Then I improvised the Homepage so it feels like Apple like minimal theme while maintaining game feel. I also added the Background video instead of static image. Thirdly the blog page was pending so I made blog page with similar theme as I updated along with a option to search among the medium posts. So this was what I updated in this Version and now I needs that code review and matching the theme on Playground too. Just Hope I don’t get stuck this time and wrap it up. Thanks for Reading!"}, {"post_id": 46862, "ts": "2026-08-14T12:20:36Z", "hours": 6.1919, "text": "Cirqmon #Devlog 9 This version is more of testing, I thought that I should write blogs and use examples using Cirqmon, So Written 2 blogs on Quantum computing for Beginners and Deutsch Joza algorithm. While writing it I thought I should Show them on Cirqmon Hompage too, earlier I thought I would replace blogs part in Homepage with Just a medium link of mine, but later when I read on internet that medium allows to see RSS version of Blogs so I parsed RSS to JSON and fetched Blogs related Quantum Computing. Along with it, made Qubits limits to 8 and steps to 24 and made a centralized Config file to control parameters from there. Added a Toggle so People can switch indentation of Qubit states either Big endian or Little Endian. Updated Homepage button with Pikachu Button I found while explore on UI verse, also added link to Readme guide. Now After writing Blogs I am getting surge of confidence inside that I understood Quantum Computing more Better. One of topics I am curious about is Cybersecurity and one of Algorithm that challenges classical Approaches like RSA is Shor’s Algorithm so next I am going to explore it, Also along with all these, I have updated Some images in readme too and going to Push updates, so do Share Feedbacks."}, {"post_id": 43067, "ts": "2026-08-08T04:03:36Z", "hours": 3.9364, "text": "Cirqmon #Devlog 8 Actually I was telling my friend about project, and I realized that the Project should have better readme that tells about features, Examples, and Tour. Also added HSL wheel in Q sphere so People can Use it as a reference. Initially its faded, you hover it and it gets Visible. Also the Latest version is now Live with multi qubit gates."}, {"post_id": 41965, "ts": "2026-08-06T14:25:38Z", "hours": 8.0969, "text": "Cirqmon Devlog #7 So, I am posting this Devlog after interval of Almost 20 days since last Posted. Why delay? During this time I learnt a Lot about Quantum computing. Infact, I was planning to ship the Project with Single qubit gates only, but after I joined Qiskit Global Summer School, then I realised that main game in Quantum computing is about entanglement, that comes with multi Qubit gates like CX, CZ, SWAP etc. The Media attached is Demo is of a GHZ circuit is made by combination of H gate and CNOT gates. Basically a GHZ state is larger version of Bell state. For N qubits, only two possible states shows Up with equal probability i.e 1/root2 (000…n + 111…n). So here is What I made Changes and How : 1) 2 Qubit Gates Implementation - So Earlier Version was for Only 1 Qubit Gates, and it used Tensor product. Where it used to tensor Each step and then Multiply each step to StateVector in successive manner. But for 2 Qubit gates, tensor method gets problematic because multi qubit gates need to have dependence on other qubits too, meanwhile tensor assumes every gate on that step is independent and it builds large matrix. This loses dependence and relation as demanded by multi qubit gates. So then I got to know of approach called Embedding or Inflation where we first create Temporary matrix of 2^n rows and 2^n Columns with each entry initially as 0, then we start looping through columns of that Matrix (which represent possibility, like iteration for 0 is actually 00 in binary) and then, matching it with rows and columns in Gate matrix, after that we force the bit in Temporary Matrix’s respective column and row to align with what Gate’s matrix bit has? Either 0 or 1. Finally we get Result of application in that Temporary matrix which we multiply with StateVector later on. That’s how This Inflation Approach works. 2) Applied Phase angle Indicator Now, Quantum State’s node’s color in Q sphere shows its phase Angle, which can be from PI to -PI, calculated using formula tan2a(y,x) , then we constraint it from 0 to 2PI, later convert to degrees, then feeding that value as HUE value in HSL colour format keeping lightness as 50% and Saturation 100% and then it corresponds to Phase Angle with color that degree, like 0deg is red, 90deg is green etc. So this was Major Changes I did along with some Style changes and Minor error fixing that appeared during changing the Simulator’s Approach. And to be very Honest at when I started to Write code for 2 qubit Gates, I earlier thought I would Do something that I dont have to change Simulator, but those were still just making me cry. So finally I gone to AI to learn and for almost 2 days new experiments were going out of head and that way almost I wasted Hours and then to experiment more and Stop Tracking Hackatime since I knew It would track more hours for Experiments too, So I coded in Cursor (Without Any AI, Just as Other Editor) Untracked. At the End it worked :) Now Finally Majority part is Done, after few More Edits, Will Ship it soon!"}, {"post_id": 28525, "ts": "2026-07-14T20:44:03Z", "hours": 7.3483, "text": "Devlog #6 :) So Hey People, I am feeling Immensely satisfied that Q Sphere feature is Mostly done. Also the GateWiki part is also done that tells You about Gate you Clicked on Gates Tray, again to tell you can drag gates into Circuit to build and Tap to know about it . May be I also link blogs on that Later. Now about Q Sphere Part Okay , Now let me share about Making of Q Sphere Part , So earlier I was not able to visualize it, but somehow I got to Know about Spherical Coordinates which is dependent on: theta : angle of Line from Z Axis phi : angle of Line from x Axis But clicked finally after frustration of not understanding it earlier. Then I gone to Google searching to see 3d visuals and AI to understand how we calculate those angles: So - Based on hamming weights (Means how many 1s in that State, Suppose in |01> has 1 1s and 011 have 2 1s ) and total qubits which help us find theta and divide sphere into sort of rings for similar nodes/lines of same hamming weights in same ring. Then we find how we calculate phi based on total active states in each ring and slicing ring into same proportion. I don’t know why but that was a finally a kick for me :) Finally since you will plot lines and nodes on spherical surface you have to convert theta and phi to coordinates [x, y, z] which you do using polar coordinates . Then after plotting them, a major part of Q sphere is made. now as you can see on 2nd screenshot left side the Sphere shows nodes for respective State. more chances of being 0 is on upper half and more 1 chance on bottom half. Structured the folders Also I worked on code Structure to keep all algos separated: To parse stateVectors Parse the frontend data to json circuit instructions Making all q sphere data from stateVectors parsing Code to export in Qiskit. more such functions too.. So yeah that was work I did, little more things is needed to build, after that project is done. Adding some multi qubit gates is next important thing now. I would be pushing on Github this Version and Vercel too now. Go check it out. Namaste!!!"}, {"post_id": 27203, "ts": "2026-07-12T15:29:23Z", "hours": 8.8928, "text": "Devlog #5 :) To be very honest I forget that its 8 hours 47 minutes in hackatime and it didn’t posted devlog until I got a Notification on slack. Sooo Guys! In this part of work I had to decide a thing that should I add Visualization of Qubits or not and then I realized that’s the whole point of project [to let people easily visualize whats happening]. So thats why I have decided add Q sphere . Folder Structure First of all I realized that my project was using url images and project structure was actually messing up as files and folders were increasing, so I decided to first organise the chaos and downloading all internet 3d assets in project. [Screenshot -1]. Because without a better organization of project it would get intimidatingly hard for others to contribute. Big Endian vs Little Endian Now second part is making the Result page of Qubit execution match that 3d glassmorphism design and white browsing through IBM composer (Tool for making Circuits) I got to observe that states were actually reverse in order. Suppose you applied hadamard gate to first qubit in 2 qubit system so instead of showing Probabilities of states as |00> = 50% , |01> = 0 , |10> = 50% , |11> = 0 , it reversed for 01 and 10. So after reading on internet about this I got to know that both ways are right and just differs because order you calcuate tensors: G1 * G2 * G3.. gives you Big Endian Version which considers least qubit as important Vice versa in case of Little Endian as IBM uses. So I implemented both in project. Earlier I thought I broke a physics Law [haha.] Making Q Sphere Its for Q sphere [2nd screenshot], that’s what help you understand statevector, because we can’t imagine more than 3D, so IBM come with this method. Basically I have used react 3 fiber that helps us write Three.js in react easily, using JSX instead of js manually, and it shows 3 lines in space which represent each state in vector: Bigger the node on top, bigger its probability . Color tells phase angle from origin. More 0 probability the vector will be pointing on upper hemisphere’s top and similarly more 1 will point on bottom of lower hemisphere. I am still processing [x,y,z] coordinates of line. Q sphere now shows random plots, I have to parse state vector to correct representation, will tell you about it in next devlog after I have learnt and implemented this. Screen Restrictions Forth is more of usability, side by side you can see either, code and graph or sphere and graph , so understand better. Also I added a screen restrictor for small screens since running this project on phone won’t be possible because design clutterness (forget to add screenshot, but you can check live). So hope you liked this version, I know it’s too much of quantum but yeah like others I am also trying to understand better. At Last, don’t forget to check attachments and share your feedbacks. Also I think I would be pushing on github now before developing futher. Namaste!!!"}, {"post_id": 26000, "ts": "2026-07-10T15:38:00Z", "hours": 5.5644, "text": "Devlog #4 This Part was all about making Navigation work between pages and since last time I got some feedbacks that Home and Playground VIbe Don’t match so made Playground more 3d. Here are Changes - Using react router, Made Navigation between Home and Playground and Vice versa. Used 3d Resources like Background images, Button images to make it look 3d Videogame. Added button animations like some changes images, some spins. Improved qubit adjust box. Added tooltip component so people know what buttons does what, since buttons are image based. So, I have tried to make project look 3d Glassmorphism and minimal too. check out video attached to see progress till now ."}, {"post_id": 25463, "ts": "2026-07-09T19:03:49Z", "hours": 7.8494, "text": "#Devlog 3 Made Homepage for Cirqmon because I wanted to Put Medium blogs and Tool at one place so this will act as Entry door easily. Experimented with designs, fonts and images to make it feel like 3d Cartoon themed. Following things made - At first “what is does” Hero Section telling people that its a Colorful way to play and learn to make Quantum Circuits. Actually in hero section I have experimented with 3d images animations but it looked distracting UI so Removed it. but Kept H and Y gates to give a idea of Builder. Blogs Section is where it will fetch Quantum related Blogs from Medium (will write soon). Don’t forget to notice that Astronaut. Data is dummy. the Boxes use Backdrop transparent design to match with 3d design. Last is for People who would like to give feedbacks. Buttons are Demo for now. Basically UI for Homepage is Done. Now in next Version WIll use router for Navigation. ALso TBH Gemini really Helped me with Box Shadow button effects which I adjusted according to project Later. Do give Feedbacks please :)"}, {"post_id": 23711, "ts": "2026-07-06T20:20:51Z", "hours": 6.1475, "text": "Its Devlog 2 and in midway didn’t knew That I will be able to go further in project but somehow Curosity pushed it. So I have basically in this Version I made following new Things - Added fundamental Single Qubit Gates and the Moment someone drag Gates into Circuit and it get Translated into circuit Instructions JSON which tracks for which gate is applied at target and step; The moment you click on Playcircuit button it Calculates the probability of Each possible Qubit state and corresponding qiskit code; Basically this part of calculating the Circuit I had options either to use Qiskit directly via Python, Use react pre-written Scripts in react or Reinvent the Wheel by making my own Simulator which might not be as Efficient as Already made ones. So to see how strong my kidneys are I chose 3rd one. But you won’t believe I got answers to all My questions whether Why more qubits means exponential computation time, or tensors and many other things which I will write in blogs in some time. So basically it was about initializing a State vector and then running step by step tensor product of gates applied and then when I got a single wire as a result of all gates in each step, then multiply the state vector with Matrix which contains 2^N rows and columns (n is number of qubits) which finally gives you the amplitudes of each state. FInally you format them to Show. Now it still need better design and More code organization after which I will push new Version; till then You are welcome for Questions and Suggestions. Note - This version handle single qubits till now."}, {"post_id": 17512, "ts": "2026-06-28T10:11:41Z", "hours": 11.5036, "text": "Quite a While I started to learn about quantum Computing and observed that its still gives too research vibes for a beginner to overwhelm and leave it. This is Cirqmon which I am making so Building Quantum circuits become some fun without dumping every information and expecting everyone to be a Researcher. Started with making on React, giving it Cartoon or Animated vibe, earlier I thought to make it Doremon themed but later found that it would give copyright issues. For now features added- 1 ) You can Drag and Drog Quantum gates from Tray into Circuit Canvas. 2 ) Music and Background Manage buttons. 3 ) I have tried to play with Vector and Cartoon Images in Transition. 4 ) Adjust Qubits and Nodes/Steps from Drawer earlier I thought to Use Slider but used Buttons later to Avoid touch screen inconsistencies. While making the Drag and Drop canvas Features, found that using HTML Drag and drop API sometimes break on Safari and other browers and it was still making codebase look complicated for others or even me in future to Contribute. So I used @dnd kit for drag and drop feature. Also I kept a Limit on Qubits and Nodes to Keep Execution Easier and test. Majorly a Structure is Done,"}]...
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Quite a While I started to learn about quantum Computing and observed that its still gives too research vibes for a beginner to overwhelm and leave it. This is Cirqmon which I am making so Building Quantum circuits become some fun without dumping every information and expecting everyone to be a Researcher. Started with making on React, giving it Cartoon or Animated vibe, earlier I thought to make it Doremon themed but later found that it would give copyright issues. For now features added- 1 ) You can Drag and Drog Quantum gates from Tray into Circuit Canvas. 2 ) Music and Background Manage buttons. 3 ) I have tried to play with Vector and Cartoon Images in Transition. 4 ) Adjust Qubits and Nodes/Steps from Drawer earlier I thought to Use Slider but used Buttons later to Avoid touch screen inconsistencies. While making the Drag and Drop canvas Features, found that using HTML Drag and drop API sometimes break on Safari and other browers and it was still making codebase look complicated for others or even me in future to Contribute. So I used @dnd kit for drag and drop feature. Also I kept a Limit on Qubits and Nodes to Keep Execution Easier and test. Majorly a Structure is Done,
Its Devlog 2 and in midway didn’t knew That I will be able to go further in project but somehow Curosity pushed it. So I have basically in this Version I made following new Things - Added fundamental Single Qubit Gates and the Moment someone drag Gates into Circuit and it get Translated into circuit Instructions JSON which tracks for which gate is applied at target and step; The moment you click on Playcircuit button it Calculates the probability of Each possible Qubit state and corresponding qiskit code; Basically this part of calculating the Circuit I had options either to use Qiskit directly via Python, Use react pre-written Scripts in react or Reinvent the Wheel by making my own Simulator which might not be as Efficient as Already made ones. So to see how strong my kidneys are I chose 3rd one. But you won’t believe I got answers to all My questions whether Why more qubits means exponential computation time, or tensors and many other things which I will write in blogs in some time. So basically it was about initializing a State vector and then running step by step tensor product of gates applied and then when I got a single wire as a result of all gates in each step, then multiply the state vector with Matrix which contains 2^N rows and columns (n is number of qubits) which finally gives you the amplitudes of each state. FInally you format them to Show. Now it still need better design and More code organization after which I will push new Version; till then You are welcome for Questions and Suggestions. Note - This version handle single qubits till now.
#Devlog 3 Made Homepage for Cirqmon because I wanted to Put Medium blogs and Tool at one place so this will act as Entry door easily. Experimented with designs, fonts and images to make it feel like 3d Cartoon themed. Following things made - At first “what is does” Hero Section telling people that its a Colorful way to play and learn to make Quantum Circuits. Actually in hero section I have experimented with 3d images animations but it looked distracting UI so Removed it. but Kept H and Y gates to give a idea of Builder. Blogs Section is where it will fetch Quantum related Blogs from Medium (will write soon). Don’t forget to notice that Astronaut. Data is dummy. the Boxes use Backdrop transparent design to match with 3d design. Last is for People who would like to give feedbacks. Buttons are Demo for now. Basically UI for Homepage is Done. Now in next Version WIll use router for Navigation. ALso TBH Gemini really Helped me with Box Shadow button effects which I adjusted according to project Later. Do give Feedbacks please :)
Devlog #4 This Part was all about making Navigation work between pages and since last time I got some feedbacks that Home and Playground VIbe Don’t match so made Playground more 3d. Here are Changes - Using react router, Made Navigation between Home and Playground and Vice versa. Used 3d Resources like Background images, Button images to make it look 3d Videogame. Added button animations like some changes images, some spins. Improved qubit adjust box. Added tooltip component so people know what buttons does what, since buttons are image based. So, I have tried to make project look 3d Glassmorphism and minimal too. check out video attached to see progress till now .
Devlog #5 :) To be very honest I forget that its 8 hours 47 minutes in hackatime and it didn’t posted devlog until I got a Notification on slack. Sooo Guys! In this part of work I had to decide a thing that should I add Visualization of Qubits or not and then I realized that’s the whole point of project [to let people easily visualize whats happening]. So thats why I have decided add Q sphere . Folder Structure First of all I realized that my project was using url images and project structure was actually messing up as files and folders were increasing, so I decided to first organise the chaos and downloading all internet 3d assets in project. [Screenshot -1]. Because without a better organization of project it would get intimidatingly hard for others to contribute. Big Endian vs Little Endian Now second part is making the Result page of Qubit execution match that 3d glassmorphism design and white browsing through IBM composer (Tool for making Circuits) I got to observe that states were actually reverse in order. Suppose you applied hadamard gate to first qubit in 2 qubit system so instead of showing Probabilities of states as |00> = 50% , |01> = 0 , |10> = 50% , |11> = 0 , it reversed for 01 and 10. So after reading on internet about this I got to know that both ways are right and just differs because order you calcuate tensors: G1 * G2 * G3.. gives you Big Endian Version which considers least qubit as important Vice versa in case of Little Endian as IBM uses. So I implemented both in project. Earlier I thought I broke a physics Law [haha.] Making Q Sphere Its for Q sphere [2nd screenshot], that’s what help you understand statevector, because we can’t imagine more than 3D, so IBM come with this method. Basically I have used react 3 fiber that helps us write Three.js in react easily, using JSX instead of js manually, and it shows 3 lines in space which represent each state in vector: Bigger the node on top, bigger its probability . Color tells phase angle from origin. More 0 probability the vector will be pointing on upper hemisphere’s top and similarly more 1 will point on bottom of lower hemisphere. I am still processing [x,y,z] coordinates of line. Q sphere now shows random plots, I have to parse state vector to correct representation, will tell you about it in next devlog after I have learnt and implemented this. Screen Restrictions Forth is more of usability, side by side you can see either, code and graph or sphere and graph , so understand better. Also I added a screen restrictor for small screens since running this project on phone won’t be possible because design clutterness (forget to add screenshot, but you can check live). So hope you liked this version, I know it’s too much of quantum but yeah like others I am also trying to understand better. At Last, don’t forget to check attachments and share your feedbacks. Also I think I would be pushing on github now before developing futher. Namaste!!!
Devlog #6 :) So Hey People, I am feeling Immensely satisfied that Q Sphere feature is Mostly done. Also the GateWiki part is also done that tells You about Gate you Clicked on Gates Tray, again to tell you can drag gates into Circuit to build and Tap to know about it . May be I also link blogs on that Later. Now about Q Sphere Part Okay , Now let me share about Making of Q Sphere Part , So earlier I was not able to visualize it, but somehow I got to Know about Spherical Coordinates which is dependent on: theta : angle of Line from Z Axis phi : angle of Line from x Axis But clicked finally after frustration of not understanding it earlier. Then I gone to Google searching to see 3d visuals and AI to understand how we calculate those angles: So - Based on hamming weights (Means how many 1s in that State, Suppose in |01> has 1 1s and 011 have 2 1s ) and total qubits which help us find theta and divide sphere into sort of rings for similar nodes/lines of same hamming weights in same ring. Then we find how we calculate phi based on total active states in each ring and slicing ring into same proportion. I don’t know why but that was a finally a kick for me :) Finally since you will plot lines and nodes on spherical surface you have to convert theta and phi to coordinates [x, y, z] which you do using polar coordinates . Then after plotting them, a major part of Q sphere is made. now as you can see on 2nd screenshot left side the Sphere shows nodes for respective State. more chances of being 0 is on upper half and more 1 chance on bottom half. Structured the folders Also I worked on code Structure to keep all algos separated: To parse stateVectors Parse the frontend data to json circuit instructions Making all q sphere data from stateVectors parsing Code to export in Qiskit. more such functions too.. So yeah that was work I did, little more things is needed to build, after that project is done. Adding some multi qubit gates is next important thing now. I would be pushing on Github this Version and Vercel too now. Go check it out. Namaste!!!
Cirqmon Devlog #7 So, I am posting this Devlog after interval of Almost 20 days since last Posted. Why delay? During this time I learnt a Lot about Quantum computing. Infact, I was planning to ship the Project with Single qubit gates only, but after I joined Qiskit Global Summer School, then I realised that main game in Quantum computing is about entanglement, that comes with multi Qubit gates like CX, CZ, SWAP etc. The Media attached is Demo is of a GHZ circuit is made by combination of H gate and CNOT gates. Basically a GHZ state is larger version of Bell state. For N qubits, only two possible states shows Up with equal probability i.e 1/root2 (000…n + 111…n). So here is What I made Changes and How : 1) 2 Qubit Gates Implementation - So Earlier Version was for Only 1 Qubit Gates, and it used Tensor product. Where it used to tensor Each step and then Multiply each step to StateVector in successive manner. But for 2 Qubit gates, tensor method gets problematic because multi qubit gates need to have dependence on other qubits too, meanwhile tensor assumes every gate on that step is independent and it builds large matrix. This loses dependence and relation as demanded by multi qubit gates. So then I got to know of approach called Embedding or Inflation where we first create Temporary matrix of 2^n rows and 2^n Columns with each entry initially as 0, then we start looping through columns of that Matrix (which represent possibility, like iteration for 0 is actually 00 in binary) and then, matching it with rows and columns in Gate matrix, after that we force the bit in Temporary Matrix’s respective column and row to align with what Gate’s matrix bit has? Either 0 or 1. Finally we get Result of application in that Temporary matrix which we multiply with StateVector later on. That’s how This Inflation Approach works. 2) Applied Phase angle Indicator Now, Quantum State’s node’s color in Q sphere shows its phase Angle, which can be from PI to -PI, calculated using formula tan2a(y,x) , then we constraint it from 0 to 2PI, later convert to degrees, then feeding that value as HUE value in HSL colour format keeping lightness as 50% and Saturation 100% and then it corresponds to Phase Angle with color that degree, like 0deg is red, 90deg is green etc. So this was Major Changes I did along with some Style changes and Minor error fixing that appeared during changing the Simulator’s Approach. And to be very Honest at when I started to Write code for 2 qubit Gates, I earlier thought I would Do something that I dont have to change Simulator, but those were still just making me cry. So finally I gone to AI to learn and for almost 2 days new experiments were going out of head and that way almost I wasted Hours and then to experiment more and Stop Tracking Hackatime since I knew It would track more hours for Experiments too, So I coded in Cursor (Without Any AI, Just as Other Editor) Untracked. At the End it worked :) Now Finally Majority part is Done, after few More Edits, Will Ship it soon!
Cirqmon #Devlog 8 Actually I was telling my friend about project, and I realized that the Project should have better readme that tells about features, Examples, and Tour. Also added HSL wheel in Q sphere so People can Use it as a reference. Initially its faded, you hover it and it gets Visible. Also the Latest version is now Live with multi qubit gates.
Cirqmon #Devlog 9 This version is more of testing, I thought that I should write blogs and use examples using Cirqmon, So Written 2 blogs on Quantum computing for Beginners and Deutsch Joza algorithm. While writing it I thought I should Show them on Cirqmon Hompage too, earlier I thought I would replace blogs part in Homepage with Just a medium link of mine, but later when I read on internet that medium allows to see RSS version of Blogs so I parsed RSS to JSON and fetched Blogs related Quantum Computing. Along with it, made Qubits limits to 8 and steps to 24 and made a centralized Config file to control parameters from there. Added a Toggle so People can switch indentation of Qubit states either Big endian or Little Endian. Updated Homepage button with Pikachu Button I found while explore on UI verse, also added link to Readme guide. Now After writing Blogs I am getting surge of confidence inside that I understood Quantum Computing more Better. One of topics I am curious about is Cybersecurity and one of Algorithm that challenges classical Approaches like RSA is Shor’s Algorithm so next I am going to explore it, Also along with all these, I have updated Some images in readme too and going to Push updates, so do Share Feedbacks.
Cirqmon Devlog #10 Every time I think My project is ready to ship I find something missing and then it gets delayed. After I finished the blog on Deutsch Jozsa algorithm the project worked, as it needed only Single and Double qubit gate. When I started writing about Grover’s algorithm I realized the need of Three Qubit gate too as it needed CCZ gate to flip the phase to achieve 111 State. So I had to fix that. Here is what I did: Firstly as I told earlier I added the 3 Qubit gate feature, the underlying simulator code is working as old Inflating the Matrix approach, I only had to make it work for 3 Qubit gates. Secondly once I was on huddle where we were discussing about Boba bash, I presented the project to people and some said like ’it looks like too stuffed or some said it looked vibe coded. So I thought its a good feedback to work on. Then I improvised the Homepage so it feels like Apple like minimal theme while maintaining game feel. I also added the Background video instead of static image. Thirdly the blog page was pending so I made blog page with similar theme as I updated along with a option to search among the medium posts. So this was what I updated in this Version and now I needs that code review and matching the theme on Playground too. Just Hope I don’t get stuck this time and wrap it up. Thanks for Reading!
Cirqmon Devlog #11 So Guys, I have finally finalized the Cirqmon Playground UI. I replaced the old glassmorphism theme with a rougher, more irregular visual style. Earlier I got feedback that, the old layout felt cluttered because the quantum gates were spread far apart and Due to Space Background and glassmorphism, it looked like Vibe coded. I have now grouped all the gates together in one place to make the interface cleaner and easier to navigate. Here Is what I changed: Removed the Home button. Clicking the Cirqmon logo now takes gets back to the home page. Updated Playground icons with Animal GIFs to give it more lively and engaging appearance. As mentioned above, reduced the use of glassmorphism to due to flickering issues and implemented like hand drawn solid color based UI. Attaching a video Snapshot so you can see changes made. also, The README is the only major task left. Once that’s finished, I’ll be ready to ship the project!
Cirqmon Devlog #12 So I guess it’s final Devlog. Here firstly I updated Readme with new UI based snapshots. Made custom Alert box so it matches the theme instead of browser native alert box. Fixed bug in which earlier the gates were being added in circuit without checking if that Block is being used by other gate and its corresponding qubits. I hope if I don’t get a new problem to fix I will ship it;
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Cirqmon is a quantum computing circuit builder on web and It’s idea was like when I used to go on tools like IBM’s or other quantum circuit simulators they used to feel like so dry and academic, So I thought why don’t I make one that’s colorful, looks like game because I guess learning deep tech should not mean that you lose colors. Earlier I thought I would just build UI layer on top of Qiskit via Python API, then I thought what will I learn and from a quite a long time I wanted to build something that involves maths and physics so i thought I should build whole thing by myself. The whole thing was Actually a bit challenging on understanding how Q spheres or Tensors or how bitwise calculations work, aligning it will a Good UI theme, So I just learned and build. sometimes I thought How will i finish or how will I map that understanding into code But I guess AI as a Teacher helped me a lot. For Others to try it you should know about Quantum Gates, read the Readme once and I guess you will understand the project....
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I worked on the Eli Site today and refined the personal homepage structure. I improved the layout and content so the site better presents my interests, projects, and journey. Next I will continue polishing the design and adding more useful sections.
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I refined the Eli Site homepage structure and content to better present my interests, projects, and journey. I focused on improving the layout and making the site easier to explore....
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[{"post_id": 71441, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71441, "ts": "2026-09-20T20:27:48Z", "hours": 4.6844, "text": "moving the zif connector and OnShape issues we’re not sqishing the cable anymore Soooo i realised, that when assembling the whole thing, the fpc connector would only have like 1,5mm of space under the panel and that is WAAAY to little for it to not break so i had to lay it flat on the pcb and move the zif connector behind the mcu pins. time for some bad news When i tried to import the new board design into onshape for assembly, it spewed out an error that the step file coud not be translated. I thought to myself - fine just try again. Same thing happened so i started troubleshooting: -gaps in edge-cuts? No -corrupted models? Nope -weird design? Nu uh, tried to import a plain rectangle and nothing changed. -Kicad issues? Wrong, dropped a 3d model from a website, still couldn’t translate The worst thing about it was that it wasn’t just the .step format that could not be translated by onshape. I tried stl, 3mf, gbl - the result was still the same. I ran out of ideas so i decided to switch to a different cad program (onshape failed to export the existing models too, so my work there is unaccesable now. Thanks ig) and face my worst fear - Autodesk Fusion. I hate this software for the dephts of my pure soul. this program is REALLY overengineered for me and my skills and all the tools, mechanics and functions are too complicated for me to handle and end up working against me and themselves. I had to redo all of the plates inside a program which I despise. I was so frustrated i forgot to log some hours. After a long work session I managed to finish them. You can see the results of my hard work below. Oh and we hit the 20 hour mark with this one!"}, {"post_id": 68878, "ts": "2026-09-15T22:51:46Z", "hours": 4.3347, "text": "PCBA IS TOO EXPENSIVE I looked over the pcb assembly costs and boy were they high. So high in fact, that it exceeds the max funding for the tier hayai falls into. to reduce assembly costs, i decided to use a microcontroller module instead of the chip. I used a rp2350 zero from waveshare and rerouted the whole board (and also expanded the borders a bit). Im a bit frustrated about the whole thing bescause the project was like 99% ready to submit and now i gotta do so many things all over again but it is what it is."}, {"post_id": 65642, "ts": "2026-09-10T22:16:19Z", "hours": 0.9992, "text": "Added mounting holes i decided on a system where 4 holes will be occupied by screws attached from both sides to a female to female spacer, and the other 4 by dowel pins to prevent the plates from wobbling sideways. i’ll adjust the hole sizes later when im ordering exact pins and screws"}, {"post_id": 64466, "ts": "2026-09-08T21:37:56Z", "hours": 1.2303, "text": "Case plates finished! And with that, the whole project, i think. I took inspiration for the casing method from the sayo device with the pcb “sandwitched” between these plates. mine will be made from acrylic and im still thinking about priting some designs on top of the top plate and maybe making the bottom plate transparent but we’ll think about that later. Only thing left is some double checks, finishing up the repository and i think we’re ready to submit! (btw i never told you but Hayai means swift in japanese :>)"}, {"post_id": 57711, "ts": "2026-08-29T23:21:47Z", "hours": 3.5, "text": "PC crashed, lost my work :C so unfortunaly my pc crashed and i lost almost all work on the pcb, wchich was weird bescause i could have sworn i’ve been saving my progress regurarly. But we don’t cry over spilled milk do we? I started over and made the pcb again it was easier as i just needed to redo it from memory. still have some silkscreen art to do tho."}, {"post_id": 56785, "ts": "2026-08-28T18:05:42Z", "hours": 2.5, "text": "I fancy an upgrade, so lets start over After some thought, i decided to upgrade the regular mechanical switches to hall effect magnetic ones. That of course requires them to be hooked up to analog pins. But I already wired everything and stuff and the adc pins are on the opposite side of the board so it would really be a mess dragging them all the way so i decided to start over and redo the pcb. I also made a custom footprint for the switches i wanna use (the gateron magnetic jade Air HE’s)."}, {"post_id": 52974, "ts": "2026-08-23T10:57:52Z", "hours": 6.5361, "text": "Schematic and initial pcb design After some trial, error and deviously long time looking for the right ips panel (asking guys on reddit came in handy as always) I completed the schematic and the initial pcb design. As for the parts i suppose they will remain unchanged but im sure the arrangement of them on the board will as i move on to designing the case for it, especially the ips panel bescause i just put it somewhere in the middle without a care in the world :P. I had to make my own footprint and symbol for the 8pin 0,5mm pich ZIF connector (i did not find any online :cc ) but at least now i know how to make these right? Arranging everything on the board is fairly easy given the space i have. Seriously - running a straight trace across the whole board has never been more refreshing after doing a pi pico devboard project!"}]...
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Schematic and initial pcb design After some trial, error and deviously long time looking for the right ips panel (asking guys on reddit came in handy as always) I completed the schematic and the initial pcb design. As for the parts i suppose they will remain unchanged but im sure the arrangement of them on the board will as i move on to designing the case for it, especially the ips panel bescause i just put it somewhere in the middle without a care in the world :P. I had to make my own footprint and symbol for the 8pin 0,5mm pich ZIF connector (i did not find any online :cc ) but at least now i know how to make these right? Arranging everything on the board is fairly easy given the space i have. Seriously - running a straight trace across the whole board has never been more refreshing after doing a pi pico devboard project!
I fancy an upgrade, so lets start over After some thought, i decided to upgrade the regular mechanical switches to hall effect magnetic ones. That of course requires them to be hooked up to analog pins. But I already wired everything and stuff and the adc pins are on the opposite side of the board so it would really be a mess dragging them all the way so i decided to start over and redo the pcb. I also made a custom footprint for the switches i wanna use (the gateron magnetic jade Air HE’s).
PC crashed, lost my work :C so unfortunaly my pc crashed and i lost almost all work on the pcb, wchich was weird bescause i could have sworn i’ve been saving my progress regurarly. But we don’t cry over spilled milk do we? I started over and made the pcb again it was easier as i just needed to redo it from memory. still have some silkscreen art to do tho.
Case plates finished! And with that, the whole project, i think. I took inspiration for the casing method from the sayo device with the pcb “sandwitched” between these plates. mine will be made from acrylic and im still thinking about priting some designs on top of the top plate and maybe making the bottom plate transparent but we’ll think about that later. Only thing left is some double checks, finishing up the repository and i think we’re ready to submit! (btw i never told you but Hayai means swift in japanese :>)
Added mounting holes i decided on a system where 4 holes will be occupied by screws attached from both sides to a female to female spacer, and the other 4 by dowel pins to prevent the plates from wobbling sideways. i’ll adjust the hole sizes later when im ordering exact pins and screws
PCBA IS TOO EXPENSIVE I looked over the pcb assembly costs and boy were they high. So high in fact, that it exceeds the max funding for the tier hayai falls into. to reduce assembly costs, i decided to use a microcontroller module instead of the chip. I used a rp2350 zero from waveshare and rerouted the whole board (and also expanded the borders a bit). Im a bit frustrated about the whole thing bescause the project was like 99% ready to submit and now i gotta do so many things all over again but it is what it is.
moving the zif connector and OnShape issues we’re not sqishing the cable anymore Soooo i realised, that when assembling the whole thing, the fpc connector would only have like 1,5mm of space under the panel and that is WAAAY to little for it to not break so i had to lay it flat on the pcb and move the zif connector behind the mcu pins. time for some bad news When i tried to import the new board design into onshape for assembly, it spewed out an error that the step file coud not be translated. I thought to myself - fine just try again. Same thing happened so i started troubleshooting: -gaps in edge-cuts? No -corrupted models? Nope -weird design? Nu uh, tried to import a plain rectangle and nothing changed. -Kicad issues? Wrong, dropped a 3d model from a website, still couldn’t translate The worst thing about it was that it wasn’t just the .step format that could not be translated by onshape. I tried stl, 3mf, gbl - the result was still the same. I ran out of ideas so i decided to switch to a different cad program (onshape failed to export the existing models too, so my work there is unaccesable now. Thanks ig) and face my worst fear - Autodesk Fusion. I hate this software for the dephts of my pure soul. this program is REALLY overengineered for me and my skills and all the tools, mechanics and functions are too complicated for me to handle and end up working against me and themselves. I had to redo all of the plates inside a program which I despise. I was so frustrated i forgot to log some hours. After a long work session I managed to finish them. You can see the results of my hard work below. Oh and we hit the 20 hour mark with this one!...
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Macropad by @deshnaarun | Stardance
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Title: Macropad by @deshnaarun | Stardance
Devlog Title: Macropad by @deshnaarun | Stardance
Devlogs:
I’ve been working on this macropad project over the summer where I had already finished up the case design and the pcb design. Today I focused on setting up the firmware for my simple macropad which consists of 4 switches, a rotary encorder and an OLED display where I mapped each component to its correct pin by exporting net list from kicad schematics and after troubleshooting a couple of errors, I was able to successfully compile the firmware...
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ONE TAB by @Devadutt | Stardance
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[{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-0 [{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-09-20T20:20:19Z", "hours": 6.0, "multiplier": null, "payout": 0, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "I build a Website with google search bar and hyperlinks to some of my favorites sites. The hardest part was setting up the workflow. I messed it up a couple time I misspelled the depoly.yml file and so on. I am happy I made something like this. Thank YOu", "repo": "https://github.com/Devadutt-11/ONE-TAB", "demo": "https://devadutt-11.github.io/ONE-TAB/"}]...
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[{"post_id": 71432, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71432, "ts": "2026-09-20T20:15:00Z", "hours": 1.2419, "text": "completed …..!"}, {"post_id": 71362, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:06:39Z", "hours": 2.1028, "text": "Done some designing and added few hyperlink"}, {"post_id": 70781, "ts": "2026-09-19T19:10:19Z", "hours": 2.3478, "text": "I completed my guide almost correctly.I am looking forward for my next part of the project…!"}]...
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Title: ONE TAB by @Devadutt | Stardance
Devlogs:
Title: ONE TAB by @Devadutt | Stardance
Devlogs:
I completed my guide almost correctly.I am looking forward for my next part of the project…!
Done some designing and added few hyperlink
completed …..!
Ships:
I build a Website with google search bar and hyperlinks to some of my favorites sites. The hardest part was setting up the workflow. I messed it up a couple time I misspelled the depoly.yml file and so on. I am happy I made something like this. Thank YOu...
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Zenith V model rocket by @alexpleson49 | Stardance
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[{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-0 [{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-09-25T23:18:56Z", "hours": 19.0, "multiplier": null, "payout": 0, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "hello. this is the failure of the Zenith V model rocket. the rocket launch earlier today ended in a failure with the rocket violently veering of course due to a faulty engine stabilizer resulting in a fiery crash. I am shipping it as is because i do not have the ability for another launch. although i have only logged 20 hours i have undoubtably spend over 100 which makes this a very sad loss. Thank you for taking the time to read this regardless what you choose to rate it. Here i will end it off with the launch and my favourite picture from the process, again thank you.", "repo": "https://github.com/zanderman106/Zenith-V-model-rocket-flight-computer-software", "demo": ""}]...
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[{"post_id": 71425, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71425, "ts": "2026-09-20T19:57:12Z", "hours": 1.935, "text": "finished wiring the flight computer, uploaded the code to the ground station, and prepped the flight computer for the code and launch."}, {"post_id": 69443, "ts": "2026-09-17T02:04:41Z", "hours": 2.1664, "text": "a longer work period here, i completely soldered the ground station and begun to solder the flight computer (sorry about the image quality it was taken form my laptop =) )"}, {"post_id": 38009, "ts": "2026-07-31T04:04:30Z", "hours": 0.9342, "text": "nothing too exciting today, just figuring out some random things if anyone has any questions about the rocket/project please ask!"}, {"post_id": 37390, "ts": "2026-07-30T02:20:04Z", "hours": 1.8169, "text": "finalized the designs for the flight computer and LoRa receiver, the final design is to have GPS in the flight computer and have all of the info transmitted rather than stored. the information will be received by a module that plugs into the USB port on my laptop so that it can by interpreted and displayed in real time. the information will include: altitude, barometric pressure, temperature, and a video feed will be saved to an onboard SD card."}, {"post_id": 36132, "ts": "2026-07-28T00:47:52Z", "hours": 0.4503, "text": "finalized flight computer components, and found launch site candidates."}, {"post_id": 21247, "ts": "2026-07-03T02:42:07Z", "hours": 4.1219, "text": "i did a lot and kind of forgot to devlog, so i finalized connection rings, made the nosecone design, and begun to work on the PCB for the flight computer"}, {"post_id": 17347, "ts": "2026-06-28T03:04:11Z", "hours": 1.2508, "text": "the first parts of the rocket have been finalized, printed, and assembled. The structure of the main body is now ready for testing."}, {"post_id": 16673, "ts": "2026-06-27T03:21:49Z", "hours": 1.5669, "text": "Parachute bay and main body tube almost complete, this is an image of a 3D model for the parachute bay and main body tube, all that needs to be done on these is adding strength via interior support bars."}, {"post_id": 12836, "ts": "2026-06-21T00:34:45Z", "hours": 5.3375, "text": "The final version of the Zenith V booster stage is complete. This is the version that will launch the rocket about 2000 ft before the sustainer stage activates and this stage falls back to the ground."}, {"post_id": 11976, "ts": "2026-06-19T15:35:47Z", "hours": 0.5003, "text": "now printing the final version of the main booster stage for the Zenith V"}, {"post_id": 11956, "ts": "2026-06-19T14:48:17Z", "hours": 0.3492, "text": "Zenith V booster stage test model –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––This is a test model for the booster stage of my zenith V model rocket, the booster stage will house 2 Estes E 12 0 motors."}]...
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Title: Zenith V model rocket by @alexpleson49 | St Title: Zenith V model rocket by @alexpleson49 | Stardance
Devlogs:
Zenith V booster stage test model –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––This is a test model for the booster stage of my zenith V model rocket, the booster stage will house 2 Estes E 12 0 motors.
now printing the final version of the main booster stage for the Zenith V
The final version of the Zenith V booster stage is complete. This is the version that will launch the rocket about 2000 ft before the sustainer stage activates and this stage falls back to the ground.
Parachute bay and main body tube almost complete, this is an image of a 3D model for the parachute bay and main body tube, all that needs to be done on these is adding strength via interior support bars.
the first parts of the rocket have been finalized, printed, and assembled. The structure of the main body is now ready for testing.
i did a lot and kind of forgot to devlog, so i finalized connection rings, made the nosecone design, and begun to work on the PCB for the flight computer
finalized flight computer components, and found launch site candidates.
finalized the designs for the flight computer and LoRa receiver, the final design is to have GPS in the flight computer and have all of the info transmitted rather than stored. the information will be received by a module that plugs into the USB port on my laptop so that it can by interpreted and displayed in real time. the information will include: altitude, barometric pressure, temperature, and a video feed will be saved to an onboard SD card.
nothing too exciting today, just figuring out some random things if anyone has any questions about the rocket/project please ask!
a longer work period here, i completely soldered the ground station and begun to solder the flight computer (sorry about the image quality it was taken form my laptop =) )
finished wiring the flight computer, uploaded the code to the ground station, and prepped the flight computer for the code and launch.
Ships:
hello. this is the failure of the Zenith V model rocket. the rocket launch earlier today ended in a failure with the rocket violently veering of course due to a faulty engine stabilizer resulting in a fiery crash. I am shipping it as is because i do not have the ability for another launch. although i have only logged 20 hours i have undoubtably spend over 100 which makes this a very sad loss. Thank you for taking the time to read this regardless what you choose to rate it. Here i will end it off with the launch and my favourite picture from the process, again thank you....
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Eve by @Light | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71422, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71422, "ts": "2026-09-20T19:52:09Z", "hours": 8.8461, "text": "DEVLOG 36 - Black Hole! Hi Stardance! Intro I’ve been working really hard lately, and I think I’ve reached a milestone with Eve that I honestly never expected to hit. The project is finally complete; now I just need to click that nice button to ship it. I’ve spent this time working on the README, improving the documentation, fixing bugs, and building a demo using Eve. Eve Demo The demo is a gravity simulation featuring hundreds of thousands of entities orbiting a black hole. You can tweak various parameters—such as time, the black hole’s gravitational pull, lighting, colors, meshes, and much more. If you’d like to test it out, you can find it in the GitHub releases; there’s a ready-to-use .exe, or the source code if you’re on Linux—or if you simply want to understand how Eve works or make some modifications yourself. Problems Encountered While building the demo, I ran into—and have since resolved—some very frustrating bugs, such as memory corruption in the ECS caused by the continuous creation and destruction of entities and their components. I also added UI text support and implemented the ability to register “stages” belonging to classes or structs that can be called by the engine."}, {"post_id": 70544, "ts": "2026-09-19T10:27:28Z", "hours": 8.0992, "text": "DEVLOG 35 - Documentation Hi Stardance! Intro I’ve finally finished writing the documentation for Eve—a rather tedious and repetitive process, but a necessary one. How The Docs Is Structured: Every part of the engine is documented; inside the docs folder, you’ll find instructions on how to launch the engine, along with subfolders for each component—graphics, input, window management, and so on. Next Last Steps: I still need to create the README and tidy up a few things in the project, as well as write instructions on how to configure Eve for use on one’s own PC… But after a whole summer, I’m finally close to shipping!"}, {"post_id": 69366, "ts": "2026-09-16T22:11:41Z", "hours": 2.8144, "text": "DEVLOG 34 - Icon, Windows & More Hi Stardance! Intro The release is getting close, so I’m tidying up a few final details; I’ve finally turned my attention to a slightly more relaxed and lighthearted part of the project. Engine Settings I added a method to start the engine that accepts configuration settings for how the app runs. You can also choose whether or not to enable VSync at runtime. Window Class I added a window management class that allows for various operations, such as toggling fullscreen mode and manually changing the resolution, position, title, etc. I also included a method to set the window icon using a PNG image. Eve’s Icon I also spent some time on Canva trying to create an icon—a logo—for Eve. After several attempts, I settled on the one in the attachment."}, {"post_id": 68288, "ts": "2026-09-14T21:13:02Z", "hours": 4.0392, "text": "DEVLOG 33 - Meshes & Fixes Hi Stardance! Intro We’re getting closer to the release build of Eve! I have to say that with this devlog, the engine is practically finished and ready for shipping; I just need to tweak a few final details and we’re all set… Meshes: In this devlog, I worked on the mesh system—fleshing it out and making it functional—and added standard meshes to Eve: a cube, a UV sphere, an icosphere, a plane, and a quad. Some Bugs Fixed While implementing this, the program kept crashing for no apparent reason; after two hours of debugging, I found the error in the Render Graph—caused by the order of Eve’s internal passes—which is now fixed. Internal Shaders Organization I also embedded the engine’s internal shaders directly into the executable, so there’s no need to remember to include them alongside the executable when creating an app. The video shows the same UI as the previous devlog—featuring controls for color, rotation, cube position, and direct light direction—but this time, you can change the meshes of the “thousand-odd” cubes at runtime using the standard Eve meshes listed above, via a simple UI dropdown menu."}, {"post_id": 67640, "ts": "2026-09-13T19:52:38Z", "hours": 7.8861, "text": "DEVLOG 32 - UI Support Hi Stardance, Intro I’ve been working on the UI lately, as I wanted to give the user a way to interact with the engine beyond just mouse and keyboard input. The UI in Eve I opted for Dear ImGui and created a lightweight wrapper that allows it to run within Eve. I stripped away some of the boilerplate code associated with the standard Begin and End calls, making it slightly simpler and safer to use than raw ImGui. I also added support for dockable windows. The video shows a scene with 1,000 cubes; thanks to the UI, you can modify their color, position, and rotation. You can also change the direction of the direct light. The code required by this UI is just five lines."}, {"post_id": 65309, "ts": "2026-09-10T11:36:28Z", "hours": 0.2975, "text": "DEVLOG 31 - It’s not my fault! Hi Stardance! Unlike the other devlogs, this one is very quick and simple. A Little Recap In devlog 29, I encountered some issues with RenderDoc, even though the app kept running fine and caused no problems outside of RenderDoc itself. What I Did After doing some online research, I discovered that RenderDoc has issues with AMD drivers, which can cause the app to crash. So, I decided to try AMD’s Radeon Developer Tools (a profiler similar to RenderDoc, designed specifically for AMD GPUs). No errors were reported and everything works perfectly, so the problem most likely lies in how AMD drivers interface with RenderDoc."}, {"post_id": 64811, "ts": "2026-09-09T14:20:04Z", "hours": 5.6439, "text": "DEVLOG 30 - Compute Shaders Hi Stardance! Intro I’ve finally implemented compute shaders—as the title suggests—alongside conducting some tests and reorganizing the project. Compute Shader Support I’ve added support for compute shaders, meaning they can now be used just like any other type of pass, whether graphics or transfer. Optimizations I’ve also utilized compute shaders internally within the engine to speed up matrix calculations; here are the results: With 100,000 entities using instanced rendering, I’m getting 800 FPS, up from the previous 250. With 1,000,000 entities using instanced rendering, I’m getting around 90 FPS, up from the previous 30. With 100,000 entities using independent draw calls, I’m getting around 90 FPS, up from the previous 30. I’d say the results speak for themselves, and I’m quite happy with these optimizations. As mentioned in the previous devlog, testing was performed on my PC, which is equipped with a Ryzen 5 5600X and an RX 6600. Swapchain & CMake I also made slight modifications to the swapchain recreation code to make it faster and reduce stuttering. Finally, I tidied up the CMakeLists file to make it more organized and prepare for the release. The video shows a scene with 1M entities rendered in real-time using instanced draw call at 90 FPS"}, {"post_id": 63615, "ts": "2026-09-07T15:19:57Z", "hours": 8.0778, "text": "DEVLOG 29 - 1M Entities! Hi Stardance! Intro Since the last day, I’ve been working alone and have run into several issues… Most of them have been resolved. Some Tests So I started running some tests to check the speed of my new rendering system, and with 100,000 entities drawn to the screen with a single draw call, I was getting 30 FPS. After parallelizing the code a bit and reducing the copies, the results are now better: 100,000 entities with single draw calls get 50-60 FPS. 100,000 entities with a single instanced draw call get 230-250 FPS. 1,000,000 entities with a single instanced draw call get 30 FPS. What Need To Be Optimized Actually, I could optimize even more and double these FPS, but the current problem is that I’m calculating the matrices on the CPU side, so I’m doing a lot of calculations that currently take up a good portion of the necessary CPU time, about 50%. The idea would be to move all the work to the GPU in the future with compute shaders, thus significantly reducing the CPU load. I’ll see if I can do this… Maybe in a while, when I add full support for compute shaders. (I have a Ryzen 5 5600 X and an RX 6600) Rendering System Time: Not counting the matrices, the rendering cycle along with the Render Graph takes about 2-2.5 ms, almost all of which is spent on the Render Graph. I have also fixed some problems with Swapchain Recreation when the window is minimized. Problems With RenderDoc Five of these eight hours have been pure frustration, as I don’t understand why, but the app crashes on RenderDoc. Normally, on my PC it starts and works, but on RenderDoc it crashes… I’ve tried every way to understand the problem, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to. I’ll also test on other PCs to better understand the problem. Unfortunately, I don’t have time on my side, so I’ve had to put the issue aside for now…"}, {"post_id": 61817, "ts": "2026-09-04T22:10:27Z", "hours": 10.2261, "text": "DEVLOG 28 - New Render System Hi Stardance! Intro I think this devlog is consistent with the next one I’m working on, since the work I’ve done in the last few hours isn’t quite finished, as there are still some bugs to resolve… Why a new render system? So far, I’ve been working on improving Eve’s rendering system. Instead of having to manually create buffers and the like, Eve has a completely automated system similar to the one used by Unity. For example, when you try to draw an object, you need things like object transformation matrices. If you then need more data, the limited size of push constants is no longer enough. Per Instance Params Eve, therefore, with its new rendering system, revolutionizes the way we write code, reduces bugs, and simplifies it. For each draw call sent to the GPU, the engine sends a buffer called InstanceParams to the GPU, which contains, for each drawing instance, its model matrix and its inverse. These matrices can then be retrieved using simple, custom functions ready for use in the shader. Per Render View Data For camera data, the process is similar. For each RenderView object, Eve allocates these objects on the GPU in a contiguous buffer from which the view, perspective, VP, and other matrices can be accessed. Custom Draw Info Data If you want to send custom data to the shader, each drawing function offers a pointer called DrawInfo that allows you to send data to the shader, which can then be accessed. If set to null, the shader will not send anything. GLM & A Flycam I also created a flycam and deprecated the Eve math package to use the glm one. Honestly, I want to focus on Eve and not the math, which is why I chose this option. Next Step: I still have some bugs to fix regarding making more than one draw call, but I’m working on it."}, {"post_id": 59920, "ts": "2026-09-01T23:02:30Z", "hours": 7.4931, "text": "DEVLOG 27 - Material System Intro After some code rewrites, such as the separation between shaders and materials, the materials system now works. It’s very similar to how it works in Unity. I’ve figured out how to set things like material properties (floats, integers, vectors, etc.) directly from C++ using their names, without manually binding code. How Vulkan Handle All Of This? In Vulkan, you can’t set a shader parameter directly with a name. You need to create a buffer on the GPU, specifically a UBO, typically used for materials, bind it using a descriptor, and then bind it on the CPU. All of this is hidden by Eve, making the code easier and faster to write. What It Does? Basically, once the shader is compiled, it’s analyzed and checked for a struct called Properties. If it exists, this struct will be used for the material properties. Each field within it will be settable directly from the CPU using its name. Eve, now knowing the size of the struct and the field offsets, creates a buffer for the materials (actually, one for each frame in flight) and uses it to write everything a material might need, thus allowing for very simple parameter setting. How To Use It: The material provides an ID via the GetPropertyUBOId function, which must always be retrieved at each frame since it is not the same from frame to frame. This ID can be sent to the shader via push constant, which then allows access to the material’s property UBO, which contains all the values set on the CPU side. A simple cube rotating on itself using the new Material System and simple direct lighting"}, {"post_id": 58517, "ts": "2026-08-30T23:07:29Z", "hours": 4.8986, "text": "DEVLOG 26 - Input System Hi Stardance! The New Input System Since I couldn’t interact much with the graphics engine at the moment, I chose to create an Input System that currently only supports keyboard and mouse. It has methods like IsKeyDown(...) , GetMouseState(...) , IsMouseUp(...) , and similar ones. It’s quite simple, but it allows you to interact with the world, for example by creating a camera or a moving player. The Cube For fun and to test a bit, I tried creating a scene with a slightly rotated cube with direct light, obviously using my Render Graph, which allows you to do all this in about 150 lines of code (CPU side) instead of having to manually write barriers, configure passes, and many other repetitive tasks. I’m still using glm for matrix math, but I’m trying to reach a more stable level with the Eve package."}, {"post_id": 57455, "ts": "2026-08-29T16:33:40Z", "hours": 7.1736, "text": "DEVLOG 25 - Eve is “Multi PC” Hi everyone! What’s changed since last time? More Device Supported As promised, Eve now uses Vulkan 1.2, so it can be used on multiple devices. Obviously, the device requires that, in addition to supporting Vulkan 1.2, it also supports some extensions that became core in Vulkan 1.3. Tests On Other PCs I then tried running the app on the only PC I had at home, but it crashed. I then tried updating the graphics driver, but that didn’t help; unfortunately, that PC is too old. I then asked a friend of mine to test the app. After fixing some issues, it started, but it would crash instantly. After hours of debugging, I found the problem: the problem was in resource allocation within the Render Graph, which only occurred with integrated GPUs (my heap selection algorithm for integrated GPUs was wrong). It’s now fixed. I also added my checks for failed Vulkan or VMA calls in places where they were missing, so now everything should work properly. Math Packet In Eve I also added a small mathematical component to Eve, including Vector2,3,4 ; Vector2Int,3Int,4Int ; Quaternion ; and Matrix4x4 . I must say that quaternions were difficult to understand at first, but once you understand how they work, it’s very easy to visualize them in your head. The first attachment shows Eve running on the PC of this friend of mine, whom I thank so much for his help, and the second image shows Eve running on my PC."}, {"post_id": 55554, "ts": "2026-08-27T14:10:22Z", "hours": 4.5942, "text": "DEVLOG 24 - Error Manager, Copies & More Intro Hi Stardance! Lately, I’ve been focusing mainly on improving error handling returned by Vulkan and fixing some code here and there. New Error Manager System I’ve created a system responsible for error handling so that when an error occurs, such as a failure to allocate memory due to fragmentation or any other critical error, the app places a text file with information about the error in a folder called logs (created on the fly if it doesn’t exist). Immediately afterward, an error message is displayed on the screen explaining what happened. When the user presses the OK button, the app closes in the pop-up by calling std::abort(); . Some Test On Other PCs I tried running Eve outside of my PC on two other PCs, but since they’re a bit older, they don’t have support for Vulkan 1.4, so the app can’t be started. Swapchain Improvements The code for creating the swapchain has been improved somewhat, making it more secure and robust. New Copy Support I’ve added support for buffer and texture copy operations between resources that aren’t the same type (one transient and one persistent). Next Step: I want to make Eve a little more portable, so in the next few hours I’ll try using Vulkan 1.2, trying not to mess with the code. If necessary, I might resort to using Vulkan 1.3; I’ll see…"}, {"post_id": 54816, "ts": "2026-08-25T23:26:03Z", "hours": 3.9353, "text": "DEVLOG 23 - Instanced Draw & Some Fixes Intro Devlog time!! In the last devlog, I had some issues with instanced drawing and reading a position buffer. What Was The Problem? I worked hard, but I managed to figure out where the problem was and fix it. (The problem was due to a for loop responsible for creating the address buffers. I was saving pointers outside the for loop with structs allocated inside the for loop; therefore, the pointers were pointing to corrupted memory or nothing.) Render Graph Fixes I fixed several things in the Render Graph that could cause future problems. I added small guards within the Render Graph so that if the user does something wrong, the application doesn’t crash unexpectedly. For example, previously, if the user set a texture to display that they’d never used (never involved in a transfer operation, never used as a graphic attachment), the program would crash. With these simple guards, everything is solved. Easier Resource Usage Declaration I’ve also added the ability to easily declare textures and buffers usage in the Graphics Pass class with dedicated methods like UseBufferReadOnlyVertex(...) , UseTextureVertex(...) , and others. The image shows a grid of 20x20 quad meshes drawn with a single draw call instead of 400 using instanced draw."}, {"post_id": 54096, "ts": "2026-08-24T21:43:20Z", "hours": 10.5117, "text": "DEVLOG 22 - ECS Bugs Fixed, Graphics Files Reorganized Hi Stardance! What I Did In this dev log, I fixed some of the last bugs the ECS code, so it now works and is very efficient. I ran several tests destroying, creating, and moving entities from one archtype to another, and everything works. I then worked on the project structure of the graphics part by fixing the graphics include files. What Went Wrong These updates mentioned so far have been successful. Two hours ago, I added a method in the graphics pass responsible for instanced drawing, so I took advantage of the opportunity to create a buffer to read the instance positions to see if it worked. I still don’t know why, but it doesn’t work. The application freezes, and sometimes the driver crashes (it scared me a little… :/ ). The Validation Layers don’t report anything wrong… So I need to figure out what’s wrong and fix it. The image shows some of the methods available after fixing the folders. The methods are in the Graphics class in the include folder."}, {"post_id": 51727, "ts": "2026-08-21T15:40:39Z", "hours": 10.1514, "text": "DEVLOG 21 - ECS Refactoring Intro Over the past ten hours, I’ve worked extensively on the ECS , making it more robust, easier to use, more secure, and more efficient. What’s changed: New Way To Record Entity Commands Entity Command Pools are still used, but they’re managed not by the user but by the Entity Manager. The old CreateCommandPool() method no longer exists. Now, to execute a command on entities, you make a request to the EntityManager , which takes the command and places it in an EntityCommandPool of its choosing. The EntityCommandPool is chosen based on the SystemId provided by the engine with methods like Start, Awake, Update, etc. This reduces complexity and allows for systems that can run natively in parallel on multiple threads. Improved Efficiency Internally, the Entity Manager has improved the way to compact batches after command execution, making it simpler and faster. Instead, iterating over all batches only iterates on the entities that are no longer valid, and those slots are refilled with the components of the valid entities at the end of the last batches. Batch creation and destruction is handled automatically by the EntityManager . New Way To Query Tables The way to find tables with certain requirements has improved; the old method required registering a query and then returning a “ticket” used to access the query results. The operation is now simpler and more unified: The EntityManager is asked for all tables that meet the QueryInfo structure requirements, such as the archtype. The EntityManager checks whether the query already exists; if it doesn’t, it calculates it on the fly and returns it. Queries Updated Only When Needed Queries are updated only when tables are created/destroyed; otherwise, they remain - static and aren’t updated, saving calculations . The next step will be to verify if everything works, since I haven’t tested anything yet because I’m forced to do this devlog due to the ten-hour time limit. :/ Sorry about the picture, it’s the same, I didn’t have time to do anything else"}, {"post_id": 48967, "ts": "2026-08-17T15:28:34Z", "hours": 5.8128, "text": "DEVLOG 20 - A Better Triangle Intro Hi Stardance! This triangle was created with Render Graph . The entire process is divided into two steps: the first draws the triangle on a user-selected image, and the second takes that image, samples it, and draws it on the swapchain so the triangle can be seen on screen. Clean and Simple API The beauty of this is evident in the photo (third attachment). You only need to write a few lines of code to achieve all this compared to the complexity and number of lines of code required by Vulkan. Render Graph thus creates all the resources needed for synchronization, such as barriers , and attempts to alias memory whenever possible. It also leverages Resource Pooling , so images aren’t destroyed and recreated at every frame. Instead, if they have identical requirements, they are reused, avoiding unnecessary Vulkan calls. MSAA Deprecated MSAA images have been deprecated because, from a desktop computer perspective, they aren’t worth using because they require a lot of computational resources. To achieve anti-aliasing, it’s best to use post-processing passes that use FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing) or TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing). There are probably some bugs still present in the Render Graph despite the many already fixed; I’ll work on them."}, {"post_id": 47136, "ts": "2026-08-14T20:10:25Z", "hours": 9.8778, "text": "DEVLOG 19 - Colors! Hi Stardance! I’ve made some progress and finally drew something on the screen! Improvements on the Swapchain Pass I’ve improved the Render Graph a bit by cleaning up old methods and making all the improvements discussed in the last devlog, such as improving the rendering code for the swapchain. Normally, you would set the 2D texture to display on the screen using the RenderGraph::SetPresentTexture(); In reality, this texture isn’t displayed directly on the screen but is first sampled and copied to the swapchain, so the Render Graph adds a hidden pass for this. When this texture hasn’t been assigned to any texture, the swapchain will be colored with the clear value set to black and sent to the screen. Push Constants Supported I’ve added the ability to use Vulkan Push Constants. Push Constants are data packets that can be sent to the GPU in parallel with the drawing command. Their size is very limited, 128 bytes, but their transfer speed is extremely fast. A hardware limitation is that the offset and size parameters must be multiples of four, so I used a struct called Words32 to dictate the 32-bit size and offset, not the 8-bit one. Furthermore, internally, the engine checks the state of the previous push constant for each push constant update, so as not to make unnecessary updates and to register the push constant command only when necessary, and only partially for the relevant bytes. Shaders Improvements I improved the shader code a bit by reducing the arguments needed to create a shader, and I also unified the layout; all shaders use the same VkPipelineLayout . The Problem and The Solution When I was writing the shaders to get these things on screen, I ran into errors telling me I was assigning a buffer descriptor to Descriptor Set 0 with binding 0, even though they’re actually textures. However, in the shader, I wasn’t requesting any of this, since the vertex data was written directly into the shader. After some research, I discovered that Slang shaders were creating bindings for these arrays outside the shader. To fix this, I simply moved the arrays into the vertex shader function, marking them with const. And note that all these images/videos use the swapchain pass, so this was all just a test. Now I’ll have to try declaring a real pass with Render Graph and try to draw something, hoping everything works correctly :/"}, {"post_id": 44624, "ts": "2026-08-10T14:56:52Z", "hours": 10.0239, "text": "DEVLOG 18 - More Refactoring Hi Stardance! I don’t know what to say about this devlog, since I’ve written a lot of code for my specific implementation… I’ll try to describe what I did without being too boring. Why I refactored again? As discussed in the previous devlog, I felt the code wasn’t “nice” or at least not very tidy, and honestly, I don’t like that very much, so I rewrote the Render Graph (partially) for the third time. Now, the Render Graph only manages single-frame resources, while all multi-frame resources are managed by a separate class called TransientResourcePool, which is therefore responsible for storing the resources. The Render Graph: A single frame responsibility The Render Graph is still responsible for memory aliasing and resource pooling, of course, as well as generating barriers and inserting the draw, copy, and, in the future, compute commands. (I still need to improve the code for compiling commands into the Command Buffers a bit.) Improvement in the searching of pooled resources Now, searching for resources to reuse is even faster, since resources are divided by their composition, for example. For textures, the parameters for this division are height, depth, width, samples, etc. This allows you to immediately find a resource if it’s available. More organization is the TransientResourcePool The TransientResourcePool is also responsible for permanently destroying unused resources for several frames. I had written the destruction code within the TransientResourcePool, but I thought maybe it wasn’t its responsibility, but rather an existing class called MemoryBin. The MemoryBin class was configured to work only for persistent resources, but now it handles the destruction of persistent and transient resources. What I need to fix: There’s a small problem in the code: Normally, when you want to destroy a resource, it’s queued and usually assigned a countdown. This countdown is a number that corresponds to the maximum frames in flight and decreases by one every frame. When this number reaches zero, the resource can be destroyed. This works perfectly, but when, for example, the swapchain needs to be recreated because the window size has changed, the GPU needs to be put into idle mode. This means that all in-flight frames have finished, and therefore all resources queued for destruction can and must be destroyed immediately, otherwise they would pile up. Otherwise, I think everything is perfect. I don’t think it will take me long to implement these little tricks, so I assume and hope :/ to start writing the code to display something on the screen soon. I’ll go back to my old, dear little triangle :)"}, {"post_id": 41971, "ts": "2026-08-06T14:41:01Z", "hours": 11.1292, "text": "DEVLOG 17 - Meshes & New Architecture Into See you again, Stardance. I’ve been implementing several things lately, as the title suggests, and I think we might soon have some geometry on the screen. Mesh System I’ve been working on meshes, creating everything needed to support mesh creation, editing, and destruction. Currently, if you create a mesh, you obviously create all the necessary buffers: one for vertex positions, one for normals, one for UVs, etc. So, for example, if I load position data and the buffer doesn’t exist, a new buffer is created and a CPU-GPU upload operation is performed. However, if the buffer exists and its size is greater than the new vertex size, the buffer isn’t reallocated to a smaller size but remains the same, reducing the number of vertices used for drawing. I’m not sure how useful this option is, but I plan to add an option to specify this in the future. Image Presentation Supported I’ve also been working on how to display an image on the screen. Currently, the Render Graph has a method that, given a texture’s Transient handle, sets that texture as the image to display on the screen. Internally, the Render Graph creates a draw pass at the end of all existing passes and then samples from the presentation texture set to draw on the swapchain. The code for all this might be a little rough at the moment; I’ll improve it later. The New Architecture For a while now, I’ve felt like the code was stepping on its own toes. I had a class called MemoryRegistry that was responsible for assigning slots to resources, allocating them, and managing their lifecycle. I didn’t like this, so I decided to rewrite much of it, splitting everything into multiple classes. Now I have a class called ResourceRegistry that provides resource IDs. A class called ResourceMapper that inserts resources into their respective global descriptors. A class called ResourceTracker that manages the resource lifecycle, their last use, which stage they were in, and similar information. Until recently, the MemoryRegistry managed both persistent and transient resources, which was a mess. I’ve decided that the MemoryRegistry should only manage persistent resources, while transient resources should be managed by a class called TransientResourcePool or something similar, which should be managed by the RenderGraph. That’s exactly what I’m working on. Some Stupid Bugs I overran the timeframe because I was partially testing the new code and encountered a stupid bug that made me lose time. (I was iterating an Array starting from the last element, but I forgot to subtract one from the size of the vector assigned to the for loop index, thus causing an out-of-memory access.) I think I’ll also rewrite a good portion of the RenderGraph first to adapt it to the new architecture. Advantages These changes will make developing new features faster and less cumbersome without having to adapt to an architecture that was poorly designed from the start. I swear that after I’ve done all this, I’ll render something to the screen, assuming there are no unforeseen issues ;)"}, {"post_id": 39763, "ts": "2026-08-02T22:53:53Z", "hours": 9.9536, "text": "DEVLOG 16 - Blank Window, Draw Calls & More The last ten hours have been very productive. As the devlog title suggests, I managed to get the classic black window, completed the code for draw calls, and also accomplished many other things. Draw Calls Commands I then completed the code for making draw calls with a simple mesh, integrating all the logic into the Render Graph. If you want to send any command to the GPU—a draw call, a copy, a dispatch, or anything else—it must necessarily go through the Render Graph. This allows me to have a central entity that can manage barriers and commands in a highly optimized, precise, and secure manner. When you want to draw something, you must declare a graphics pass. This pass has methods to execute the drawing commands, but it also has methods to set things like the texture depth/stencil to use, the target texture to draw on, etc. You can also have multiple color targets, as long as they have the same resolution. Blank Window Since I haven’t seen any tangible results on screen for a while, only code, I tried displaying a black window and then initializing the engine. The new context, window, and swapchain builders all work. The Resource Mapper, the class that manages the global descriptor set, also works. Testing the other classes will require a bit more work until I’ve got all the missing pieces, but it’s almost there. Persistent Resources Support Since creating a mesh also involves creating data and sending it to the GPU via buffers, I need a way to upload data from the CPU to the GPU. Mesh buffers are persistent, not transient. Currently, in the Render Graph code, I only had support for copying and uploading transient resources. From now on, this is also available for Persistent resources, as I’ve written the same code for them as well. I also implemented barrier generation for persistent resources so that synchronization is handled internally by the Render Graph, as with transient resources. New Resource Handles Up until now, each resource has been represented as a handle corresponding to an unsigned 32-bit number. From now on, resources are represented by two unsigned 32-bit numbers: one for the previously existing identification number and a generation number. By combining both numbers, each resource is unique, thus eliminating the possibility that if a resource is destroyed and recreated with the same ID, it could be mistaken for an older resource that no longer exists. Project Cleaning I finally cleaned up the project a bit and made it a bit more organized by dividing the files into more specific subfolders."}, {"post_id": 37211, "ts": "2026-07-29T19:14:02Z", "hours": 10.0533, "text": "DEVLOG 15 - Slang & Render Graph Reorganization So, I’ve been dividing the project into folders, making everything more organized, which wasn’t the case until now. The New Shader Language: Slang I saw that there was a more modern alternative to GLSL I could use, so I chose Slang. I created the code to create it in real time, and then I also changed the architecture of the Pipeline Builder a bit (the class responsible for creating Vulkan’s Pipeline and PipelineLayout objects). Vertex Fetch, Why Did I Choose It? I’ve been thinking for a while about forcing users of the engine to use Vertex Fetch. What is it? Well, normally when using a shader, before the Vertex Shader there’s a phase called Input Assembly that, based on the triangle indices, samples vertices from the vertex buffer, allowing them to be used directly in the Vertex Shader without manual sampling. However, this means that the layout of the vertex buffer must never change; if it were to change, you’d have to create another Pipeline object and bind it. Honestly, I don’t like this limitation very much. That’s why I removed this feature and adopted Vertex Fetch, which allows you to not specify a vertex layout, thus having as few Pipeline objects as possible. Obviously, you have to manually fetch the vertex from the respective buffer in the Vertex Shader, but frankly, it’s not a huge problem. Work In Progress On The Render Graph Another thing I’m implementing is commands that can be sent to the GPU via the Render Graph. So now you can draw, make GPU-GPU copies between buffers, between textures, and even between textures and buffers. Copies currently only support Transient resources; I’ll add the functionality for Persistent resources later. The same goes for using Compute Shaders. I’ve also added the ability to upload data from the CPU to the GPU, again for transient resources. For Persistent resources, I’ll also add this functionality later. I’m still writing the code for this, so I’m not finished yet, but I’m forced to devlog for the usual 10 hours of Stardance…"}, {"post_id": 34710, "ts": "2026-07-25T17:18:03Z", "hours": 9.9128, "text": "DEVLOG 14 - I Rewrote The Memory Aliasing Algorithm Intro Unfortunately, I don’t have anything exciting to say. I’m forced to do this devlog since I’ve reached ten hours since my last devlog, so I have to publish one, otherwise my hours wouldn’t count in full. I’ll try to share what I did, the problems I encountered, and how I solved them. The Problem I might sound crazy, but after working on the Render Graph for twenty hours, I rewrote it entirely from scratch. You might ask, why? The reason I did this was Vulkan itself. I discovered that, since I’d previously relied on VMA (Vulkan Memory Allocator) to manage memory, now that I was managing memory without it, there was something I’d overlooked: a parameter called Memory Type Index. The Memory Type Index indicates where to allocate memory. There could be a Memory Type Index for the GPU’s local memory, one for the Resizable BAR, etc. So, what’s the problem if all the Render Graph resources must live exclusively in the GPU’s local memory anyway? Wouldn’t it be enough to simply add a few lines of code and everything would be solved? Unfortunately, not because this index indicates in which memory to allocate that resource, but there’s also another parameter called Memory Type Bits, which is a bitmask that indicates in which Memory Type Indexes a resource can or cannot be allocated. All resources are allocated in the same Memory Type Index, but they may have different Memory Type Bits. This means, for example, that a texture without multi-samples cannot fit in the same memory space as a texture with multi-samples. This can also happen with the aspect mask, so a color texture and a depth texture might not fit in the same place. It could also happen with the format or tiling. The same goes for buffers, but these are more flexible than textures. The Solution My Memory Aliasing algorithm was designed without taking all this into account, so I chose to rewrite a large part of the Render Graph, trying to recycle some parts. Therefore, the Aliasing algorithm now operates on “Buckets,” which are in-memory containers containing resources that can fit in the same space. Without this distinction, memory aliasing wouldn’t be possible because a resource attempting to reuse memory used by previous resources must only check among resources with the same requirements, not among all resources. Therefore, it checks per bucket, not all existing resources. This has also made the code much cleaner and more organized."}, {"post_id": 32449, "ts": "2026-07-21T17:21:23Z", "hours": 10.0289, "text": "DEVLOG 13 - Memory Aliasing Recap In the last devlog, I explained what I did and why I was creating a Render Graph. I mentioned a concept called Memory Aliasing, but I explained it briefly. I’ve been working extensively on the Render Graph these past few hours to implement the Memory Aliasing algorithm. What is Memory Aliasing? Memory Aliasing involves having two or more resources use the same portions of memory, thus sharing that memory. For example, let’s take a texture we’ll call A. This texture is used as Depth in pass 1 and read in pass 2. Another texture, called B, is used in pass 3 and pass 4 (see photo). We could allocate both resources independently, but you can clearly see that the resources don’t overlap in the passes. Texture A begins its usage cycle in pass 1 and ends in pass 2, and immediately after, in pass 3, texture B is used for the first time. What we could do is have both textures occupy the same memory space to save VRAM. This is the concept of Memory Aliasing. Obviously, since the resources share the same memory space, barriers must be created to synchronize resource access, otherwise there would be a race condition (two threads operating in parallel on the same memory space, not just for read-only operations). Resource Pooling In addition to memory aliasing, I wanted to optimize another aspect that took me some time. In Vulkan, when you want to create resources, you use vkCreateImage and vkCreateBuffer. These functions create a handle without associating physical memory with these objects. Binding occurs later, after executing the memory aliasing algorithm, which determines which memory space to assign to a resource. This means that I have to create and destroy resource handles every frame, which apparently isn’t a light operation to perform on multiple resources. So I thought that if there was a possibility, I could reuse handles from previous frames by simply comparing whether the settings of the requested handle were the same as the one to be reused and then binding the memory. The Problem and the Solution This was the idea I had, but unfortunately it’s not feasible because Vulkan doesn’t allow memory binding to a resource more than once, so this approach wouldn’t have worked. After thinking for a while about how to solve this, I decided to include in the requirements for using old handles, in addition to the texture or buffer settings, the offset and stride of how they were bound in memory. This way, if the pass structure and usage hadn’t changed significantly during the user’s setup phase, the Memory Aliasing algorithm would always produce the same results, given the deterministic nature, making this all feasible. Finally, if the resources aren’t reused for an N number of consecutive frames, they are permanently destroyed."}, {"post_id": 30667, "ts": "2026-07-18T13:14:32Z", "hours": 9.9683, "text": "DEVLOG 12 - Render Graph, Code Refactoring A Little Recap In the last devlog, I mentioned I watched the 2017 GDC conference, where they explained how the Frostbite development team had created a Render Graph. But what is a Render Graph, and what is it used for? To answer this question, we must first understand how the GPU works. The Difference: CPU & GPU First, a GPU, unlike a CPU, performs all its operations in parallel. When we write code for the CPU, we say: do this operation, then this, then that, and so on. The CPU performs its operations synchronously, in sequential order. The GPU, however, doesn’t work that way. If we tell the GPU that we want to draw three objects, we can send it three draw calls, which we’ll call A, B, and C. These draw calls are sent in order, so first A, then B, and then C. The order in which the commands are sent doesn’t correspond to the order in which they are executed, because the GPU could execute the commands in this order: C, B, A, or B, A, C, or A, C, B, and so on. This is because, while operation A might be in progress, operation B might start executing, so both commands will use the same resources and therefore run into a race condition if both operations are not read-only. The Problem From this perspective, the GPU is very powerful because it tries to stay constantly busy, eliminating dead time. However, this greatly complicates things on the synchronization side. Let’s take two operations: operation A that writes an image and operation B that reads the image. How can we be sure that the GPU executes operation A first and not B? Who can assure us that the GPU, while executing A, doesn’t have to execute B? The answer to all these questions is no one. How Graphics APIs Handle All Of This In graphics APIs like OpenGL, all of this is hidden from the programmer, so they don’t have to worry about it. But in graphics APIs like Vulkan and DirectX 12, this is the programmer’s responsibility. The programmer must write a barrier and tell the GPU not to touch the image from operation B before A has finished. For a few barriers, this is feasible, but as soon as you write more complex applications, making the code sufficiently organized, non-repetitive, and fast to develop becomes very challenging. This is why the concept of a Render Graph exists. What A Render Graph Does A Render Graph allows the programmer to specify which steps the GPU should execute, which operations resources like images and textures will perform, and in what order. The Frame Graph looks at this graph constructed by the programmer at each frame and internally understands where barriers and sometimes semaphores are needed (if we’re working with multiple queues, that’s not the case for me). Another responsibility of the Frame Graph is to internally allocate and manage resources that only exist within a single frame, called transient resources. Finally, I’m implementing Memory Aliasing. This reduces the memory used by resources: for example, if resource A is used for the last time in pass 3 and resource B for the first time in pass 4, they can share the same physical memory, thus reducing the overall memory requirement. Bonus I’ve also restructured the texture creation methods, making them simpler and allowing for fewer specifications. The before and after is a good result… The same goes for 1D and 3D textures."}, {"post_id": 28272, "ts": "2026-07-14T12:58:23Z", "hours": 10.2439, "text": "DEVLOG 11 - BDA, Pipeline, Shaders In the last devlog, I explained how I wanted to structure my bindless descriptor set. With that approach, I had a buffer for each data type. This approach works, but it’s a bit cumbersome, so I switched to using Buffer Device Addresses (BDAs). The idea behind it is: Create buffers, around VRAM, placing the buffers within VRAM memory pools. Instead of saving the physical data inside the descriptor buffer, we can only save pointers to the buffers, so I’ll have a buffer of pointers to the buffers scattered across VRAM. Since the pointers take up 8 bytes, managing the buffer is very simple, as it will be very light. So, essentially, I separate the physical data of the buffers from the shader binding logic. Rather than using namespaces to hide the internal implementation, I chose to use Hadles, which are simply numbers that identify that resource. So I could have a BufferHandle, ImageHandle, SamplerHandle, PipelineHandle, and so on. I chose not to call the structure that manages all this with names that might be reminiscent of the Vulkan API, but instead called this system Resource Mapper. At the moment, I think I’ve done something wrong with the code: Since the buffers are simply exposed via a 32-bit index, internally the buffer index corresponds to the index of the vector in which the Vulkan buffer handles and all the allocation information are allocated. I think I’ve erred in saving the buffers in vector indices that don’t match their exposed handle index outside of Eve. This causes access to incorrect buffers or buffers that don’t even exist, causing UBs or crashes. I still need to verify this issue and, if it occurs, I’ll have to fix it. Furthermore, yesterday I added all the code responsible for creating the graphics pipeline and compiling the shaders. This code is still a bit rough and needs improvement. Furthermore, since I don’t want the user to have to manage synchronization outside of the engine, I’ve been thinking about how to structure a Render Graph. I saw Frostbite’s presentation at GDC 2017 where they explained how their Render Graph works and that gave me some insights."}, {"post_id": 25895, "ts": "2026-07-10T11:55:09Z", "hours": 11.2272, "text": "DEVLOG 10 - Working On The Vulkan Wrapper For now, I’m focused on creating a wrapper for Vulkan to make it simpler and less repetitive to use. I don’t want to create a wrapper that abstracts too much, thus losing control; instead, I’m creating a fairly thin wrapper. I’m currently restructured the Application class a bit and divided some of its parts into three “modules.” I’m structuring this using the Factory Pattern. I’ve created three Builders: one for the window and SDL initialization, one for creating a Vulkan context—VulkanInstace, PhysicalDevice, LogicalDevice, and the graphics queue—and the last one for building the swapchain. I chose this approach because I consider it flexible and I don’t want everything to fit into one huge monolith; I prefer having multiple modular classes. In addition to these more or less complete builders, I’m focusing on creating a system that can allow shaders to see and manipulate the data stored in VRAM. This is usually done with DescriptorSets, which have been the standard for years. They’re more or less like pointers to objects in VRAM so shaders can access them. In reality, they’re fat pointers because they contain other information besides the address. However, this approach is good but not optimal because it introduces CPU overhead. Since the draw calls may not share the same materials and therefore require different textures, a new DescriptorSet must be bound before each draw call, which, with many draw calls, incurs CPU overhead. What I’m doing to solve this problem is looking towards a more modern and efficient approach called Bindless. Basically, instead of having multiple small DescriptorSets, you have one huge global DescriptorSet that contains all the resources used by the application. So we could have a sort of array containing all the samplers, then another containing all the textures, another containing all the buffers of a specific type, etc. Then we just need to bind this DescriptorSet at the start of rendering, which will be used for the entire rendering process, and pass indices to the shader that will tell it which resources to use from the DescriptorSet. I’m a little slow in developing all this because I’ve never used Vulkan; in fact, I’m still learning. The second reason is that Vulkan is very complex and there’s a lot of boilerplate code. I still have to finish the ECS system since I don’t yet have a centralized approach for obtaining the IDs and GenerationIds of new entities, which are verified and therefore safely managed internally by the engine. But I think I’ll do it later since I’m a little tired of fiddling with entities and want to do something different for a while."}, {"post_id": 21085, "ts": "2026-07-02T21:28:10Z", "hours": 4.3578, "text": "DEVLOG 9 - 100K Entities After the last devlog, in which I rendered 1K entities, I tried increasing the number of entities to a 15x15x15 cube, or 3375 entities, and I saw the frame rate drop unexpectedly, 25 FPS. I was wondering if this was normal or not… Apparently, it wasn’t… I tried to figure out the problem, but it wasn’t easy. I tried using a tool called RenderDoc that lets you see what’s happening on the GPU, so all the calls, data passed to the GPU, buffers, textures, etc. That information also included the time, and the GPU indicated it was taking about 16 ms, which was quite strange. I started to suspect Vulkan’s validation layers. By disabling them, I got to 30 FPS or a little higher, I don’t remember exactly. Then I disabled ASan and set the swapchain to Immediate Mode so as not to be constrained by the screen refresh rate, and I got to about 100 FPS. Then I made several CPU-level optimizations at the code level by changing the way components are obtained from batches in my ECS system, specifically limiting those operations that can be avoided in the internal component iteration loop, and I got up to 140 fps. Finally, the thing that made me open my eyes and say WOW was compiling in Release and not Debug, the fps skyrocketed to around 2300… I couldn’t believe it either… After doing all this, I rendered 100,000 entities and my fps were stable at 90… Incredible! Finally, just for the sake of curiosity, I tested 1,000,000 entities and got 9 fps, which is good because it means the system scales linearly. This is what I’ve been doing for the last two hours. Before that, I spent some time revisiting my ECS code to make it more secure. For example, many of the Table and EntityManager methods now return references and not pointers. I’ve also made the ComponentRegistry class much more efficient by storing component information in contiguous arrays instead of lists, which therefore contain non-contiguous data. Next Steps: I need to implement a way to get verified IDs from the EntityManager, since currently the IDs are only manual and non-unique. And then I’ll need to refactor the rendering code again, making it more modular, since it’s currently all in a single class."}, {"post_id": 20319, "ts": "2026-07-01T21:44:13Z", "hours": 9.6286, "text": "DEVLOG 8 - 1K Entities I implemented several things: One of these is a manager that allows systems to register their functions so they can be called, for example, when Update, Start, LateUpdate, etc. I implemented Address Sanitizer in the project to detect leaks, overflows, or out-of-bounds reads, thus uncovering some bugs. I didn’t understand why, but ASan was having trouble integrating with the project; apparently, the shaderc library was causing problems because it had a different connotation than the project. I finally solved the problem by telling CMake to use the Release version of shaderc, not Debug. I created a test system called S_Test, which I used to verify that I could create and manage multiple entities (apparently, yes). After having several memory issues, which I resolved with the help of ASan, I also started creating a camera component so I could move freely in 3D space. I’ve improved the security of the code; Entity Command Pools now no longer need to be created by the programmer, but by the Entity Manager itself, which manages them. This minimizes the risk of freeing memory too early, resulting in cleaner code for the game. Furthermore, the EntityCommandInfo and QueryInfo classes can now be allocated on the stack rather than the heap, resulting in a more secure program. Finally, for fun, I wanted to try creating a thousand entities, also to see if the system was capable of it and if there were any problems. I have to say, I’m quite happy with the result. Next Step: I still have to improve several parts of the code to make it more secure and faster, such as the Component Registry."}, {"post_id": 18339, "ts": "2026-06-29T13:31:38Z", "hours": 6.0772, "text": "DEVLOG 7 - Code Reorganization I tried to reorganize the project so that the headers needed by users of the engine are visible, while the internal, and therefore unnecessary, ones are not. What do I mean? Let’s say we have a class called A. This class is used by the engine itself, but it can also be used by the developer, for example, to record commands or something similar. So the developer will include class A in their header or source files so it can be used. But there’s a problem: Header A could include other headers that aren’t necessarily needed by the developer using the engine, thus polluting the headers. How do I solve this problem? Since I haven’t used C++ for years, I’ve been researching the problem online for months and found the following solutions: Forward Declaration - This consists of declaring the required class in the header, in this case A, without using the include directive, which literally copies the headers included in the file containing the directive. This seems like a good method, but unfortunately the data can’t be variable by value, only by reference or pointer, since the compiler must know at compile time how much memory that specific object occupies. Pimpl Idiom - This involves enclosing or encapsulating the information needed for the internal functioning of A in a class or struct that is hidden from the developer using the engine. This method could work and is almost standard, but personally, I don’t really like the idea of having to create another structure to achieve this goal. It’s more of a workaround, since the language has significant limitations in this regard. C++20 Modules - Modules are a new way of programming in C++ because, among other things, they solve this problem. They also reduce compilation times and avoid separating the code into two separate files (.hpp and .cpp). I tried using them, and from a compiler perspective, they work great (I’m using Clang), but from a Clangd perspective, the situation is quite different: While the compiler support is fairly mature, Clangd still has several issues; in fact, it reported errors everywhere. I even tried modifying the .clangd file by adding various flags, but the situation didn’t improve. There are other methods, such as Fast Pimpl, but they aren’t as flexible. What I’m looking for is something flexible that generally works in all conditions and doesn’t introduce overhead, which Pimpl Idiom doesn’t. The final solution was to use namespaces . All the public headers that must be used by the developer using the engine are in the Eve/ namespace, while the internal headers that shouldn’t be used by the developer are in a namespace called Eve/Internal. If the developer uses these files, it’s their fault; they’re marked as internal to the engine and therefore shouldn’t be used. I also changed build system and switched to CMake as it is more widespread in the C++ community and this can also give an advantage in the engine configuration section for other users"}, {"post_id": 15067, "ts": "2026-06-24T14:08:55Z", "hours": 28.5411, "text": "DEVLOG 6 - Crash, Crash, Crash and…. Crash What I did After spending several hours designing my ECS architecture, I realized I could do better, so I basically started from scratch and, as I mentioned in the previous devlog, I chose to use Archtypes so everything would be extremely efficient. Maybe I’m a bit too obsessed with performance… The Problem Anyway, after finishing the entire system, I started the app and it crashed. After several hours of debugging with simple print(); I thought the problem was in the memory, but I couldn’t figure out where… I finally decided to use Address Sanitizer, a tool that alerts you to out-of-bounds writes or reads, which allowed me to pinpoint the problem. I had performed a nonsensical multiplication, so the memory pointer was pointing to the wrong place, specifically to the end of the allocated memory portion, causing the metadata to be overwritten. (Apparently, when allocating memory, the program itself allocates additional memory slices that store information about the allocated memory portion.) The problem was that the app didn’t always crash, only sometimes, and I didn’t understand why. But I finally managed to get it working… The Result At the moment, this is a single entity, and since I haven’t tested the rest of the code, such as the destruction logic and entity transitions from one archtype to another, there are likely other bugs waiting for me."}, {"post_id": 9873, "ts": "2026-06-16T10:28:19Z", "hours": 4.6411, "text": "DEVLOG 5 - The ECS Architecture Since I can now draw something on the screen, I’d say it’s time to start building the actual graphics engine. The first system I need to create for Eve is the management of game objects. There are two options: the first is to use the OOP programming paradigm and therefore manage game objects just like Unity does; the other, which is the one I chose, is to use the ECS (Entity, Component, System) architecture. To understand why I chose ECS, you need to understand how this architecture works. As I mentioned, the word ECS is an acronym for Entity, Component, and System, which represent the three pillars on which this architecture is based. In short, entities represent objects, the essence of the object; that object simply exists, and they are usually represented by a simple numeric ID. Components, on the other hand, represent pure data; therefore, each entity can have its own components and therefore its own data. Systems, on the other hand, are the part of the code that executes the logic. Let’s take the rendering system as an example. This will iterate over all entities that have mesh components, and a transform will take their data and send it to the GPU for rendering. This division of responsibilities ensures incredible efficiency, given how the CPU works, since the component data is stored contiguously in memory. This facilitates the work of a CPU component called the Hardware Prefetcher, which tries to predict which portion of RAM the CPU will use next, thus reducing cache misses. There are many ready-to-use libraries for this architecture, such as Flecs, EnTT, and others. I chose to try and create my own so I could learn and understand more. Currently, I’m using, broadly speaking, the same approach Unity uses with their ECS architecture, which is part of their Unity DOTS ecosystem. All entities in the game can be classified based on an ID called an Archtype, which identifies the type of entity being viewed based on its components. This way, you can have contiguous arrays and minimize cache misses, thus maximizing CPU efficiency. I’m still working on it, but I have to say it’s extremely interesting…"}, {"post_id": 8166, "ts": "2026-06-13T16:39:12Z", "hours": 4.5819, "text": "DEVLOG 4 - Textures! I finally managed to use textures; Vulkan has a bit of boilerplate in their configuration, especially with the descriptor sets. This was the part that slowed me down a bit. The code isn’t very tidy at the moment… For now, I’ve focused more on learning, so I haven’t written anything extremely tidy and readable. As I said, I’ve only learned the basics so far. Now that I feel more confident about the subject, I think I’ll start writing something. I’m thinking of a framework or something simple that allows you to draw geometry on the screen without having to write hundreds of lines of code directly with Vulkan. So, more generally, I think I’ll create a layer of abstraction while still trying to maintain excellent flexibility."}, {"post_id": 7178, "ts": "2026-06-11T23:53:28Z", "hours": 2.3814, "text": "DEVLOG 3 - First Cube!!! How satisfying, my first 3D object! Since previously all vertices were written manually in the shader, I opted to learn how to create buffers to load more complex 3D geometry onto the screen. I’m loading the resources directly into a specific portion of memory called Host Visible, where the CPU can also write, and the GPU’s reading isn’t as fast as it could be. If I instead allocate the memory in a portion of VRAM called Device Local, the GPU will be very fast at accessing the data, but the CPU, on the other hand, won’t be able to do anything with that memory. To modify it, you need to first allocate the data in an intermediate buffer called Staging Buffer, and then from there the data can go to Device Local memory (the GPU’s fast memory). I also added some transformations and rotations with GLM to rotate the cube, and this is the result, which is nice. I think I’ll try using Device Local memory by loading data to it, as discussed before, with a Staging Buffer and after that I think I’ll start experimenting with textures."}, {"post_id": 6502, "ts": "2026-06-10T22:34:52Z", "hours": 9.0367, "text": "DEVLOG 2 - Consolidation of things learned Well, What’s new? Just a square? It might not seem like much, but yes. I spent all these hours rewriting the entire code from scratch so I could understand where I had the most doubts and therefore review some concepts. Synchronization was and still is the most difficult concept to grasp; understanding how the semaphores and barriers are linked together wasn’t easy for me, and I must admit I still have some doubts about it, but certainly much less than before. Given the asynchronous nature of the graphics card, you can’t program operations that will be executed in order, unlike the CPU, and this is one of the graphics card’s strengths and weaknesses. You can parallelize many operations, but you have to be careful how they are linked together and synchronize them as correctly as possible. My next step, I think, will be to use buffers to give more complex geometry to the shaders, primarily for drawing 3D geometry. I also think I still have to delve deeper and better understand things like semaphores, timeline semaphores, and barriers, which are topics I feel I haven’t internalized as well as others."}, {"post_id": 5182, "ts": "2026-06-08T21:32:27Z", "hours": 11.6153, "text": "DEVLOG 1 - Hello Triangle!!! Finally, after several hours trying to understand how Vulkan works, watching and reading several tutorials, I got it, my first triangle, isn’t it cute?🫠🫠 I’ve figured out most of the things, but I think I need to delve a little deeper into the process of creating a pipeline with dynamic rendering and synchronization. These are the two topics that have been giving me the most trouble. I think the next step will be to re-explore the code and try to create something on my own, without a guided tutorial, to see if I’ve really understood the concepts."}]...
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Title: Eve by @Light | Stardance
Devlogs:
DEVLOG Title: Eve by @Light | Stardance
Devlogs:
DEVLOG 1 - Hello Triangle!!! Finally, after several hours trying to understand how Vulkan works, watching and reading several tutorials, I got it, my first triangle, isn’t it cute?🫠🫠 I’ve figured out most of the things, but I think I need to delve a little deeper into the process of creating a pipeline with dynamic rendering and synchronization. These are the two topics that have been giving me the most trouble. I think the next step will be to re-explore the code and try to create something on my own, without a guided tutorial, to see if I’ve really understood the concepts.
DEVLOG 2 - Consolidation of things learned Well, What’s new? Just a square? It might not seem like much, but yes. I spent all these hours rewriting the entire code from scratch so I could understand where I had the most doubts and therefore review some concepts. Synchronization was and still is the most difficult concept to grasp; understanding how the semaphores and barriers are linked together wasn’t easy for me, and I must admit I still have some doubts about it, but certainly much less than before. Given the asynchronous nature of the graphics card, you can’t program operations that will be executed in order, unlike the CPU, and this is one of the graphics card’s strengths and weaknesses. You can parallelize many operations, but you have to be careful how they are linked together and synchronize them as correctly as possible. My next step, I think, will be to use buffers to give more complex geometry to the shaders, primarily for drawing 3D geometry. I also think I still have to delve deeper and better understand things like semaphores, timeline semaphores, and barriers, which are topics I feel I haven’t internalized as well as others.
DEVLOG 3 - First Cube!!! How satisfying, my first 3D object! Since previously all vertices were written manually in the shader, I opted to learn how to create buffers to load more complex 3D geometry onto the screen. I’m loading the resources directly into a specific portion of memory called Host Visible, where the CPU can also write, and the GPU’s reading isn’t as fast as it could be. If I instead allocate the memory in a portion of VRAM called Device Local, the GPU will be very fast at accessing the data, but the CPU, on the other hand, won’t be able to do anything with that memory. To modify it, you need to first allocate the data in an intermediate buffer called Staging Buffer, and then from there the data can go to Device Local memory (the GPU’s fast memory). I also added some transformations and rotations with GLM to rotate the cube, and this is the result, which is nice. I think I’ll try using Device Local memory by loading data to it, as discussed before, with a Staging Buffer and after that I think I’ll start experimenting with textures.
DEVLOG 4 - Textures! I finally managed to use textures; Vulkan has a bit of boilerplate in their configuration, especially with the descriptor sets. This was the part that slowed me down a bit. The code isn’t very tidy at the moment… For now, I’ve focused more on learning, so I haven’t written anything extremely tidy and readable. As I said, I’ve only learned the basics so far. Now that I feel more confident about the subject, I think I’ll start writing something. I’m thinking of a framework or something simple that allows you to draw geometry on the screen without having to write hundreds of lines of code directly with Vulkan. So, more generally, I think I’ll create a layer of abstraction while still trying to maintain excellent flexibility.
DEVLOG 5 - The ECS Architecture Since I can now draw something on the screen, I’d say it’s time to start building the actual graphics engine. The first system I need to create for Eve is the management of game objects. There are two options: the first is to use the OOP programming paradigm and therefore manage game objects just like Unity does; the other, which is the one I chose, is to use the ECS (Entity, Component, System) architecture. To understand why I chose ECS, you need to understand how this architecture works. As I mentioned, the word ECS is an acronym for Entity, Component, and System, which represent the three pillars on which this architecture is based. In short, entities represent objects, the essence of the object; that object simply exists, and they are usually represented by a simple numeric ID. Components, on the other hand, represent pure data; therefore, each entity can have its own components and therefore its own data. Systems, on the other hand, are the part of the code that executes the logic. Let’s take the rendering system as an example. This will iterate over all entities that have mesh components, and a transform will take their data and send it to the GPU for rendering. This division of responsibilities ensures incredible efficiency, given how the CPU works, since the component data is stored contiguously in memory. This facilitates the work of a CPU component called the Hardware Prefetcher, which tries to predict which portion of RAM the CPU will use next, thus reducing cache misses. There are many ready-to-use libraries for this architecture, such as Flecs, EnTT, and others. I chose to try and create my own so I could learn and understand more. Currently, I’m using, broadly speaking, the same approach Unity uses with their ECS architecture, which is part of their Unity DOTS ecosystem. All entities in the game can be classified based on an ID called an Archtype, which identifies the type of entity being viewed based on its components. This way, you can have contiguous arrays and minimize cache misses, thus maximizing CPU efficiency. I’m still working on it, but I have to say it’s extremely interesting…
DEVLOG 6 - Crash, Crash, Crash and…. Crash What I did After spending several hours designing my ECS architecture, I realized I could do better, so I basically started from scratch and, as I mentioned in the previous devlog, I chose to use Archtypes so everything would be extremely efficient. Maybe I’m a bit too obsessed with performance… The Problem Anyway, after finishing the entire system, I started the app and it crashed. After several hours of debugging with simple print(); I thought the problem was in the memory, but I couldn’t figure out where… I finally decided to use Address Sanitizer, a tool that alerts you to out-of-bounds writes or reads, which allowed me to pinpoint the problem. I had performed a nonsensical multiplication, so the memory pointer was pointing to the wrong place, specifically to the end of the allocated memory portion, causing the metadata to be overwritten. (Apparently, when allocating memory, the program itself allocates additional memory slices that store information about the allocated memory portion.) The problem was that the app didn’t always crash, only sometimes, and I didn’t understand why. But I finally managed to get it working… The Result At the moment, this is a single entity, and since I haven’t tested the rest of the code, such as the destruction logic and entity transitions from one archtype to another, there are likely other bugs waiting for me.
DEVLOG 7 - Code Reorganization I tried to reorganize the project so that the headers needed by users of the engine are visible, while the internal, and therefore unnecessary, ones are not. What do I mean? Let’s say we have a class called A. This class is used by the engine itself, but it can also be used by the developer, for example, to record commands or something similar. So the developer will include class A in their header or source files so it can be used. But there’s a problem: Header A could include other headers that aren’t necessarily needed by the developer using the engine, thus polluting the headers. How do I solve this problem? Since I haven’t used C++ for years, I’ve been researching the problem online for months and found the following solutions: Forward Declaration - This consists of declaring the required class in the header, in this case A, without using the include directive, which literally copies the headers included in the file containing the directive. This seems like a good method, but unfortunately the data can’t be variable by value, only by reference or pointer, since the compiler must know at compile time how much memory that specific object occupies. Pimpl Idiom - This involves enclosing or encapsulating the information needed for the internal functioning of A in a class or struct that is hidden from the developer using the engine. This method could work and is almost standard, but personally, I don’t really like the idea of having to create another structure to achieve this goal. It’s more of a workaround, since the language has significant limitations in this regard. C++20 Modules - Modules are a new way of programming in C++ because, among other things, they solve this problem. They also reduce compilation times and avoid separating the code into two separate files (.hpp and .cpp). I tried using them, and from a compiler perspective, they work great (I’m using Clang), but from a Clangd perspective, the situation is quite different: While the compiler support is fairly mature, Clangd still has several issues; in fact, it reported errors everywhere. I even tried modifying the .clangd file by adding various flags, but the situation didn’t improve. There are other methods, such as Fast Pimpl, but they aren’t as flexible. What I’m looking for is something flexible that generally works in all conditions and doesn’t introduce overhead, which Pimpl Idiom doesn’t. The final solution was to use namespaces . All the public headers that must be used by the developer using the engine are in the Eve/ namespace, while the internal headers that shouldn’t be used by the developer are in a namespace called Eve/Internal. If the developer uses these files, it’s their fault; they’re marked as internal to the engine and therefore shouldn’t be used. I also changed build system and switched to CMake as it is more widespread in the C++ community and this can also give an advantage in the engine configuration section for other users
DEVLOG 8 - 1K Entities I implemented several things: One of these is a manager that allows systems to register their functions so they can be called, for example, when Update, Start, LateUpdate, etc. I implemented Address Sanitizer in the project to detect leaks, overflows, or out-of-bounds reads, thus uncovering some bugs. I didn’t understand why, but ASan was having trouble integrating with the project; apparently, the shaderc library was causing problems because it had a different connotation than the project. I finally solved the problem by telling CMake to use the Release version of shaderc, not Debug. I created a test system called S_Test, which I used to verify that I could create and manage multiple entities (apparently, yes). After having several memory issues, which I resolved with the help of ASan, I also started creating a camera component so I could move freely in 3D space. I’ve improved the security of the code; Entity Command Pools now no longer need to be created by the programmer, but by the Entity Manager itself, which manages them. This minimizes the risk of freeing memory too early, resulting in cleaner code for the game. Furthermore, the EntityCommandInfo and QueryInfo classes can now be allocated on the stack rather than the heap, resulting in a more secure program. Finally, for fun, I wanted to try creating a thousand entities, also to see if the system was capable of it and if there were any problems. I have to say, I’m quite happy with the result. Next Step: I still have to improve several parts of the code to make it more secure and faster, such as the Component Registry.
DEVLOG 9 - 100K Entities After the last devlog, in which I rendered 1K entities, I tried increasing the number of entities to a 15x15x15 cube, or 3375 entities, and I saw the frame rate drop unexpectedly, 25 FPS. I was wondering if this was normal or not… Apparently, it wasn’t… I tried to figure out the problem, but it wasn’t easy. I tried using a tool called RenderDoc that lets you see what’s happening on the GPU, so all the calls, data passed to the GPU, buffers, textures, etc. That information also included the time, and the GPU indicated it was taking about 16 ms, which was quite strange. I started to suspect Vulkan’s validation layers. By disabling them, I got to 30 FPS or a little higher, I don’t remember exactly. Then I disabled ASan and set the swapchain to Immediate Mode so as not to be constrained by the screen refresh rate, and I got to about 100 FPS. Then I made several CPU-level optimizations at the code level by changing the way components are obtained from batches in my ECS system, specifically limiting those operations that can be avoided in the internal component iteration loop, and I got up to 140 fps. Finally, the thing that made me open my eyes and say WOW was compiling in Release and not Debug, the fps skyrocketed to around 2300… I couldn’t believe it either… After doing all this, I rendered 100,000 entities and my fps were stable at 90… Incredible! Finally, just for the sake of curiosity, I tested 1,000,000 entities and got 9 fps, which is good because it means the system scales linearly. This is what I’ve been doing for the last two hours. Before that, I spent some time revisiting my ECS code to make it more secure. For example, many of the Table and EntityManager methods now return references and not pointers. I’ve also made the ComponentRegistry class much more efficient by storing component information in contiguous arrays instead of lists, which therefore contain non-contiguous data. Next Steps: I need to implement a way to get verified IDs from the EntityManager, since currently the IDs are only manual and non-unique. And then I’ll need to refactor the rendering code again, making it more modular, since it’s currently all in a single class.
DEVLOG 10 - Working On The Vulkan Wrapper For now, I’m focused on creating a wrapper for Vulkan to make it simpler and less repetitive to use. I don’t want to create a wrapper that abstracts too much, thus losing control; instead, I’m creating a fairly thin wrapper. I’m currently restructured the Application class a bit and divided some of its parts into three “modules.” I’m structuring this using the Factory Pattern. I’ve created three Builders: one for the window and SDL initialization, one for creating a Vulkan context—VulkanInstace, PhysicalDevice, LogicalDevice, and the graphics queue—and the last one for building the swapchain. I chose this approach because I consider it flexible and I don’t want everything to fit into one huge monolith; I prefer having multiple modular classes. In addition to these more or less complete builders, I’m focusing on creating a system that can allow shaders to see and manipulate the data stored in VRAM. This is usually done with DescriptorSets, which have been the standard for years. They’re more or less like pointers to objects in VRAM so shaders can access them. In reality, they’re fat pointers because they contain other information besides the address. However, this approach is good but not optimal because it introduces CPU overhead. Since the draw calls may not share the same materials and therefore require different textures, a new DescriptorSet must be bound before each draw call, which, with many draw calls, incurs CPU overhead. What I’m doing to solve this problem is looking towards a more modern and efficient approach called Bindless. Basically, instead of having multiple small DescriptorSets, you have one huge global DescriptorSet that contains all the resources used by the application. So we could have a sort of array containing all the samplers, then another containing all the textures, another containing all the buffers of a specific type, etc. Then we just need to bind this DescriptorSet at the start of rendering, which will be used for the entire rendering process, and pass indices to the shader that will tell it which resources to use from the DescriptorSet. I’m a little slow in developing all this because I’ve never used Vulkan; in fact, I’m still learning. The second reason is that Vulkan is very complex and there’s a lot of boilerplate code. I still have to finish the ECS system since I don’t yet have a centralized approach for obtaining the IDs and GenerationIds of new entities, which are verified and therefore safely managed internally by the engine. But I think I’ll do it later since I’m a little tired of fiddling with entities and want to do something different for a while.
DEVLOG 11 - BDA, Pipeline, Shaders In the last devlog, I explained how I wanted to structure my bindless descriptor set. With that approach, I had a buffer for each data type. This approach works, but it’s a bit cumbersome, so I switched to using Buffer Device Addresses (BDAs). The idea behind it is: Create buffers, around VRAM, placing the buffers within VRAM memory pools. Instead of saving the physical data inside the descriptor buffer, we can only save pointers to the buffers, so I’ll have a buffer of pointers to the buffers scattered across VRAM. Since the pointers take up 8 bytes, managing the buffer is very simple, as it will be very light. So, essentially, I separate the physical data of the buffers from the shader binding logic. Rather than using namespaces to hide the internal implementation, I chose to use Hadles, which are simply numbers that identify that resource. So I could have a BufferHandle, ImageHandle, SamplerHandle, PipelineHandle, and so on. I chose not to call the structure that manages all this with names that might be reminiscent of the Vulkan API, but instead called this system Resource Mapper. At the moment, I think I’ve done something wrong with the code: Since the buffers are simply exposed via a 32-bit index, internally the buffer index corresponds to the index of the vector in which the Vulkan buffer handles and all the allocation information are allocated. I think I’ve erred in saving the buffers in vector indices that don’t match their exposed handle index outside of Eve. This causes access to incorrect buffers or buffers that don’t even exist, causing UBs or crashes. I still need to verify this issue and, if it occurs, I’ll have to fix it. Furthermore, yesterday I added all the code responsible for creating the graphics pipeline and compiling the shaders. This code is still a bit rough and needs improvement. Furthermore, since I don’t want the user to have to manage synchronization outside of the engine, I’ve been thinking about how to structure a Render Graph. I saw Frostbite’s presentation at GDC 2017 where they explained how their Render Graph works and that gave me some insights.
DEVLOG 12 - Render Graph, Code Refactoring A Little Recap In the last devlog, I mentioned I watched the 2017 GDC conference, where they explained how the Frostbite development team had created a Render Graph. But what is a Render Graph, and what is it used for? To answer this question, we must first understand how the GPU works. The Difference: CPU & GPU First, a GPU, unlike a CPU, performs all its operations in parallel. When we write code for the CPU, we say: do this operation, then this, then that, and so on. The CPU performs its operations synchronously, in sequential order. The GPU, however, doesn’t work that way. If we tell the GPU that we want to draw three objects, we can send it three draw calls, which we’ll call A, B, and C. These draw calls are sent in order, so first A, then B, and then C. The order in which the commands are sent doesn’t correspond to the order in which they are executed, because the GPU could execute the commands in this order: C, B, A, or B, A, C, or A, C, B, and so on. This is because, while operation A might be in progress, operation B might start executing, so both commands will use the same resources and therefore run into a race condition if both operations are not read-only. The Problem From this perspective, the GPU is very powerful because it tries to stay constantly busy, eliminating dead time. However, this greatly complicates things on the synchronization side. Let’s take two operations: operation A that writes an image and operation B that reads the image. How can we be sure that the GPU executes operation A first and not B? Who can assure us that the GPU, while executing A, doesn’t have to execute B? The answer to all these questions is no one. How Graphics APIs Handle All Of This In graphics APIs like OpenGL, all of this is hidden from the programmer, so they don’t have to worry about it. But in graphics APIs like Vulkan and DirectX 12, this is the programmer’s responsibility. The programmer must write a barrier and tell the GPU not to touch the image from operation B before A has finished. For a few barriers, this is feasible, but as soon as you write more complex applications, making the code sufficiently organized, non-repetitive, and fast to develop becomes very challenging. This is why the concept of a Render Graph exists. What A Render Graph Does A Render Graph allows the programmer to specify which steps the GPU should execute, which operations resources like images and textures will perform, and in what order. The Frame Graph looks at this graph constructed by the programmer at each frame and internally understands where barriers and sometimes semaphores are needed (if we’re working with multiple queues, that’s not the case for me). Another responsibility of the Frame Graph is to internally allocate and manage resources that only exist within a single frame, called transient resources. Finally, I’m implementing Memory Aliasing. This reduces the memory used by resources: for example, if resource A is used for the last time in pass 3 and resource B for the first time in pass 4, they can share the same physical memory, thus reducing the overall memory requirement. Bonus I’ve also restructured the texture creation methods, making them simpler and allowing for fewer specifications. The before and after is a good result… The same goes for 1D and 3D textures.
DEVLOG 13 - Memory Aliasing Recap In the last devlog, I explained what I did and why I was creating a Render Graph. I mentioned a concept called Memory Aliasing, but I explained it briefly. I’ve been working extensively on the Render Graph these past few hours to implement the Memory Aliasing algorithm. What is Memory Aliasing? Memory Aliasing involves having two or more resources use the same portions of memory, thus sharing that memory. For example, let’s take a texture we’ll call A. This texture is used as Depth in pass 1 and read in pass 2. Another texture, called B, is used in pass 3 and pass 4 (see photo). We could allocate both resources independently, but you can clearly see that the resources don’t overlap in the passes. Texture A begins its usage cycle in pass 1 and ends in pass 2, and immediately after, in pass 3, texture B is used for the first time. What we could do is have both textures occupy the same memory space to save VRAM. This is the concept of Memory Aliasing. Obviously, since the resources share the same memory space, barriers must be created to synchronize resource access, otherwise there would be a race condition (two threads operating in parallel on the same memory space, not just for read-only operations). Resource Pooling In addition to memory aliasing, I wanted to optimize another aspect that took me some time. In Vulkan, when you want to create resources, you use vkCreateImage and vkCreateBuffer. These functions create a handle without associating physical memory with these objects. Binding occurs later, after executing the memory aliasing algorithm, which determines which memory space to assign to a resource. This means that I have to create and destroy resource handles every frame, which apparently isn’t a light operation to perform on multiple resources. So I thought that if there was a possibility, I could reuse handles from previous frames by simply comparing whether the settings of the requested handle were the same as the one to be reused and then binding the memory. The Problem and the Solution This was the idea I had, but unfortunately it’s not feasible because Vulkan doesn’t allow memory binding to a resource more than once, so this approach wouldn’t have worked. After thinking for a while about how to solve this, I decided to include in the requirements for using old handles, in addition to the texture or buffer settings, the offset and stride of how they were bound in memory. This way, if the pass structure and usage hadn’t changed significantly during the user’s setup phase, the Memory Aliasing algorithm would always produce the same results, given the deterministic nature, making this all feasible. Finally, if the resources aren’t reused for an N number of consecutive frames, they are permanently destroyed.
DEVLOG 14 - I Rewrote The Memory Aliasing Algorithm Intro Unfortunately, I don’t have anything exciting to say. I’m forced to do this devlog since I’ve reached ten hours since my last devlog, so I have to publish one, otherwise my hours wouldn’t count in full. I’ll try to share what I did, the problems I encountered, and how I solved them. The Problem I might sound crazy, but after working on the Render Graph for twenty hours, I rewrote it entirely from scratch. You might ask, why? The reason I did this was Vulkan itself. I discovered that, since I’d previously relied on VMA (Vulkan Memory Allocator) to manage memory, now that I was managing memory without it, there was something I’d overlooked: a parameter called Memory Type Index. The Memory Type Index indicates where to allocate memory. There could be a Memory Type Index for the GPU’s local memory, one for the Resizable BAR, etc. So, what’s the problem if all the Render Graph resources must live exclusively in the GPU’s local memory anyway? Wouldn’t it be enough to simply add a few lines of code and everything would be solved? Unfortunately, not because this index indicates in which memory to allocate that resource, but there’s also another parameter called Memory Type Bits, which is a bitmask that indicates in which Memory Type Indexes a resource can or cannot be allocated. All resources are allocated in the same Memory Type Index, but they may have different Memory Type Bits. This means, for example, that a texture without multi-samples cannot fit in the same memory space as a texture with multi-samples. This can also happen with the aspect mask, so a color texture and a depth texture might not fit in the same place. It could also happen with the format or tiling. The same goes for buffers, but these are more flexible than textures. The Solution My Memory Aliasing algorithm was designed without taking all this into account, so I chose to rewrite a large part of the Render Graph, trying to recycle some parts. Therefore, the Aliasing algorithm now operates on “Buckets,” which are in-memory containers containing resources that can fit in the same space. Without this distinction, memory aliasing wouldn’t be possible because a resource attempting to reuse memory used by previous resources must only check among resources with the same requirements, not among all resources. Therefore, it checks per bucket, not all existing resources. This has also made the code much cleaner and more organized.
DEVLOG 15 - Slang & Render Graph Reorganization So, I’ve been dividing the project into folders, making everything more organized, which wasn’t the case until now. The New Shader Language: Slang I saw that there was a more modern alternative to GLSL I could use, so I chose Slang. I created the code to create it in real time, and then I also changed the architecture of the Pipeline Builder a bit (the class responsible for creating Vulkan’s Pipeline and PipelineLayout objects). Vertex Fetch, Why Did I Choose It? I’ve been thinking for a while about forcing users of the engine to use Vertex Fetch. What is it? Well, normally when using a shader, before the Vertex Shader there’s a phase called Input Assembly that, based on the triangle indices, samples vertices from the vertex buffer, allowing them to be used directly in the Vertex Shader without manual sampling. However, this means that the layout of the vertex buffer must never change; if it were to change, you’d have to create another Pipeline object and bind it. Honestly, I don’t like this limitation very much. That’s why I removed this feature and adopted Vertex Fetch, which allows you to not specify a vertex layout, thus having as few Pipeline objects as possible. Obviously, you have to manually fetch the vertex from the respective buffer in the Vertex Shader, but frankly, it’s not a huge problem. Work In Progress On The Render Graph Another thing I’m implementing is commands that can be sent to the GPU via the Render Graph. So now you can draw, make GPU-GPU copies between buffers, between textures, and even between textures and buffers. Copies currently only support Transient resources; I’ll add the functionality for Persistent resources later. The same goes for using Compute Shaders. I’ve also added the ability to upload data from the CPU to the GPU, again for transient resources. For Persistent resources, I’ll also add this functionality later. I’m still writing the code for this, so I’m not finished yet, but I’m forced to devlog for the usual 10 hours of Stardance…
DEVLOG 16 - Blank Window, Draw Calls & More The last ten hours have been very productive. As the devlog title suggests, I managed to get the classic black window, completed the code for draw calls, and also accomplished many other things. Draw Calls Commands I then completed the code for making draw calls with a simple mesh, integrating all the logic into the Render Graph. If you want to send any command to the GPU—a draw call, a copy, a dispatch, or anything else—it must necessarily go through the Render Graph. This allows me to have a central entity that can manage barriers and commands in a highly optimized, precise, and secure manner. When you want to draw something, you must declare a graphics pass. This pass has methods to execute the drawing commands, but it also has methods to set things like the texture depth/stencil to use, the target texture to draw on, etc. You can also have multiple color targets, as long as they have the same resolution. Blank Window Since I haven’t seen any tangible results on screen for a while, only code, I tried displaying a black window and then initializing the engine. The new context, window, and swapchain builders all work. The Resource Mapper, the class that manages the global descriptor set, also works. Testing the other classes will require a bit more work until I’ve got all the missing pieces, but it’s almost there. Persistent Resources Support Since creating a mesh also involves creating data and sending it to the GPU via buffers, I need a way to upload data from the CPU to the GPU. Mesh buffers are persistent, not transient. Currently, in the Render Graph code, I only had support for copying and uploading transient resources. From now on, this is also available for Persistent resources, as I’ve written the same code for them as well. I also implemented barrier generation for persistent resources so that synchronization is handled internally by the Render Graph, as with transient resources. New Resource Handles Up until now, each resource has been represented as a handle corresponding to an unsigned 32-bit number. From now on, resources are represented by two unsigned 32-bit numbers: one for the previously existing identification number and a generation number. By combining both numbers, each resource is unique, thus eliminating the possibility that if a resource is destroyed and recreated with the same ID, it could be mistaken for an older resource that no longer exists. Project Cleaning I finally cleaned up the project a bit and made it a bit more organized by dividing the files into more specific subfolders.
DEVLOG 17 - Meshes & New Architecture Into See you again, Stardance. I’ve been implementing several things lately, as the title suggests, and I think we might soon have some geometry on the screen. Mesh System I’ve been working on meshes, creating everything needed to support mesh creation, editing, and destruction. Currently, if you create a mesh, you obviously create all the necessary buffers: one for vertex positions, one for normals, one for UVs, etc. So, for example, if I load position data and the buffer doesn’t exist, a new buffer is created and a CPU-GPU upload operation is performed. However, if the buffer exists and its size is greater than the new vertex size, the buffer isn’t reallocated to a smaller size but remains the same, reducing the number of vertices used for drawing. I’m not sure how useful this option is, but I plan to add an option to specify this in the future. Image Presentation Supported I’ve also been working on how to display an image on the screen. Currently, the Render Graph has a method that, given a texture’s Transient handle, sets that texture as the image to display on the screen. Internally, the Render Graph creates a draw pass at the end of all existing passes and then samples from the presentation texture set to draw on the swapchain. The code for all this might be a little rough at the moment; I’ll improve it later. The New Architecture For a while now, I’ve felt like the code was stepping on its own toes. I had a class called MemoryRegistry that was responsible for assigning slots to resources, allocating them, and managing their lifecycle. I didn’t like this, so I decided to rewrite much of it, splitting everything into multiple classes. Now I have a class called ResourceRegistry that provides resource IDs. A class called ResourceMapper that inserts resources into their respective global descriptors. A class called ResourceTracker that manages the resource lifecycle, their last use, which stage they were in, and similar information. Until recently, the MemoryRegistry managed both persistent and transient resources, which was a mess. I’ve decided that the MemoryRegistry should only manage persistent resources, while transient resources should be managed by a class called TransientResourcePool or something similar, which should be managed by the RenderGraph. That’s exactly what I’m working on. Some Stupid Bugs I overran the timeframe because I was partially testing the new code and encountered a stupid bug that made me lose time. (I was iterating an Array starting from the last element, but I forgot to subtract one from the size of the vector assigned to the for loop index, thus causing an out-of-memory access.) I think I’ll also rewrite a good portion of the RenderGraph first to adapt it to the new architecture. Advantages These changes will make developing new features faster and less cumbersome without having to adapt to an architecture that was poorly designed from the start. I swear that after I’ve done all this, I’ll render something to the screen, assuming there are no unforeseen issues ;)
DEVLOG 18 - More Refactoring Hi Stardance! I don’t know what to say about this devlog, since I’ve written a lot of code for my specific implementation… I’ll try to describe what I did without being too boring. Why I refactored again? As discussed in the previous devlog, I felt the code wasn’t “nice” or at least not very tidy, and honestly, I don’t like that very much, so I rewrote the Render Graph (partially) for the third time. Now, the Render Graph only manages single-frame resources, while all multi-frame resources are managed by a separate class called TransientResourcePool, which is therefore responsible for storing the resources. The Render Graph: A single frame responsibility The Render Graph is still responsible for memory aliasing and resource pooling, of course, as well as generating barriers and inserting the draw, copy, and, in the future, compute commands. (I still need to improve the code for compiling commands into the Command Buffers a bit.) Improvement in the searching of pooled resources Now, searching for resources to reuse is even faster, since resources are divided by their composition, for example. For textures, the parameters for this division are height, depth, width, samples, etc. This allows you to immediately find a resource if it’s available. More organization is the TransientResourcePool The TransientResourcePool is also responsible for permanently destroying unused resources for several frames. I had written the destruction code within the TransientResourcePool, but I thought maybe it wasn’t its responsibility, but rather an existing class called MemoryBin. The MemoryBin class was configured to work only for persistent resources, but now it handles the destruction of persistent and transient resources. What I need to fix: There’s a small problem in the code: Normally, when you want to destroy a resource, it’s queued and usually assigned a countdown. This countdown is a number that corresponds to the maximum frames in flight and decreases by one every frame. When this number reaches zero, the resource can be destroyed. This works perfectly, but when, for example, the swapchain needs to be recreated because the window size has changed, the GPU needs to be put into idle mode. This means that all in-flight frames have finished, and therefore all resources queued for destruction can and must be destroyed immediately, otherwise they would pile up. Otherwise, I think everything is perfect. I don’t think it will take me long to implement these little tricks, so I assume and hope :/ to start writing the code to display something on the screen soon. I’ll go back to my old, dear little triangle :)
DEVLOG 19 - Colors! Hi Stardance! I’ve made some progress and finally drew something on the screen! Improvements on the Swapchain Pass I’ve improved the Render Graph a bit by cleaning up old methods and making all the improvements discussed in the last devlog, such as improving the rendering code for the swapchain. Normally, you would set the 2D texture to display on the screen using the RenderGraph::SetPresentTexture(); In reality, this texture isn’t displayed directly on the screen but is first sampled and copied to the swapchain, so the Render Graph adds a hidden pass for this. When this texture hasn’t been assigned to any texture, the swapchain will be colored with the clear value set to black and sent to the screen. Push Constants Supported I’ve added the ability to use Vulkan Push Constants. Push Constants are data packets that can be sent to the GPU in parallel with the drawing command. Their size is very limited, 128 bytes, but their transfer speed is extremely fast. A hardware limitation is that the offset and size parameters must be multiples of four, so I used a struct called Words32 to dictate the 32-bit size and offset, not the 8-bit one. Furthermore, internally, the engine checks the state of the previous push constant for each push constant update, so as not to make unnecessary updates and to register the push constant command only when necessary, and only partially for the relevant bytes. Shaders Improvements I improved the shader code a bit by reducing the arguments needed to create a shader, and I also unified the layout; all shaders use the same VkPipelineLayout . The Problem and The Solution When I was writing the shaders to get these things on screen, I ran into errors telling me I was assigning a buffer descriptor to Descriptor Set 0 with binding 0, even though they’re actually textures. However, in the shader, I wasn’t requesting any of this, since the vertex data was written directly into the shader. After some research, I discovered that Slang shaders were creating bindings for these arrays outside the shader. To fix this, I simply moved the arrays into the vertex shader function, marking them with const. And note that all these images/videos use the swapchain pass, so this was all just a test. Now I’ll have to try declaring a real pass with Render Graph and try to draw something, hoping everything works correctly :/
DEVLOG 20 - A Better Triangle Intro Hi Stardance! This triangle was created with Render Graph . The entire process is divided into two steps: the first draws the triangle on a user-selected image, and the second takes that image, samples it, and draws it on the swapchain so the triangle can be seen on screen. Clean and Simple API The beauty of this is evident in the photo (third attachment). You only need to write a few lines of code to achieve all this compared to the complexity and number of lines of code required by Vulkan. Render Graph thus creates all the resources needed for synchronization, such as barriers , and attempts to alias memory whenever possible. It also leverages Resource Pooling , so images aren’t destroyed and recreated at every frame. Instead, if they have identical requirements, they are reused, avoiding unnecessary Vulkan calls. MSAA Deprecated MSAA images have been deprecated because, from a desktop computer perspective, they aren’t worth using because they require a lot of computational resources. To achieve anti-aliasing, it’s best to use post-processing passes that use FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing) or TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing). There are probably some bugs still present in the Render Graph despite the many already fixed; I’ll work on them.
DEVLOG 21 - ECS Refactoring Intro Over the past ten hours, I’ve worked extensively on the ECS , making it more robust, easier to use, more secure, and more efficient. What’s changed: New Way To Record Entity Commands Entity Command Pools are still used, but they’re managed not by the user but by the Entity Manager. The old CreateCommandPool() method no longer exists. Now, to execute a command on entities, you make a request to the EntityManager , which takes the command and places it in an EntityCommandPool of its choosing. The EntityCommandPool is chosen based on the SystemId provided by the engine with methods like Start, Awake, Update, etc. This reduces complexity and allows for systems that can run natively in parallel on multiple threads. Improved Efficiency Internally, the Entity Manager has improved the way to compact batches after command execution, making it simpler and faster. Instead, iterating over all batches only iterates on the entities that are no longer valid, and those slots are refilled with the components of the valid entities at the end of the last batches. Batch creation and destruction is handled automatically by the EntityManager . New Way To Query Tables The way to find tables with certain requirements has improved; the old method required registering a query and then returning a “ticket” used to access the query results. The operation is now simpler and more unified: The EntityManager is asked for all tables that meet the QueryInfo structure requirements, such as the archtype. The EntityManager checks whether the query already exists; if it doesn’t, it calculates it on the fly and returns it. Queries Updated Only When Needed Queries are updated only when tables are created/destroyed; otherwise, they remain - static and aren’t updated, saving calculations . The next step will be to verify if everything works, since I haven’t tested anything yet because I’m forced to do this devlog due to the ten-hour time limit. :/ Sorry about the picture, it’s the same, I didn’t have time to do anything else
DEVLOG 22 - ECS Bugs Fixed, Graphics Files Reorganized Hi Stardance! What I Did In this dev log, I fixed some of the last bugs the ECS code, so it now works and is very efficient. I ran several tests destroying, creating, and moving entities from one archtype to another, and everything works. I then worked on the project structure of the graphics part by fixing the graphics include files. What Went Wrong These updates mentioned so far have been successful. Two hours ago, I added a method in the graphics pass responsible for instanced drawing, so I took advantage of the opportunity to create a buffer to read the instance positions to see if it worked. I still don’t know why, but it doesn’t work. The application freezes, and sometimes the driver crashes (it scared me a little… :/ ). The Validation Layers don’t report anything wrong… So I need to figure out what’s wrong and fix it. The image shows some of the methods available after fixing the folders. The methods are in the Graphics class in the include folder.
DEVLOG 23 - Instanced Draw & Some Fixes Intro Devlog time!! In the last devlog, I had some issues with instanced drawing and reading a position buffer. What Was The Problem? I worked hard, but I managed to figure out where the problem was and fix it. (The problem was due to a for loop responsible for creating the address buffers. I was saving pointers outside the for loop with structs allocated inside the for loop; therefore, the pointers were pointing to corrupted memory or nothing.) Render Graph Fixes I fixed several things in the Render Graph that could cause future problems. I added small guards within the Render Graph so that if the user does something wrong, the application doesn’t crash unexpectedly. For example, previously, if the user set a texture to display that they’d never used (never involved in a transfer operation, never used as a graphic attachment), the program would crash. With these simple guards, everything is solved. Easier Resource Usage Declaration I’ve also added the ability to easily declare textures and buffers usage in the Graphics Pass class with dedicated methods like UseBufferReadOnlyVertex(...) , UseTextureVertex(...) , and others. The image shows a grid of 20x20 quad meshes drawn with a single draw call instead of 400 using instanced draw.
DEVLOG 24 - Error Manager, Copies & More Intro Hi Stardance! Lately, I’ve been focusing mainly on improving error handling returned by Vulkan and fixing some code here and there. New Error Manager System I’ve created a system responsible for error handling so that when an error occurs, such as a failure to allocate memory due to fragmentation or any other critical error, the app places a text file with information about the error in a folder called logs (created on the fly if it doesn’t exist). Immediately afterward, an error message is displayed on the screen explaining what happened. When the user presses the OK button, the app closes in the pop-up by calling std::abort(); . Some Test On Other PCs I tried running Eve outside of my PC on two other PCs, but since they’re a bit older, they don’t have support for Vulkan 1.4, so the app can’t be started. Swapchain Improvements The code for creating the swapchain has been improved somewhat, making it more secure and robust. New Copy Support I’ve added support for buffer and texture copy operations between resources that aren’t the same type (one transient and one persistent). Next Step: I want to make Eve a little more portable, so in the next few hours I’ll try using Vulkan 1.2, trying not to mess with the code. If necessary, I might resort to using Vulkan 1.3; I’ll see…
DEVLOG 25 - Eve is “Multi PC” Hi everyone! What’s changed since last time? More Device Supported As promised, Eve now uses Vulkan 1.2, so it can be used on multiple devices. Obviously, the device requires that, in addition to supporting Vulkan 1.2, it also supports some extensions that became core in Vulkan 1.3. Tests On Other PCs I then tried running the app on the only PC I had at home, but it crashed. I then tried updating the graphics driver, but that didn’t help; unfortunately, that PC is too old. I then asked a friend of mine to test the app. After fixing some issues, it started, but it would crash instantly. After hours of debugging, I found the problem: the problem was in resource allocation within the Render Graph, which only occurred with integrated GPUs (my heap selection algorithm for integrated GPUs was wrong). It’s now fixed. I also added my checks for failed Vulkan or VMA calls in places where they were missing, so now everything should work properly. Math Packet In Eve I also added a small mathematical component to Eve, including Vector2,3,4 ; Vector2Int,3Int,4Int ; Quaternion ; and Matrix4x4 . I must say that quaternions were difficult to understand at first, but once you understand how they work, it’s very easy to visualize them in your head. The first attachment shows Eve running on the PC of this friend of mine, whom I thank so much for his help, and the second image shows Eve running on my PC.
DEVLOG 26 - Input System Hi Stardance! The New Input System Since I couldn’t interact much with the graphics engine at the moment, I chose to create an Input System that currently only supports keyboard and mouse. It has methods like IsKeyDown(...) , GetMouseState(...) , IsMouseUp(...) , and similar ones. It’s quite simple, but it allows you to interact with the world, for example by creating a camera or a moving player. The Cube For fun and to test a bit, I tried creating a scene with a slightly rotated cube with direct light, obviously using my Render Graph, which allows you to do all this in about 150 lines of code (CPU side) instead of having to manually write barriers, configure passes, and many other repetitive tasks. I’m still using glm for matrix math, but I’m trying to reach a more stable level with the Eve package.
DEVLOG 27 - Material System Intro After some code rewrites, such as the separation between shaders and materials, the materials system now works. It’s very similar to how it works in Unity. I’ve figured out how to set things like material properties (floats, integers, vectors, etc.) directly from C++ using their names, without manually binding code. How Vulkan Handle All Of This? In Vulkan, you can’t set a shader parameter directly with a name. You need to create a buffer on the GPU, specifically a UBO, typically used for materials, bind it using a descriptor, and then bind it on the CPU. All of this is hidden by Eve, making the code easier and faster to write. What It Does? Basically, once the shader is compiled, it’s analyzed and checked for a struct called Properties. If it exists, this struct will be used for the material properties. Each field within it will be settable directly from the CPU using its name. Eve, now knowing the size of the struct and the field offsets, creates a buffer for the materials (actually, one for each frame in flight) and uses it to write everything a material might need, thus allowing for very simple parameter setting. How To Use It: The material provides an ID via the GetPropertyUBOId function, which must always be retrieved at each frame since it is not the same from frame to frame. This ID can be sent to the shader via push constant, which then allows access to the material’s property UBO, which contains all the values set on the CPU side. A simple cube rotating on itself using the new Material System and simple direct lighting
DEVLOG 28 - New Render System Hi Stardance! Intro I think this devlog is consistent with the next one I’m working on, since the work I’ve done in the last few hours isn’t quite finished, as there are still some bugs to resolve… Why a new render system? So far, I’ve been working on improving Eve’s rendering system. Instead of having to manually create buffers and the like, Eve has a completely automated system similar to the one used by Unity. For example, when you try to draw an object, you need things like object transformation matrices. If you then need more data, the limited size of push constants is no longer enough. Per Instance Params Eve, therefore, with its new rendering system, revolutionizes the way we write code, reduces bugs, and simplifies it. For each draw call sent to the GPU, the engine sends a buffer called InstanceParams to the GPU, which contains, for each drawing instance, its model matrix and its inverse. These matrices can then be retrieved using simple, custom functions ready for use in the shader. Per Render View Data For camera data, the process is similar. For each RenderView object, Eve allocates these objects on the GPU in a contiguous buffer from which the view, perspective, VP, and other matrices can be accessed. Custom Draw Info Data If you want to send custom data to the shader, each drawing function offers a pointer called DrawInfo that allows you to send data to the shader, which can then be accessed. If set to null, the shader will not send anything. GLM & A Flycam I also created a flycam and deprecated the Eve math package to use the glm one. Honestly, I want to focus on Eve and not the math, which is why I chose this option. Next Step: I still have some bugs to fix regarding making more than one draw call, but I’m working on it.
DEVLOG 29 - 1M Entities! Hi Stardance! Intro Since the last day, I’ve been working alone and have run into several issues… Most of them have been resolved. Some Tests So I started running some tests to check the speed of my new rendering system, and with 100,000 entities drawn to the screen with a single draw call, I was getting 30 FPS. After parallelizing the code a bit and reducing the copies, the results are now better: 100,000 entities with single draw calls get 50-60 FPS. 100,000 entities with a single instanced draw call get 230-250 FPS. 1,000,000 entities with a single instanced draw call get 30 FPS. What Need To Be Optimized Actually, I could optimize even more and double these FPS, but the current problem is that I’m calculating the matrices on the CPU side, so I’m doing a lot of calculations that currently take up a good portion of the necessary CPU time, about 50%. The idea would be to move all the work to the GPU in the future with compute shaders, thus significantly reducing the CPU load. I’ll see if I can do this… Maybe in a while, when I add full support for compute shaders. (I have a Ryzen 5 5600 X and an RX 6600) Rendering System Time: Not counting the matrices, the rendering cycle along with the Render Graph takes about 2-2.5 ms, almost all of which is spent on the Render Graph. I have also fixed some problems with Swapchain Recreation when the window is minimized. Problems With RenderDoc Five of these eight hours have been pure frustration, as I don’t understand why, but the app crashes on RenderDoc. Normally, on my PC it starts and works, but on RenderDoc it crashes… I’ve tried every way to understand the problem, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to. I’ll also test on other PCs to better understand the problem. Unfortunately, I don’t have time on my side, so I’ve had to put the issue aside for now…
DEVLOG 30 - Compute Shaders Hi Stardance! Intro I’ve finally implemented compute shaders—as the title suggests—alongside conducting some tests and reorganizing the project. Compute Shader Support I’ve added support for compute shaders, meaning they can now be used just like any other type of pass, whether graphics or transfer. Optimizations I’ve also utilized compute shaders internally within the engine to speed up matrix calculations; here are the results: With 100,000 entities using instanced rendering, I’m getting 800 FPS, up from the previous 250. With 1,000,000 entities using instanced rendering, I’m getting around 90 FPS, up from the previous 30. With 100,000 entities using independent draw calls, I’m getting around 90 FPS, up from the previous 30. I’d say the results speak for themselves, and I’m quite happy with these optimizations. As mentioned in the previous devlog, testing was performed on my PC, which is equipped with a Ryzen 5 5600X and an RX 6600. Swapchain & CMake I also made slight modifications to the swapchain recreation code to make it faster and reduce stuttering. Finally, I tidied up the CMakeLists file to make it more organized and prepare for the release. The video shows a scene with 1M entities rendered in real-time using instanced draw call at 90 FPS
DEVLOG 31 - It’s not my fault! Hi Stardance! Unlike the other devlogs, this one is very quick and simple. A Little Recap In devlog 29, I encountered some issues with RenderDoc, even though the app kept running fine and caused no problems outside of RenderDoc itself. What I Did After doing some online research, I discovered that RenderDoc has issues with AMD drivers, which can cause the app to crash. So, I decided to try AMD’s Radeon Developer Tools (a profiler similar to RenderDoc, designed specifically for AMD GPUs). No errors were reported and everything works perfectly, so the problem most likely lies in how AMD drivers interface with RenderDoc.
DEVLOG 32 - UI Support Hi Stardance, Intro I’ve been working on the UI lately, as I wanted to give the user a way to interact with the engine beyond just mouse and keyboard input. The UI in Eve I opted for Dear ImGui and created a lightweight wrapper that allows it to run within Eve. I stripped away some of the boilerplate code associated with the standard Begin and End calls, making it slightly simpler and safer to use than raw ImGui. I also added support for dockable windows. The video shows a scene with 1,000 cubes; thanks to the UI, you can modify their color, position, and rotation. You can also change the direction of the direct light. The code required by this UI is just five lines.
DEVLOG 33 - Meshes & Fixes Hi Stardance! Intro We’re getting closer to the release build of Eve! I have to say that with this devlog, the engine is practically finished and ready for shipping; I just need to tweak a few final details and we’re all set… Meshes: In this devlog, I worked on the mesh system—fleshing it out and making it functional—and added standard meshes to Eve: a cube, a UV sphere, an icosphere, a plane, and a quad. Some Bugs Fixed While implementing this, the program kept crashing for no apparent reason; after two hours of debugging, I found the error in the Render Graph—caused by the order of Eve’s internal passes—which is now fixed. Internal Shaders Organization I also embedded the engine’s internal shaders directly into the executable, so there’s no need to remember to include them alongside the executable when creating an app. The video shows the same UI as the previous devlog—featuring controls for color, rotation, cube position, and direct light direction—but this time, you can change the meshes of the “thousand-odd” cubes at runtime using the standard Eve meshes listed above, via a simple UI dropdown menu.
DEVLOG 34 - Icon, Windows & More Hi Stardance! Intro The release is getting close, so I’m tidying up a few final details; I’ve finally turned my attention to a slightly more relaxed and lighthearted part of the project. Engine Settings I added a method to start the engine that accepts configuration settings for how the app runs. You can also choose whether or not to enable VSync at runtime. Window Class I added a window management class that allows for various operations, such as toggling fullscreen mode and manually changing the resolution, position, title, etc. I also included a method to set the window icon using a PNG image. Eve’s Icon I also spent some time on Canva trying to create an icon—a logo—for Eve. After several attempts, I settled on the one in the attachment.
DEVLOG 35 - Documentation Hi Stardance! Intro I’ve finally finished writing the documentation for Eve—a rather tedious and repetitive process, but a necessary one. How The Docs Is Structured: Every part of the engine is documented; inside the docs folder, you’ll find instructions on how to launch the engine, along with subfolders for each component—graphics, input, window management, and so on. Next Last Steps: I still need to create the README and tidy up a few things in the project, as well as write instructions on how to configure Eve for use on one’s own PC… But after a whole summer, I’m finally close to shipping!
DEVLOG 36 - Black Hole! Hi Stardance! Intro I’ve been working really hard lately, and I think I’ve reached a milestone with Eve that I honestly never expected to hit. The project is finally complete; now I just need to click that nice button to ship it. I’ve spent this time working on the README, improving the documentation, fixing bugs, and building a demo using Eve. Eve Demo The demo is a gravity simulation featuring hundreds of thousands of entities orbiting a black hole. You can tweak various parameters—such as time, the black hole’s gravitational pull, lighting, colors, meshes, and much more. If you’d like to test it out, you can find it in the GitHub releases; there’s a ready-to-use .exe, or the source code if you’re on Linux—or if you simply want to understand how Eve works or make some modifications yourself. Problems Encountered While building the demo, I ran into—and have since resolved—some very frustrating bugs, such as memory corruption in the ECS caused by the continuous creation and destruction of entities and their components. I also added UI text support and implemented the ability to register “stages” belonging to classes or structs that can be called by the engine.
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Eve is a graphics engine written entirely in Vulkan , with the primary goal of learning Vulkan and C++ while simplifying their usage. Originally conceived as a simple, lightweight wrapper around Vulkan , Eve now includes: A Render Graph designed from scratch that leverages technologies such as memory aliasing (where multiple resources share the same memory space) and resource pooling (reusing resources across frames). It performs the core function of a Render Graph: by simply knowing how resources are utilized, it automatically issues the necessary synchronization barriers to the GPU. Developing the Render Graph was a grueling process, but it proved worthwhile in terms of both performance and the educational value of the experience. An ECS (Entity Component System) also designed from scratch, following the model of Unity’s DOTS ECS . Instead of scattering resources across VRAM—which slows down access due to constant memory jumps—game objects are organized into Archetypes. Components are distributed in contiguous memory batches, thereby minimizing cache misses. A rendering system that automates the insertion of transforms into buffers; these are subsequently processed into matrices via a compute shader and sent to the rendering shaders. It also features a material system that analyzes shader composition, looking for a struct named “Properties” that allows fields to be assigned by name from the C++ side. Support for the Slang shading language with a bindless system . Eve provides a file named Eve.slangh that simplifies and automates the retrieval of textures, buffers, and samplers from descriptors. Compute shader support is also included. An integrated, easy-to-use Input system inspired by Unity’s Input System , along with a lightweight UI wrapper that makes using Dear ImGui simpler and more intuitive. Eve also includes a demo featuring a gravitational simulation of thousands of entities orbiting a black hole, allowing various parameters to be adjusted in real-time....
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Over the past few days I have added and fixed and polished the last few features and I think the last commit ever to this project will give you an understanding to what I have done over the past few days and how I feel, here it is: Added it so you can exit the calculator easier just by typing \"exit\", added a new log to the about section and added completed text for after the completion date of: 19 of September 2026, removed a feature cause i wont have time to fulfill it and I have removed the under development text cause it's all done!!!!!!!!!!! :) Thank you to everyone who has followed this journey from day 1 to day 21! CYA!!!! :) , there ya go, this is the last devlog to this project and I am really proud of the way I have come and what I have learned over this period and yeah, that is 21 DAYS OF PYTHON , thank you all for following along and bye! :)"}, {"post_id": 69016, "ts": "2026-09-16T07:01:53Z", "hours": 0.5383, "text": "Days 15-17! Over the past few days I have addded a modderate amount of features and those are: a first working version of the calculator, more dev friendly spacing, bug fixes and another few new number guesser session stats. Anddthose were Days 15-17"}, {"post_id": 67526, "ts": "2026-09-13T17:20:38Z", "hours": 0.4069, "text": "Day 14! Finally got to the 2/3 milestone, ok, today I haven’t done too much again, but I have added a working most guesses counter and a buggy fewest guesses counter in the number guesser stats feature, but I have fixed a bug where if you haven’t played a number guesser game before in that session it would error but now it doesn’t. And that’s Day 14! :) p.s. sorry for light mode in images"}, {"post_id": 66221, "ts": "2026-09-11T22:11:54Z", "hours": 1.0608, "text": "Days 11-13! Over the past few days I have added a WORKING magic 8 ball and fixed all the bugs in it, I have added some stats to the number guesser and I have fixed some bugs that have been in the back of my mind"}, {"post_id": 64457, "ts": "2026-09-08T21:08:02Z", "hours": 0.2872, "text": "Day 10! Finally got to double digits, almost half way to the ultimate plushie goal, anyway today I have added: a basic feature under development feature, and I tested and fixed a few bugs, and that’s it really, anyway bye, That’s Day 10!"}, {"post_id": 63838, "ts": "2026-09-07T20:20:05Z", "hours": 1.2444, "text": "Day 7-9! over the past 3 days I have added a new Easter egg, I have fixed a lot of bugs and just other cool stuff, I have mainly over the past 3 days, been sailing and making my pc multi-bootable with 5 Linux distros and windows, then I’m gonna customise my Grub. And that’s Days 7-9!"}, {"post_id": 61769, "ts": "2026-09-04T20:47:28Z", "hours": 1.0753, "text": "Day 6! Well today I have brought back a big hour of development to the project, and today I have accomplished: finalised the countdown and started the number guesser game, I have added difficulty levels to the number guesser: Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme, and UNLIMITED; and I have made the difficulties actually work, I have added basic exit and checking code, and started range validation! And that’s Day 6!"}, {"post_id": 60782, "ts": "2026-09-03T11:33:47Z", "hours": 0.4056, "text": "Day 5!, Another day of barely anything to do with this project, but in fairness I have got my website running on Hackclub Nest, but Today I have added: emojis to the main menu and I have added Time up text to the Countdown feature, and that’s Day 5"}, {"post_id": 60164, "ts": "2026-09-02T11:27:55Z", "hours": 0.4672, "text": "Day 4! Again today I haven’t done a lot but I have done a cool feature; I have committed the first version of a Countdown timer, and I have fixed all known bugs and given it some flare as well as a small update to an Easter egg but I’m probably going to do some Roblox game dev for the rest of the day, and that’s Day 4! :)"}, {"post_id": 59445, "ts": "2026-09-01T09:26:43Z", "hours": 0.2992, "text": "Day 3! Today I haven’t done as much as usual, but I have done something; I have added the Dice Roller feature and tested and fixed the bugs in it, I gave the Dice Roller some flair by adding emojis, I’m probably gonna spend the rest of today doing some pc config, but that’s Day 3. :)"}, {"post_id": 59116, "ts": "2026-08-31T19:00:18Z", "hours": 2.7858, "text": "Day 2! Today I have fully completed and tested the modular foundation (a day early) and I have added a working day counter out of 21, I have finished laying out the about section and the main menu and I have updated the code behind “feature 5 is currently in development, please check again later” so its a lot simpler, I have also added comments to keep the big chunk of code organised, and FINALLY I have added and tested a coin flip mechanic that has an invalid option fallback similar to the main menu’s one, and I have shown the code to my Dad and he has officially approved!!! 😃"}, {"post_id": 58495, "ts": "2026-08-30T22:21:51Z", "hours": 1.1078, "text": "Day 1! I have coded a startup message and a main menu with a modular “if mode is” architecture for later features, the menu also has an Exit option that displays a goodbye message and quits the program, the program has a nice typewriter typing style and uses a few functions to save time as well as all the options are in a list to save time writing type(“…”) over and over again, I’d say a pretty successful day 1! :)"}]...
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Title: 21 Days of Python by @LPcomix123 | Stardanc Title: 21 Days of Python by @LPcomix123 | Stardance
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Day 1! I have coded a startup message and a main menu with a modular “if mode is” architecture for later features, the menu also has an Exit option that displays a goodbye message and quits the program, the program has a nice typewriter typing style and uses a few functions to save time as well as all the options are in a list to save time writing type(“…”) over and over again, I’d say a pretty successful day 1! :)
Day 2! Today I have fully completed and tested the modular foundation (a day early) and I have added a working day counter out of 21, I have finished laying out the about section and the main menu and I have updated the code behind “feature 5 is currently in development, please check again later” so its a lot simpler, I have also added comments to keep the big chunk of code organised, and FINALLY I have added and tested a coin flip mechanic that has an invalid option fallback similar to the main menu’s one, and I have shown the code to my Dad and he has officially approved!!! 😃
Day 3! Today I haven’t done as much as usual, but I have done something; I have added the Dice Roller feature and tested and fixed the bugs in it, I gave the Dice Roller some flair by adding emojis, I’m probably gonna spend the rest of today doing some pc config, but that’s Day 3. :)
Day 4! Again today I haven’t done a lot but I have done a cool feature; I have committed the first version of a Countdown timer, and I have fixed all known bugs and given it some flare as well as a small update to an Easter egg but I’m probably going to do some Roblox game dev for the rest of the day, and that’s Day 4! :)
Day 5!, Another day of barely anything to do with this project, but in fairness I have got my website running on Hackclub Nest, but Today I have added: emojis to the main menu and I have added Time up text to the Countdown feature, and that’s Day 5
Day 6! Well today I have brought back a big hour of development to the project, and today I have accomplished: finalised the countdown and started the number guesser game, I have added difficulty levels to the number guesser: Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme, and UNLIMITED; and I have made the difficulties actually work, I have added basic exit and checking code, and started range validation! And that’s Day 6!
Day 7-9! over the past 3 days I have added a new Easter egg, I have fixed a lot of bugs and just other cool stuff, I have mainly over the past 3 days, been sailing and making my pc multi-bootable with 5 Linux distros and windows, then I’m gonna customise my Grub. And that’s Days 7-9!
Day 10! Finally got to double digits, almost half way to the ultimate plushie goal, anyway today I have added: a basic feature under development feature, and I tested and fixed a few bugs, and that’s it really, anyway bye, That’s Day 10!
Days 11-13! Over the past few days I have added a WORKING magic 8 ball and fixed all the bugs in it, I have added some stats to the number guesser and I have fixed some bugs that have been in the back of my mind
Day 14! Finally got to the 2/3 milestone, ok, today I haven’t done too much again, but I have added a working most guesses counter and a buggy fewest guesses counter in the number guesser stats feature, but I have fixed a bug where if you haven’t played a number guesser game before in that session it would error but now it doesn’t. And that’s Day 14! :) p.s. sorry for light mode in images
Days 15-17! Over the past few days I have addded a modderate amount of features and those are: a first working version of the calculator, more dev friendly spacing, bug fixes and another few new number guesser session stats. Anddthose were Days 15-17
Days 18-21!!!!! Over the past few days I have added and fixed and polished the last few features and I think the last commit ever to this project will give you an understanding to what I have done over the past few days and how I feel, here it is: Added it so you can exit the calculator easier just by typing "exit", added a new log to the about section and added completed text for after the completion date of: 19 of September 2026, removed a feature cause i wont have time to fulfill it and I have removed the under development text cause it's all done!!!!!!!!!!! :) Thank you to everyone who has followed this journey from day 1 to day 21! CYA!!!! :) , there ya go, this is the last devlog to this project and I am really proud of the way I have come and what I have learned over this period and yeah, that is 21 DAYS OF PYTHON , thank you all for following along and bye! :)
I’ve added an executable for windows for the reviewer to the release page Here and updated the Installation guide in the readme Here and finally I have vibe-coded a cool website for the project Here and added a link to my main website Here and finally I have changed the banner, and that’s it! :)
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I made Sticky Streaks for the 21 Days of Python challenge. I started with a basic Python project and slowly added more features over the 21 days, including a day counter, coin flip, dice, number guesser, calculator, Magic 8 Ball, slot machine, unit converter and more. The hardest part was probably keeping myself working on it for all 21 days and fixing all the random bugs I came across. I’m really proud that I actually finished it and managed to keep adding things throughout the challenge. If you want to test it, just download the project and run main.py. Have fun :)...
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Title: My Basic Portfolio by @Darknow90 | Stardanc Title: My Basic Portfolio by @Darknow90 | Stardance
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Devlog #1: Sorry , I don’t have a lot of time today 😭. I just set up my index and link the js ,css and my pages of projects…
DevLog #2 : I’m working on the logic of the js code to switch on each text without make other page but it’s difficult…
DevLog #3 : I found the problem in my code thanks to the comments 🤣. Now I’m trying to improve the aesthetics, but I really don’t see how, lol.
DevLog #4 : I worked on the css and now I can understand more things ! It’s not very beautiful but for now It’s okay.
DevLog #5 : Working on css but it’s impossible to make a rainbow animation like 90s 😭
DevLog #6: Hehe NyanCat is here now 🤣. Anything to add at my page ?
DevLog #7 : I restructured the code a bit and added an icon in front of the bar, but that last session wasn’t very productive… I think I’ll submit my project at this stage and keep improving it once I have new ideas!
DevLog #8 : I made the Readme and I’m ready to ship my project now !
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I’m very happy to finish this project , I made : -3 categories -A pages for my project -2 pages about me Thanks you for this challenge !...
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[{"post_id": 71403, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71403, "ts": "2026-09-20T19:14:18Z", "hours": 1.6564, "text": "SO MUCH CODING DONE - did not get to record this sadly and took a long break but me and my friend are back at it now and we’re almost completely done with everything on his side(the 3d modeling) and my side(the coding). Below are 4/8 of the scripts that i’ve made so far."}, {"post_id": 32774, "ts": "2026-07-22T04:41:10Z", "hours": 6.6297, "text": "Devlog 4: Worked on actually coding the logic i explained in the previous devlog, coding went smooth with minimal issues. Only issue is if this will actually work when i am able to get funding for the actual hardware, I adjusted and researched a lot to make sure the code I’m creating would be compatible with the hardware I get. I also was able to create some extra logic ideas to patch up issues such as a system where it remembers areas it has already scanned and can use them to readjust and drifting that may have occurred with the data. Also was able to make it make decisions on where to fly and its overall flight direction although it still needs some adjusting for an accurate and efficient flight path. -Next time I work I’ll have to connect it to the flight script so It can actually command the flight controller to do stuff as well as finalize the flight paths. P.S. I also need to fix the drift correct system."}, {"post_id": 32584, "ts": "2026-07-21T21:08:01Z", "hours": 11.575, "text": "Devlog 3: We started working on our own custom SLAM from scratch for a roomba styled tracking system where the autonomous drone already knows where it has already searched The actual coding wasn’t completed very much but we fully understand how the whole system logic will work and what we have to code. To summarize it uses the flight controllers outputs like its yaw, position, and velocity to calculate an initial pose, then creates creates a grid of boxes that contain data to hold status like free, unknown, and blocked based off of the coordinates from our lidar data we converted. It then compares the map of lidar scans that moves based off the pose to the current scan, slowly making slight adjustments to find how much the drone actually moved in real life. This data is then used and converted into another grid that stores only where the drone has been and is used for the whole logic of not checking the same place over and over again."}, {"post_id": 29918, "ts": "2026-07-17T03:00:14Z", "hours": 5.0744, "text": "Devlog #2: Today focused on advancing both the software and mechanical portions of the autonomous trash collection drone. On the software side, the LiDAR subsystem was completed. The Python script for the RPLIDAR C1 was finalized, including initialization, communication with the sensor, and collection of scan data. The script now reads distance measurements and angles from the LiDAR, providing the foundation for future obstacle detection and avoidance logic. Time was also spent organizing the software architecture and researching the required Python libraries for each subsystem of the drone. The project dependencies were separated into categories for computer vision, sensor processing, flight control, and networking, and virtual development environments were configured and tested to prepare for future development. On the mechanical side, significant progress was made on the robotic gripper assembly. Most of the CAD modeling for the gripper arm was completed, including the overall geometry, servo mounting, gear layout, and finger mechanism. Existing component dimensions were reviewed to ensure compatibility with the DS3218 servo, bearings, and planned fasteners. The gripper design is now largely complete and serves as the primary end effector for the drone’s trash collection system. Overall, today’s work established a solid foundation for both the software and hardware systems. The LiDAR subsystem is now operational at the software level, the project’s development environments are organized for continued programming, and the gripper assembly has reached an advanced stage of mechanical design. These milestones prepare the project for integration of obstacle avoidance, object detection, and physical manipulation in future development sessions."}, {"post_id": 28502, "ts": "2026-07-14T19:54:24Z", "hours": 1.7919, "text": "Dev Log #1 – Today I continued working on the mechanical design of the autonomous trash-collecting drone, focusing on the robotic arm and gripper assembly. The main objective was to determine the overall dimensions of the arm, select appropriate hardware, and make design decisions before continuing the CAD model. During today’s work, I finalized the decision to use three DS3218 high-torque servos throughout the robotic arm, including the gripper. Although a smaller servo was considered for the claw, I decided to use the same servo for all three joints to simplify the design, reduce the number of different components, and make future maintenance easier. I also continued determining the dimensions of the upper arm, forearm, and gripper based on the expected payload and overall size of the drone. The arm will be constructed from CF PETG using a lightweight truss-style structure to maximize rigidity while minimizing weight. I researched the DS3218 servo output shaft and confirmed that it uses a 25T spline, which will be used for the servo-driven joints. I also standardized the hardware by selecting M3 machine screws for servo mounting and the majority of the structural connections throughout the arm. A large portion of today’s work focused on the gripper mechanism. After evaluating several concepts, I decided to use a three-gear synchronized design consisting of one servo-driven center gear and two mirrored gears connected to each finger so that both fingers open and close together. I also selected a 1:1 gear ratio and began determining appropriate gear sizes and the overall dimensions of the gripper housing to fit the DS3218 servo. In addition to the mechanical design, I estimated the overall weight of the drone using the currently selected components to ensure the chosen propulsion system should be capable of lifting both the aircraft and its expected payload. This estimate will continue to be refined as the CAD model progresses and additional components are finalized. The next stage of development will focus on continuing the CAD model of the gripper, finalizing the gear layout, finger dimensions, and mounting points, and completing the remaining mechanical details of the robotic arm before beginning assembly of the full system."}]...
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Title: Autonomous Trash Drone by @randymo | Starda Title: Autonomous Trash Drone by @randymo | Stardance
Devlogs:
Dev Log #1 – Today I continued working on the mechanical design of the autonomous trash-collecting drone, focusing on the robotic arm and gripper assembly. The main objective was to determine the overall dimensions of the arm, select appropriate hardware, and make design decisions before continuing the CAD model. During today’s work, I finalized the decision to use three DS3218 high-torque servos throughout the robotic arm, including the gripper. Although a smaller servo was considered for the claw, I decided to use the same servo for all three joints to simplify the design, reduce the number of different components, and make future maintenance easier. I also continued determining the dimensions of the upper arm, forearm, and gripper based on the expected payload and overall size of the drone. The arm will be constructed from CF PETG using a lightweight truss-style structure to maximize rigidity while minimizing weight. I researched the DS3218 servo output shaft and confirmed that it uses a 25T spline, which will be used for the servo-driven joints. I also standardized the hardware by selecting M3 machine screws for servo mounting and the majority of the structural connections throughout the arm. A large portion of today’s work focused on the gripper mechanism. After evaluating several concepts, I decided to use a three-gear synchronized design consisting of one servo-driven center gear and two mirrored gears connected to each finger so that both fingers open and close together. I also selected a 1:1 gear ratio and began determining appropriate gear sizes and the overall dimensions of the gripper housing to fit the DS3218 servo. In addition to the mechanical design, I estimated the overall weight of the drone using the currently selected components to ensure the chosen propulsion system should be capable of lifting both the aircraft and its expected payload. This estimate will continue to be refined as the CAD model progresses and additional components are finalized. The next stage of development will focus on continuing the CAD model of the gripper, finalizing the gear layout, finger dimensions, and mounting points, and completing the remaining mechanical details of the robotic arm before beginning assembly of the full system.
Devlog #2: Today focused on advancing both the software and mechanical portions of the autonomous trash collection drone. On the software side, the LiDAR subsystem was completed. The Python script for the RPLIDAR C1 was finalized, including initialization, communication with the sensor, and collection of scan data. The script now reads distance measurements and angles from the LiDAR, providing the foundation for future obstacle detection and avoidance logic. Time was also spent organizing the software architecture and researching the required Python libraries for each subsystem of the drone. The project dependencies were separated into categories for computer vision, sensor processing, flight control, and networking, and virtual development environments were configured and tested to prepare for future development. On the mechanical side, significant progress was made on the robotic gripper assembly. Most of the CAD modeling for the gripper arm was completed, including the overall geometry, servo mounting, gear layout, and finger mechanism. Existing component dimensions were reviewed to ensure compatibility with the DS3218 servo, bearings, and planned fasteners. The gripper design is now largely complete and serves as the primary end effector for the drone’s trash collection system. Overall, today’s work established a solid foundation for both the software and hardware systems. The LiDAR subsystem is now operational at the software level, the project’s development environments are organized for continued programming, and the gripper assembly has reached an advanced stage of mechanical design. These milestones prepare the project for integration of obstacle avoidance, object detection, and physical manipulation in future development sessions.
Devlog 3: We started working on our own custom SLAM from scratch for a roomba styled tracking system where the autonomous drone already knows where it has already searched The actual coding wasn’t completed very much but we fully understand how the whole system logic will work and what we have to code. To summarize it uses the flight controllers outputs like its yaw, position, and velocity to calculate an initial pose, then creates creates a grid of boxes that contain data to hold status like free, unknown, and blocked based off of the coordinates from our lidar data we converted. It then compares the map of lidar scans that moves based off the pose to the current scan, slowly making slight adjustments to find how much the drone actually moved in real life. This data is then used and converted into another grid that stores only where the drone has been and is used for the whole logic of not checking the same place over and over again.
Devlog 4: Worked on actually coding the logic i explained in the previous devlog, coding went smooth with minimal issues. Only issue is if this will actually work when i am able to get funding for the actual hardware, I adjusted and researched a lot to make sure the code I’m creating would be compatible with the hardware I get. I also was able to create some extra logic ideas to patch up issues such as a system where it remembers areas it has already scanned and can use them to readjust and drifting that may have occurred with the data. Also was able to make it make decisions on where to fly and its overall flight direction although it still needs some adjusting for an accurate and efficient flight path. -Next time I work I’ll have to connect it to the flight script so It can actually command the flight controller to do stuff as well as finalize the flight paths. P.S. I also need to fix the drift correct system.
SO MUCH CODING DONE - did not get to record this sadly and took a long break but me and my friend are back at it now and we’re almost completely done with everything on his side(the 3d modeling) and my side(the coding). Below are 4/8 of the scripts that i’ve made so far....
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SLI(Sign Language Interpreter) by @krishkr372 | St SLI(Sign Language Interpreter) by @krishkr372 | Stardance...
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Title: SLI(Sign Language Interpreter) by @krishkr3 Title: SLI(Sign Language Interpreter) by @krishkr372 | Stardance
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deployed my first app in streamlit to learn how to deploy things online
learning javaScript for UAC project...
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My Personal Site by @UmarFarooq | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71382, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71382, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:36:06Z", "hours": 0.395, "text": "Completed my personal site. I’ve added two more sections that are “About” and “Skills” section."}, {"post_id": 71360, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:05:44Z", "hours": 0.7536, "text": "Welcome to the first devlog of my personal site. I have first setup a vite project, then created a header and provided links of my social profiles in header. Plus, I’ve created a projects section to showcase my projects."}]...
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Title: My Personal Site by @UmarFarooq | Stardance Title: My Personal Site by @UmarFarooq | Stardance
Devlogs:
Welcome to the first devlog of my personal site. I have first setup a vite project, then created a header and provided links of my social profiles in header. Plus, I’ve created a projects section to showcase my projects.
Completed my personal site. I’ve added two more sections that are “About” and “Skills” section.
Ships:
Its my personal site that I have created for Hackclub Stardance Challenge. Sections: Header: Name and social links About Skills: Frontend, Backend, Database Projects: Live Demo and source code links for each project Tech Stack: React (Vite) TailwindCSS for styling react-icons for icons...
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Title: Untitled by @oMeatball | Stardance
Devlogs Title: Untitled by @oMeatball | Stardance
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HabitApp...
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ESP32 MusicPlayer by @gabriel_ferreira | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71379, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71379, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:32:46Z", "hours": 1.9367, "text": "Fixing a runtime error The ESP32 memory is limited and is reaching an end, the system is rebooting because it is running out of memory. Im trying to fix this without losing the music quality. Also i made the 3d models for the project, i just need add it on the github (In the meantime i forgot how to use freecad…)."}, {"post_id": 48630, "ts": "2026-08-17T03:13:21Z", "hours": 9.8831, "text": "Hi everyone, basically what is that project: It is a offline music player. The Stack is: A esp32 stream via bluetooth classic A2DP audio MP3 from a SD card to a bluetooth device.Ik there is a lot of devices that do the same, but isnt more funny build it instead of just buying?Why i made It? Because i wanted to listen music while i was at school, but i had a problem: my school doesnt allow smartphones / eletronics, so i couldnt just bring a MP3 player and listen. I remember exactly How i was in that moment, i was in a art class very very bored, so i thought: Why not just create one player all by myself? So i made It.I do not know much about C/C++ to build one all by myself, so i used codex and claude code to develop the Code while i was analising outputs and thinking things that If i tried send to a AI my credits would be gone.I had a Lot of problems while developing, even using AI, maybe because i a free tier at them. Some of the problems:For some reason the music was Very Very Very laggy, and none AI could help me with that, i was trying different methods to solve it (without AI for a period bc i ran out of credits) until i realised that it wasnt working, so i stopped and thinked: What make the music being laggy? I noticed that there was 2 problems going: the music was with some delays at each stream and it was cutting.Afther a while i asked AI about it and realised that the cutting was about RAM, so i asked AI to add a Idea: Create read zones, where each zone reads a different amount of data from the sdcard, and when it is near the max it stops for a while. It solved the cutting problem (that was Just some data from the music being lost bc it was reading more than it could store in memory) (i was thinking that the music was corrupted bc it was distorced, i checked the way that the Code was converting the MP3 into bytes for like 3 hours).But i still was having the delay problem: At first i thought it was bc of some delay, but wasnt… So i thought “what makes a chip slow?”, then I reached at clock speed. I changed from 40MHZ to 240MHZ, that solved the problem. I also had a problem with the bluetooth connection, it Just wasnt connecting and i nearly quit the project. The problem was Just the way it was connecting and responding the data sent from the bt device. That project taught me a Lot about computers, even with me just thinking and not programming. It taught me about RAM, clock speed, different kinds of connection, optimization, various ways of storing a music, how to make a good prompt, what is the difference between analogic and digital signals, and something that i even used in a essay: how to belance consume, limit, speed and production rate. That can be used in various cases, in the project was about How many the bt device consumes, how fast the ESP should decode the data, How fast it should reais from the sdcard and How many resources (ram) i should allocate based on the others."}]...
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Title: ESP32 MusicPlayer by @gabriel_ferreira | St Title: ESP32 MusicPlayer by @gabriel_ferreira | Stardance
Devlogs:
Hi everyone, basically what is that project: It is a offline music player. The Stack is: A esp32 stream via bluetooth classic A2DP audio MP3 from a SD card to a bluetooth device.Ik there is a lot of devices that do the same, but isnt more funny build it instead of just buying?Why i made It? Because i wanted to listen music while i was at school, but i had a problem: my school doesnt allow smartphones / eletronics, so i couldnt just bring a MP3 player and listen. I remember exactly How i was in that moment, i was in a art class very very bored, so i thought: Why not just create one player all by myself? So i made It.I do not know much about C/C++ to build one all by myself, so i used codex and claude code to develop the Code while i was analising outputs and thinking things that If i tried send to a AI my credits would be gone.I had a Lot of problems while developing, even using AI, maybe because i a free tier at them. Some of the problems:For some reason the music was Very Very Very laggy, and none AI could help me with that, i was trying different methods to solve it (without AI for a period bc i ran out of credits) until i realised that it wasnt working, so i stopped and thinked: What make the music being laggy? I noticed that there was 2 problems going: the music was with some delays at each stream and it was cutting.Afther a while i asked AI about it and realised that the cutting was about RAM, so i asked AI to add a Idea: Create read zones, where each zone reads a different amount of data from the sdcard, and when it is near the max it stops for a while. It solved the cutting problem (that was Just some data from the music being lost bc it was reading more than it could store in memory) (i was thinking that the music was corrupted bc it was distorced, i checked the way that the Code was converting the MP3 into bytes for like 3 hours).But i still was having the delay problem: At first i thought it was bc of some delay, but wasnt… So i thought “what makes a chip slow?”, then I reached at clock speed. I changed from 40MHZ to 240MHZ, that solved the problem. I also had a problem with the bluetooth connection, it Just wasnt connecting and i nearly quit the project. The problem was Just the way it was connecting and responding the data sent from the bt device. That project taught me a Lot about computers, even with me just thinking and not programming. It taught me about RAM, clock speed, different kinds of connection, optimization, various ways of storing a music, how to make a good prompt, what is the difference between analogic and digital signals, and something that i even used in a essay: how to belance consume, limit, speed and production rate. That can be used in various cases, in the project was about How many the bt device consumes, how fast the ESP should decode the data, How fast it should reais from the sdcard and How many resources (ram) i should allocate based on the others.
Fixing a runtime error The ESP32 memory is limited and is reaching an end, the system is rebooting because it is running out of memory. Im trying to fix this without losing the music quality. Also i made the 3d models for the project, i just need add it on the github (In the meantime i forgot how to use freecad…)....
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My very own WebOS by @Alyssa889 | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71372, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71372, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:26:39Z", "hours": 0.3492, "text": "Added a ending message to my WebOs and changed the colors of the text. I think it’s ready to ship!"}, {"post_id": 71352, "ts": "2026-09-20T17:55:09Z", "hours": 0.5172, "text": "Styling my WebOS to make it unique"}, {"post_id": 71323, "ts": "2026-09-20T17:02:21Z", "hours": 0.3956, "text": "Editing the draggable window through JS"}, {"post_id": 70738, "ts": "2026-09-19T17:52:26Z", "hours": 1.1453, "text": "Finishing my WebOS and finally got Hackatime to work"}]...
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Title: My very own WebOS by @Alyssa889 | Stardance Title: My very own WebOS by @Alyssa889 | Stardance
Devlogs:
Finishing my WebOS and finally got Hackatime to work
Editing the draggable window through JS
Styling my WebOS to make it unique
Added a ending message to my WebOs and changed the colors of the text. I think it’s ready to ship!
Ships:
I made my very Own WebOs! It was so fun following the guide and I enjoyed it so much! It was hard to follow the Javascript steps because I’m new to coding but I was able to follow. Hopefully there are no bugs or problems with it!...
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Rural Coders Society by @-Sophie- | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71368, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71368, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:18:33Z", "hours": 1.7058, "text": "FINISHED THE SITE!! I added mobile compatibility The site was looking really good until someone looked on it on their phone or something other than a desktop, so this was the final element to ship it! No more fixed widths The fixed widths, I found, were the culprit for all the breaking when the website was viewed in other dimensions, so I made use of sm:some property and md:some property and lg:some property in tailwind and also w-full and max-w-some number to make the cards flexible depending on the dimensions it’s viewed from NAVBAR I’m really proud of this because I used useState for the first time on an actual website to create the hamburger navigation thing. It opens like a set of links if you click it and the text changes from a three-line hamburger thing to an x. useState is actually amazing so many use cases Challenges The main challenge was just tweaking what text/font sizes should go with sm/md/lg displays–just a lot of trial and error Another challenge was making the hamburger opening look good because the background was only coloring to the height of the navbar,, I realized that I needed to move the appearing navigation outside of the navbar and it worked wonders Future additions Just if the nonprofit gets more metrics or after outreach initiatives it’s apparent we’re missing some important content. but it’s done and I’m going to ship this!!"}, {"post_id": 66091, "ts": "2026-09-11T17:49:29Z", "hours": 1.1672, "text": "Finished About Me Page + program page struggles Finished the about me! It’ s a simple about me page; I got inspiration from other NPO about me pages online! Program Page work in progress I’m trying to use the same components across two pages for information cards on the programs we do, but the cards need to be two different heights. I’ve been hacking at this for a while but I’m going to rest before I try resolving this problem again :’))))) (as you can see the images go off the cards for this second component. I want each card to be a standardized height but differ across pages. gl to me in the future lol) Future additions After I finish adjusting these card heights, my website will be finished! I just need to hook it to our website domain and replace our outdated website!! yayyy"}, {"post_id": 59083, "ts": "2026-08-31T18:09:12Z", "hours": 2.5033, "text": "Added project carousel! React component I used React to make a reusable image carousel thing where you can pass an array of photos as an argument and it will put it into the the SplideJS slides Used SplideJS again Added a featured projects carousel that has some cool projects that our Code Without Borders Bootcamp participants made!! Added arrows to the carousel too Tailwind Added a gradient background for aesthetic purposes :) Challenges I generally had a hard time figuring out how to style the features component–it was really looking rough to start with but we landed on something 😭 I think the gradient helped a lot Additional information I also tweaked styling for the rest of the webpage I added some join buttons and linked the donation page Updated the impact numbers Future additions About to add the proper join form and also get started on the about us page :D"}, {"post_id": 29809, "ts": "2026-07-16T23:01:41Z", "hours": 1.1256, "text": "Added footer + more I added a footer to the home page to make it feel more complete Number animations now the number statistics animate when you scroll upon them. so i attached a video to show u what that looks like. I used the NumberFlow React library–it was pretty intuitive itself but then i had to use useState, useEffect, and useRef hooks and understand how to use those and how to defer the useEffect until the window detects it 😭 😭 u can do it with the native .getBoundingClientRect tho and u have to do it to an element you want to be the trigger, in my case i made the card the trigger, so if it shows then the animation will happen. and then make sure it’s less than window.innerHeight and element’s position.bottom must be greater than 0, which means that the element is below the top edge of ur screen holy yap but this is how i teach myself bc that was something new for me 😭"}, {"post_id": 28588, "ts": "2026-07-14T22:37:09Z", "hours": 0.6417, "text": "Added card types and prop types to specify the kind of card design you want I added different card types, and so now you can switch between them. So CardGrid is extra reusable LOL This is through capitalized variables that I just learned! I could work logic between choosing components using a capitalized variable (yk the one that uses PascalCase)"}, {"post_id": 28564, "ts": "2026-07-14T21:53:38Z", "hours": 0.3922, "text": "Reworked some card grid component logic I heard it’s better to create an array of the props rather than an array of the cards, so after struggling a bit I got to do it the conventional way with array mapping! Not entirely sure what the individual mapping keys are for but I will look more deeply into that. It says online that you have to keep keys stable so that React knows which item you’re referencing but don’t totally understand why it would need to know that lol"}, {"post_id": 28551, "ts": "2026-07-14T21:28:11Z", "hours": 0.8739, "text": "Card Component + Card Grid Both are reusable! Card Component I create InfoCard.jsx component which makes these light blue cards. I used props for the first time, so you can pass in an argument making these components completely reusable across the platform! Card Grid I created an array of cards and then passed them through the Card Grid. I made it so that the cols prop you pass in leads to the amount of columns created with Tailwind CSS by assigning 1 to “grid-col-1” etc etc in an object and then using that for part of the Tailwind CSS for the Card Grid. super simple logic but im still proud nevertheless LOL"}, {"post_id": 26415, "ts": "2026-07-11T06:05:56Z", "hours": 1.3447, "text": "I implemented Splide JS into the website so it could create this photo gallery carousel!! i’m so proud of it! and the syntax for Splide was surprisingly easy and intuitive–I followed a tutorial on Medium to understand how to use it. The home page is already looking more polished."}, {"post_id": 26386, "ts": "2026-07-11T04:30:11Z", "hours": 1.0606, "text": "Added a hero to the website. It’s currently a placeholder, I’m working on a swiping photo gallery as the hero. I also styled everything with tailwind-css because I’m trying to get used to it."}, {"post_id": 26290, "ts": "2026-07-11T00:20:44Z", "hours": 0.8678, "text": "Why is react so painful? anyhow I made a router without styling yet with react-router-dom and so yeah that’s progress :’). I’m getting used to the react-router-dom way of things and having to configure main.jsx and stuff it’s so painful LOL"}]...
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Why is react so painful? anyhow I made a router without styling yet with react-router-dom and so yeah that’s progress :’). I’m getting used to the react-router-dom way of things and having to configure main.jsx and stuff it’s so painful LOL
Added a hero to the website. It’s currently a placeholder, I’m working on a swiping photo gallery as the hero. I also styled everything with tailwind-css because I’m trying to get used to it.
I implemented Splide JS into the website so it could create this photo gallery carousel!! i’m so proud of it! and the syntax for Splide was surprisingly easy and intuitive–I followed a tutorial on Medium to understand how to use it. The home page is already looking more polished.
Card Component + Card Grid Both are reusable! Card Component I create InfoCard.jsx component which makes these light blue cards. I used props for the first time, so you can pass in an argument making these components completely reusable across the platform! Card Grid I created an array of cards and then passed them through the Card Grid. I made it so that the cols prop you pass in leads to the amount of columns created with Tailwind CSS by assigning 1 to “grid-col-1” etc etc in an object and then using that for part of the Tailwind CSS for the Card Grid. super simple logic but im still proud nevertheless LOL
Reworked some card grid component logic I heard it’s better to create an array of the props rather than an array of the cards, so after struggling a bit I got to do it the conventional way with array mapping! Not entirely sure what the individual mapping keys are for but I will look more deeply into that. It says online that you have to keep keys stable so that React knows which item you’re referencing but don’t totally understand why it would need to know that lol
Added card types and prop types to specify the kind of card design you want I added different card types, and so now you can switch between them. So CardGrid is extra reusable LOL This is through capitalized variables that I just learned! I could work logic between choosing components using a capitalized variable (yk the one that uses PascalCase)
Added footer + more I added a footer to the home page to make it feel more complete Number animations now the number statistics animate when you scroll upon them. so i attached a video to show u what that looks like. I used the NumberFlow React library–it was pretty intuitive itself but then i had to use useState, useEffect, and useRef hooks and understand how to use those and how to defer the useEffect until the window detects it 😭 😭 u can do it with the native .getBoundingClientRect tho and u have to do it to an element you want to be the trigger, in my case i made the card the trigger, so if it shows then the animation will happen. and then make sure it’s less than window.innerHeight and element’s position.bottom must be greater than 0, which means that the element is below the top edge of ur screen holy yap but this is how i teach myself bc that was something new for me 😭
Added project carousel! React component I used React to make a reusable image carousel thing where you can pass an array of photos as an argument and it will put it into the the SplideJS slides Used SplideJS again Added a featured projects carousel that has some cool projects that our Code Without Borders Bootcamp participants made!! Added arrows to the carousel too Tailwind Added a gradient background for aesthetic purposes :) Challenges I generally had a hard time figuring out how to style the features component–it was really looking rough to start with but we landed on something 😭 I think the gradient helped a lot Additional information I also tweaked styling for the rest of the webpage I added some join buttons and linked the donation page Updated the impact numbers Future additions About to add the proper join form and also get started on the about us page :D
Finished About Me Page + program page struggles Finished the about me! It’ s a simple about me page; I got inspiration from other NPO about me pages online! Program Page work in progress I’m trying to use the same components across two pages for information cards on the programs we do, but the cards need to be two different heights. I’ve been hacking at this for a while but I’m going to rest before I try resolving this problem again :’))))) (as you can see the images go off the cards for this second component. I want each card to be a standardized height but differ across pages. gl to me in the future lol) Future additions After I finish adjusting these card heights, my website will be finished! I just need to hook it to our website domain and replace our outdated website!! yayyy
FINISHED THE SITE!! I added mobile compatibility The site was looking really good until someone looked on it on their phone or something other than a desktop, so this was the final element to ship it! No more fixed widths The fixed widths, I found, were the culprit for all the breaking when the website was viewed in other dimensions, so I made use of sm:some property and md:some property and lg:some property in tailwind and also w-full and max-w-some number to make the cards flexible depending on the dimensions it’s viewed from NAVBAR I’m really proud of this because I used useState for the first time on an actual website to create the hamburger navigation thing. It opens like a set of links if you click it and the text changes from a three-line hamburger thing to an x. useState is actually amazing so many use cases Challenges The main challenge was just tweaking what text/font sizes should go with sm/md/lg displays–just a lot of trial and error Another challenge was making the hamburger opening look good because the background was only coloring to the height of the navbar,, I realized that I needed to move the appearing navigation outside of the navbar and it worked wonders Future additions Just if the nonprofit gets more metrics or after outreach initiatives it’s apparent we’re missing some important content. but it’s done and I’m going to ship this!!
Ships:
I made a revamped webpage for Rural Coders Society, a fiscally sponsored project under Hack Club! This was my first time using full blown React for an actual project, so there was a huge learning curve. But I’m really proud with how it turned out! Challenges: Using external libraries like NumberFlow and SplideJS for the first time (lots of documentation to read D:) Gauging what I should make a component and what I should just put on the page Making the card system modular (esp for different amounts of content and such) and streamlining the process of adding cards to the website Using useState for the first (practical) time to make a navbar :0 What I’m proud of: I’m proud that I overcame these challenges despite it being discouraging at times How I was able successfully integrate external libraries and troubleshoot through card issues and being stubborn to not use AI to debug (it was tempting but I know I wouldn’t learn) Using TailwindCSS for the first time and it’s actually so good I don’t think I can return to regular CSS anymore I’m glad I was able to reference other sites on the web and somewhat replicate it with react and tailwind with my own creativity on my own page Using and understanding how to use react routes and Link elements You can check the page out at www.ruralcoderssociety.org ! Thanks for reading :))))...
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Title: Bench Power Supply by @HexFud | Stardance
Title: Bench Power Supply by @HexFud | Stardance
Devlogs:
I am working on a simple and low cost bench power supply that can be affordable and safe to use. I started to make the schematic and the pcb.
Checked the final schematic and PCB and made some modifications. I also designed the case for it (entirely 3d printable.
Big update! I thought about the project and I dind’t really like it that much so I did an upgrade: now the bench power supply is smart ! I added an esp32, removed standard potentiometers and replaced them with rotary encoders. I sitll need to complete the shcematic and organize it but this is a big step ahead!
Yippie ! Now the PCB looks more “filled”, I implemented new security measures and checked every connection to be sure it will work after fabbricating it...
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You can now set NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as your new tab wallpaper! With this update, a new settings menu has also been added, where you can change between the NASA APOD or onFocus’s default wallpaper; Aurora Blobs. due to the randomized nature of the NASA APOD, this can create problems with the visibility of on-screen texts and images, cuz some pictures may be brighter or darker than others. thats why, when in NASA APOD wallpaper mode, a dimming config will appear in settings, allowing you to get the image to look just right in relation to the other on-screen elements. I have also added into the settings menu the config to set a different search engine other than duckyduckygooo. you can choose between a set of engines in a dropdown, or add a link to a custom search engine. you may call this the first actual release of onFocus! this version is going to get shipped. but, a second ship will start development immediately afterwards, with new features to enhance your experience!"}, {"post_id": 68470, "ts": "2026-09-15T05:10:29Z", "hours": 2.9053, "text": "The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 4: ITS ALIVEEE sooo slight detour… I delayed the NASA APOD thingy to prioritize getting onFocus’s main features up and running. because why if no focus features, why focus shaped? so yea! now it’s an actually useable new tab replacement for your current one! the focus features have been added. this includes your task/focus creator, pomodoro timer, and focus history. your very important and essential search bar has also been added, with duckygo as the default search engine. expect a custom search engine selector in a future update! isnt it so fun when you are falling asleep while programming and you make a typo and dont realize you did until oh wow why is my code not working?? yea i find that EXTREMELY funn… next up for tomorrow’s me to deal with: i’m finally getting the NASA APOD wallpaper setting up and running. once that’s done, imma ship this thing’s first release. but that wont be the end, imma ship again afterwards with more features!!"}, {"post_id": 68297, "ts": "2026-09-14T21:36:18Z", "hours": 2.9986, "text": "The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 3: onFocus invades your browser, muehehe guysss, finally, tangible progress has been made! with the addition of the Manifest V3, alongside other configs, onFocus can now be installed as an extension on Chromium-based browsers in extension developer mode and take over your (allegedly) very bloated and time-consuming new tab! For our fellow non-Chromium browser users, you may set the live demo link as your homepage, cuz custom extension installs are just temporary (one browser restart and they be gone) and for the possibility of permanent installs i would have to get it signed, and that would take too long… the codebase is still one for both the extension and website, with a small storage layer that quietly uses chrome.storage inside the extension and localStorage on the web. with this update, a semi-functional UI has also been added to onFocus. It features a time-triggered greeter and a clock, as well as a background with three CSS-animated blobs. soo cool!! for them to move and breathe around, you need to enable animation effects in your OS, otherwise they gonna stay still the whole time. next, I will start working on getting NASA’s APOD as a background option, so you can choose between that and the onFocus blobs!"}, {"post_id": 67847, "ts": "2026-09-14T03:40:23Z", "hours": 0.3303, "text": "The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 2: Graphicssss most of the work on onFocus today went to creating its graphical identity: logos, wordmarks, etcc! Took time to settle on colors and designs, but ended with something I feel very happy with! Its logo icon features a crescent moon with a star, to represent focus and late-night work sessions. The color palette chosen gives it a “minty clean” feeling, just like our (planned) UI! main issue today involved the fact that I used live text on the wordmark when designing it in Affinity, so when exported to SVG, if the host device didn’t have the custom font, it would look horrible in a fallback sans-serif, and thats putting it lightly. So I just ended up using PNGs for all designs to avoid a big headache… also dealt with few canvas dimension issues and embedded bitmaps with no actual paths in supposed “vector” icons, but nothing beyond that. Once all the graphics were ready, they were added to the GitHub README, the placeholder in the live demo, and wherever necessary! now, it doesn’t look stale and boring! and thats funn! next up, we return to work on the actual new tab itself! we’ll prepare the Manifest V3 extension wrapper, so onFocus can actually take over a new tab page and finally give you that much needed focus!"}, {"post_id": 67087, "ts": "2026-09-13T04:25:02Z", "hours": 1.6325, "text": "The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 1: Humble Beginnings welcome to the development of onFocus, a new tab page that helps you keep your mind where your work is, instead of on the distractions killing our chances of becoming responsible human beings. you’ll be able to set a focus session, run a timer against it, and get weekly reports on where your time actually went. Time runs and waits for nobody, yk! as with any project, work today involved getting the whole structure and basics up and running, so a lot of scaffolding, cleaning, configuring, ETCCC. as we all know, that’s E V E R Y B O D Y ’ S favorite part, so funnnnn… few issues here and there, biggest one being when I had to install node through VS Code terminal and then it refused to accept it existed, so every new terminal window was getting a “snapshot” from before the install, until VS Code got its little restart. as for important decisions, today was decided that onFocus should exist and run as both a website and as a browser extension for mass access, and those live at completely different URLs, so every asset path in the build has to be relative rather than absolute. what this mostly involved was one new line in the vite config, to get both targets with one build. kill two birds with one stone right there! live demo up and running, but it’s just fun placeholder stuff. real progress on design and structure next!"}]...
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Title: onFocus by @starvulkan | Stardance
Devlogs Title: onFocus by @starvulkan | Stardance
Devlogs:
The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 1: Humble Beginnings welcome to the development of onFocus, a new tab page that helps you keep your mind where your work is, instead of on the distractions killing our chances of becoming responsible human beings. you’ll be able to set a focus session, run a timer against it, and get weekly reports on where your time actually went. Time runs and waits for nobody, yk! as with any project, work today involved getting the whole structure and basics up and running, so a lot of scaffolding, cleaning, configuring, ETCCC. as we all know, that’s E V E R Y B O D Y ’ S favorite part, so funnnnn… few issues here and there, biggest one being when I had to install node through VS Code terminal and then it refused to accept it existed, so every new terminal window was getting a “snapshot” from before the install, until VS Code got its little restart. as for important decisions, today was decided that onFocus should exist and run as both a website and as a browser extension for mass access, and those live at completely different URLs, so every asset path in the build has to be relative rather than absolute. what this mostly involved was one new line in the vite config, to get both targets with one build. kill two birds with one stone right there! live demo up and running, but it’s just fun placeholder stuff. real progress on design and structure next!
The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 2: Graphicssss most of the work on onFocus today went to creating its graphical identity: logos, wordmarks, etcc! Took time to settle on colors and designs, but ended with something I feel very happy with! Its logo icon features a crescent moon with a star, to represent focus and late-night work sessions. The color palette chosen gives it a “minty clean” feeling, just like our (planned) UI! main issue today involved the fact that I used live text on the wordmark when designing it in Affinity, so when exported to SVG, if the host device didn’t have the custom font, it would look horrible in a fallback sans-serif, and thats putting it lightly. So I just ended up using PNGs for all designs to avoid a big headache… also dealt with few canvas dimension issues and embedded bitmaps with no actual paths in supposed “vector” icons, but nothing beyond that. Once all the graphics were ready, they were added to the GitHub README, the placeholder in the live demo, and wherever necessary! now, it doesn’t look stale and boring! and thats funn! next up, we return to work on the actual new tab itself! we’ll prepare the Manifest V3 extension wrapper, so onFocus can actually take over a new tab page and finally give you that much needed focus!
The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 3: onFocus invades your browser, muehehe guysss, finally, tangible progress has been made! with the addition of the Manifest V3, alongside other configs, onFocus can now be installed as an extension on Chromium-based browsers in extension developer mode and take over your (allegedly) very bloated and time-consuming new tab! For our fellow non-Chromium browser users, you may set the live demo link as your homepage, cuz custom extension installs are just temporary (one browser restart and they be gone) and for the possibility of permanent installs i would have to get it signed, and that would take too long… the codebase is still one for both the extension and website, with a small storage layer that quietly uses chrome.storage inside the extension and localStorage on the web. with this update, a semi-functional UI has also been added to onFocus. It features a time-triggered greeter and a clock, as well as a background with three CSS-animated blobs. soo cool!! for them to move and breathe around, you need to enable animation effects in your OS, otherwise they gonna stay still the whole time. next, I will start working on getting NASA’s APOD as a background option, so you can choose between that and the onFocus blobs!
The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 4: ITS ALIVEEE sooo slight detour… I delayed the NASA APOD thingy to prioritize getting onFocus’s main features up and running. because why if no focus features, why focus shaped? so yea! now it’s an actually useable new tab replacement for your current one! the focus features have been added. this includes your task/focus creator, pomodoro timer, and focus history. your very important and essential search bar has also been added, with duckygo as the default search engine. expect a custom search engine selector in a future update! isnt it so fun when you are falling asleep while programming and you make a typo and dont realize you did until oh wow why is my code not working?? yea i find that EXTREMELY funn… next up for tomorrow’s me to deal with: i’m finally getting the NASA APOD wallpaper setting up and running. once that’s done, imma ship this thing’s first release. but that wont be the end, imma ship again afterwards with more features!!
The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 5: Houston, we have focused! You can now set NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as your new tab wallpaper! With this update, a new settings menu has also been added, where you can change between the NASA APOD or onFocus’s default wallpaper; Aurora Blobs. due to the randomized nature of the NASA APOD, this can create problems with the visibility of on-screen texts and images, cuz some pictures may be brighter or darker than others. thats why, when in NASA APOD wallpaper mode, a dimming config will appear in settings, allowing you to get the image to look just right in relation to the other on-screen elements. I have also added into the settings menu the config to set a different search engine other than duckyduckygooo. you can choose between a set of engines in a dropdown, or add a link to a custom search engine. you may call this the first actual release of onFocus! this version is going to get shipped. but, a second ship will start development immediately afterwards, with new features to enhance your experience!
The onFocusing Sessions, Devlog 6: Updates While-U-Wait although my first ship is still under review, this doesn’t stop me to continue working on features for the next ship! these aren’t available in the repo just yet, but they will be as soon as the ship gets reviewed! i’ve added two new features and fixed a bug. before, if you refreshed the page, whatever you wrote into the focus intent didnt get saved and cached if you didnt start the focus session. now, it gets saved, no matter if the focus session has been started or nah. as for features, you can now delete focus sessions from history, in case they got accidentally started or the intent wasn’t written correctly. if you accidentally delete one, you can undo your delete as long as you dont leave the history menu. if you delete and leave the menu, its gone forever. also, weather has been added (uses Open-Meteo)! you may now search for your location or use the “use my location” button to find it automatically, and get weather info (will appear in the top left corner once set)! soo cool! this will be the last update until the first ship gets reviewed. once it comes back from that, this update will be available in the repo, and i’ll start working on a few more for the second ship!
quick devlog 6.5! the features and changes mentioned in devlog 6 are now available! since the ship review came back needing a few changes, i figured i should just bundle them in the re-ship.
Devlog 7: are you blind? they are clearly different! its a UI refresh! like chrome in 2023, the onFocus UI has been updated! i rewrote the whole css stylesheet and brought some changes along the way! buttons are now minty! the weather icon is now also filled with minty color, not just an outline as before. rounded corners in bars have also been amplified. the onFocus logo has been moved to the top of all the center elements. most importantly, i realized that previously, onFocus used to be quite resource wasteful with some visuals (like the moving aurora blobs). all these unnecessary stuff have been removed, and now onFocus doesnt consume as much system resources as before.
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the mysterious onFocus sequel! So it turns out I had about 6.6 unshipped hours for this project and I just realized lol (thx amberrr), so I figured what is the loss of reshipping it, the more stardust the merrier! So these hours mostly come from the changes I made while ship #1 was being reviewed, which I thought were included in that ship, but it turns out I was wrong lol! So this ship includes the weather functionality, deleting focus sessions from your history, and the very good UI refresh I gave it! as my first project for any ysws, I am still very fond of it although now I see sooo many stuff I could’ve done better. i still use onFocus as my primary new tab on my browser, and I can give testimony that it was helped me quite a bit on enhancing my productivity, as before I would get easily distracted by the shortcut links on my new tab, but now i never do! its also very cozy and I quite like the UI I made for it. for voters, um yea I understand if you give it a low rating lol, its kinda mid in the grand scheme of things, and i’ve realized this with time (i now see soooo many stuff I could’ve added or enhanced lol). i kinda just see this project as the thing that made me begin my hack club adventure, as a relic of the near past, yk?...
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[{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-0 [{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:45:37Z", "hours": 178.0, "multiplier": null, "payout": 0, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "Telemetry LMU An application for both Windows and Linux to visualize the telemetry data from Le Mans Ultimate What it does: This application collects, stores, and visualizes data from a racing simulator called Le Mans Ultimate. The main goal: Allow users to analyze their driving and learn from their data through an easy-to-use interface. The requirements: Performance, nice and simple UI, expandability, minimal setup. Results: Main goal: Achieved. (I wouldn’t be shipping this app otherwise) Performance: On average the app uses 4% of CPU and 250Mb of RAM under full load. That is less RAM usage than running Spotify in the background. Nice and simple UI: This is personal preference, however in my opinion I think i succeeded. Expandability: The architecture of the app is very modular so this also isn’t a problem. Setup: On windows there is none (except installing the app), on linux there is one dependency (this is sadly unavoidable.) Some stats: 200+ hours of development time (including the time before Stardance) 250+ commits 6 000+ lines of Rust", "repo": "https://github.com/Karlito05/TelemetryLMU", "demo": "https://github.com/Karlito05/TelemetryLMU/releases/tag/v1.0.1"}]...
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[{"post_id": 71364, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71364, "ts": "2026-09-20T18:08:56Z", "hours": 1.2894, "text": "Devlog 29 - The end So this is the last one, huh. Here is the full write up on this project as I promised. Chapter 1 - The beginnings This project started about 3 months ago. I started experimenting with just getting the data and plotting it. Just for fun as an exercise to learn rust. Then I realized that there actually isn’t a proper working telemetry tool that works on linux. So I did some research… and I decided that I am going to make the app in Dioxus. Chapter 2 - The Dioxus era This leads us to the shortest of eras. The Dioxus era. Nothing really happened here and quite frankly I don’t even remember it that much. There aren’t really any git commits because I didn’t have that setup yet. One thing i remember tho is that I couldn’t figure out how to draw the garphs, because Dioxus is based on web technologies but weirdly becuase you are writing HTLM like syntax but in rust. And that was the main reason I decided to switch to Tauri. Chapter 3 - The Tauri era At first Tauri was the best framework ever made for me. That is because I already kinda knew react, it was simple to understand and I could really lean into the split frontend and backend architecture. This sadly proved very inefficient for the graph view which needs to render thousands of points each frame. Since it was too much for the basic HTML canvas I have switched to using WebGL with numerous downsampling techniques. This was just a bandaid fix though. I have also ran into bunch of architectural issues with the whole split frontend and backend thing. Accessing the telemetry data proved to be very difficult and inefficient. I remember that I ran each of the graphs on a separate thread. This was so stupid. I don’t even remember how I could’ve come up with such a stupid idea :D. It just led to memory leaks and threads uncontrollably spinning up and not stopping. I am sure that all of that could’ve been easily avoided with simpler architecture but at that point I was at my lowest point of this project, so I didn’t even have the energy to do it. I also had the state of the frontend so fragmented which didn’t help. And the whole retained mode GUI thing just wasn’t well suited for this kind of app. And that is when I decided to do a complete rewrite in pure rust! Chapter 4 - The sweet EGUI I didn’t know it at the time, but this was the best idea on what to do with the project. I remember that I was very split between just shipping it half done and finishing it just because of how bad the development experience with Tauri was (sorry Tauri devs, it’s not a you thing, it’s a me thing). It took about 30h to fully rewrite the app with EGUI, which looking back at it isn’t too bad. It felt like ages though. It didn’t help that almost none of the work in this “chapter” did AI. Which at the end of the day is better! Although my style of writing EGUI code was let’s say original… I have just put everything into one file and that grew very fast :D. I had like 5 files that were about 800 lines each. That has since luckily changed. (I have adopted more of a React style file structure.) Anyway at the end of the rewrite I kinda started loving EGUI and that hasn’t stopped since. I continued to develop the Map page in EASY which was pretty easy. But then I needed the track limits data for the map page. This was a bit of a roadblock… First I have tried to extract the data directly from the game, however this was inaccurate and the track width was missing entirely. So then I tried to download an up to date image of the top down view of the track and extract the inside and outside line from it and match it to the in game data. This partially worked better, still not great tho. So there was only one option left. And that was to painfully drive each layout of each track by hand. This took almost 7h of just driving in circles. After that it was smooth and buggy sailing until the ship. Everyone who read this, have a beautiful day."}, {"post_id": 71172, "ts": "2026-09-20T12:02:04Z", "hours": 7.2817, "text": "Devlog 28 Today is gonna be a big day, because I will ship the project. There is a few things left to do tho. Mainly the readme and the demo video! In my last and next devlog I will also make a write up on the story of the whole project so far. Besides that I have yesterday refactored the whole codebase so now there aren’t just 5 monolithic files. I went for a more react like approach with the structure being divided into pages and components. Sadly there isn’t enough time until the ship to touch up on some old UI and UX problems in the edit view of the graphs, neither is there time to add more fields. This will be done in the near future! Overall I am very happy how the app turned out. But this is not the end of the development this is just the end of the stardance journey!"}, {"post_id": 70125, "ts": "2026-09-18T14:50:07Z", "hours": 4.7625, "text": "Devlog 27 For the past few hours I have been polishing the app up. The main you’ll probably see are the onboarding dialogs. A global one pops up when you first launch the app and then one for each page when you first enter them. Another change I have done is that I made the ghosts on the map page be based on time and not data point index."}, {"post_id": 68694, "ts": "2026-09-15T15:37:09Z", "hours": 9.5181, "text": "Devlog 26 Hiiiii For the past few hours I have been working on polishing the app and get it to a shippable state overall. There is still work left to do, but I am getting there. I have set up a simple packager, and a simple script to use it. It automatically compiles the release version of the app and packages it into a windows installer a Debian .deb package and a pacman package. I have also (after like 2 hours of struggeling with it) added an Icon for the app. So now it looks nice!There has been a lot of new bugfixes as well and the app has been tested by my friend so it should be somwhat usable, tho the setup UX should be improved upon. If you wish you can download the app from here: https://github.com/Karlito05/TelemetryLMU/releases/tag/v0.2.3 Well that is all I have for you all today, so have a nice one :)"}, {"post_id": 66482, "ts": "2026-09-12T10:09:34Z", "hours": 5.3067, "text": "Devlog 25 I know I have just made a devlog like yesterday but holy s*** the track references work so well. They are practically perfect . Besides the references I have also implemented the delta time between the 2 cars! That has really tied the page together. If I can say so myself, we are getting pretty close to the final ship . There is not much needed to implement. The obvious are bugfixes, and some simple onboarding. But really, that’s it! Everyone who is following or caring about this project can expect a ship in the next week or so. In my final devlog I will also do a writeup on this project as a whole, from the coarse beginnings in Dyoxys, trough Tauri, to the sweet home of EGUI. There will also be a trailer video and a demo for all the raters :D Anyway for now you can have this preview of the map page! Stay tuned!"}, {"post_id": 65936, "ts": "2026-09-11T12:33:33Z", "hours": 6.7664, "text": "Devlog 24 HI! All of the time on this devlog was basically just driving in circles. And I mean that. I have recorded all of the outsides and insides of all tracks in the game to get the data for the map page. It was very teidius and very boring. Like very very boring. There are 31 tracks in LMU (including each layout) and on every one of them I had to do an out lap, the ouside, another out lap and the inside. So 4laps for each. That is about 15min per layout. Yeah it was a long one. And the recordings aren’t perfect either! I will now have to somehow process them all to get them ready for the ship. You can watch the timelapses of this process here if you wish. https://lapse.hackclub.com/timelapse/OQcismBwxbBB https://lapse.hackclub.com/timelapse/le3Lta0RxcUA https://lapse.hackclub.com/timelapse/XRf98OimmUk9 Anyway. Have a nice day!"}, {"post_id": 63016, "ts": "2026-09-06T16:07:27Z", "hours": 7.12, "text": "Devlog 23 - More Refactoring Hi! In the past few days I have been making some core architectural changes to the project and I would like to explain them now. Telemetry Provider I have finally decided on how I am gonna handle telemetry in the long term. It’s a pretty simple concept but the implementation is pretty hard. I have one object (the TelemetryProvider struct) that is in charge of getting and managing the telemetry. Right now it logs data from all cars and stores the best, last and current laps. If you wish it can save only your laps or laps of everybody. Each lap is a json file about 500kB - 1MB in size and holds all the data that can be displayed in the app. Notably the position ( so you can load that lap directly into the map page ) and the data displayed by the graphs (so you can load it as a reference there as well.) Pointer to this struct is distributed to pages that need it so they can access it! The provider has a core logging loop that is running on another thread so the whole UI doesn’t have to redraw each time you log new data. (About 60 times a second.) State and Settings Providers Next, I have implemented a StateProvider and an SettingsProvider . These two are basically a drop in replacement of what was stored in the Sidebar and SettingsPage respectively. Difference between the two is that the StateProvider isn’t stored between app restarts. Similarly to how the TelemetryProvider works, each of the pages that need these values get a shared pointer (or an Arc in rust) and can access the values. What’s next Going further I will keep my focus on the map page. Finish it, and then start polishing the app for the final ship! Wish me luck and have a nice day!"}, {"post_id": 61727, "ts": "2026-09-04T19:26:10Z", "hours": 9.5394, "text": "Devlog 22 Hiiiiiiiiiiiii I have some huge news to tell you. I have just made the MOST complex addition yet. And I love it! I have completely overhauled the accessing and managing the telemetry! I have designed a thread safe way to have it run on a separate thread and be accessible from *every place in the app. One unified API for everything! I now store the current lap and the last lap for each of the cars. Tho this takes up a massive 140mb of just floats (in the worst case scenario) I believe its worth the RAM! (Let’s be real, we have saved over 400mb from the tauri implementation so we can now use some of that!) Next I will continue on further implementing these features around the tool. Anyway have a nice day people and bye bye. Some context to that meme: I have a type in my app that is literally Arc<Mutex<[([f64; TelemetryValueType::Max as usize], Option); 104]»"}, {"post_id": 60204, "ts": "2026-09-02T13:06:23Z", "hours": 9.4931, "text": "Devlog 21 For the past few days I have been working on a new feature. The map page. It is turning out great, however it has a lot of bugs. These will get fix over the next few days. I promise :) There have also been changes made to the lap logging system and some other systems as well. As you can see on the image you select 2 saved laps and can crosscompare the lines you drove. Obviously this is completly useless if you loaded 2 different track like I did here. This will get checked for and prohibited in the future. Next I will add the underlying lap overlay which I will somehow extract from the game or from somewhere else. I don’t really know yet. Well that is it for today. Have a great day and bye bye!"}, {"post_id": 57444, "ts": "2026-08-29T16:23:51Z", "hours": 8.955, "text": "Devlog 20 So I have been polishing up the current features a bit and they are far from done. I am starting to question if i will make it to shipping this app one day :D. Anyway I have fixed numerous bugs, added an settings page and implemnted although very crudly a lap logger. But there is still a lot work that needs to be done. I have also added persistancy so the app remembers your choices. I am almost ready to replace the main branch with the fully rusted version, but like I said more work has to be done to go trough with that! I have probably never shown how the Car info page turned out and IMO it did really well. (The empty space is for inputs. That will be implemented soon!)"}, {"post_id": 55542, "ts": "2026-08-27T13:46:52Z", "hours": 8.0039, "text": "Devlog 19 Hello hello! Today I have some exciting news. The rewrite is complete That’s right, after about 30 hours of porting this code from tauri into EGUI it is finally finished! So let’s take a look at some stats, shall we ? | | Tauri | EGUI | |----------------------|-------------|--------------- | | Dev time | 80h | 30h | | Lines of code written | 6k | 3k | | Enjoyability | suboptimal | above average | And some perofrmance stuff as well: | | Tauri | EGUI | |----------------------|-------------|--------------- | | Ram idle | ~700Mb | ~150Mb | | CPU % idle | ~5% | ~5% | | FPS under load | ~29fps | stable 60 | Some other perks also include that EGUI doesn’t need a browser installed on the system to work. Overall I think this was a very successful rewrite! I wouldn’t do it again tho Next I will refactor the code a bit, do a bit off the good ’ol cleanup and then get to work on the map feature."}, {"post_id": 54543, "ts": "2026-08-25T15:54:21Z", "hours": 4.4164, "text": "Devlog 18 - 100h on the project So it’s been a hundred hours huh ? I also can’t believe it! I have also just now finished* the graph view which will be newly called Telemetry (page) Now I will move onto making the car info page previously known as the championship view. I expect this to be very easy!"}, {"post_id": 53875, "ts": "2026-08-24T16:07:03Z", "hours": 6.4811, "text": "Devlog 17 Hello guys. Its me again :D I am continuing to rewrite the UI into egui. I have completed the Graph view’s UI and now I am moving onto implementing it. One thing I have noticed is just how much more “code efficient” egui is. I understand that I didn’t make the logic behind the code yet but even with that I made the same thing with 3k less lines of code. Here is how the layout edit mode is looking for now."}, {"post_id": 51324, "ts": "2026-08-20T22:11:51Z", "hours": 5.83, "text": "Devlog 16 Another 6 hours, another devlog… Hi people. For the last 2 days I took a bit of a break from the project. I have played Approximately up with the boys and it was so fun. Y’all should try the game. It has a free demo 😉 But we are not here to talk about games, are we… I am continuing the implementation of the frontend and its coming along nicely. I’ve just noticed one thing, making the UI itself in egui is kinda slow however the state is very easy. Whilst this not being completely ideal i can push trough that. Since the last devlog, I have finished the implementation of the sidebar, and started working on the telemetry page. I have the graphs sorted and now I am working on the top bar. It’s having a couple of issues at the moment but nothing hard to fix really. I am hopefully gonna continue tomorrow and have the page finished by the end of the week. Welp, I guess that’s it for today. Everybody have a beautiful day, and bye bye!"}, {"post_id": 48473, "ts": "2026-08-16T20:40:29Z", "hours": 6.3456, "text": "Devlog 15 For the last few days, I have been remaking the UI in EGUI and I am enjoying it so far. I’ve been working on the graphs in the graph view and also the sidebar. The sidebar is turning out very well and I am also pretty pleased with the graphs. I have only this for now, so enjoy :D"}, {"post_id": 46562, "ts": "2026-08-13T21:40:19Z", "hours": 2.9933, "text": "Devlog 14 I have done some research and decided that moving forward the app will use eGPU as the main GUI library. I have chosen this over the competitors due to a few reasons. The main being that its rendered natively and that its a intermediate mode library. This will make it very easy to work with the graphs and hopefully other stuff too. I am enjoying working with it so far. There are some concepts that I really like, like that everything that has state is just a simple struct that is initialized somewhere and you do most of the implementation. The widget system is also pretty cool. I was at first worried that I would hate it due to my experiences from TKInter that was forced on me in school :D but its pretty intuitive how they did it. Going further I will need to think about the architecture of the app a bit to not have it fall apart. Right now I am thinking that one thread will be the main “logger thread” which will gather data from the telemetry and then there will be the UI thread. I think that is what pretty much everyone is doing so it might work . With this approach i am worried that its gonna be a pain, but what isn’t these days… I don’t really have that much more to say so at least enjoy this screenshot of a pretty much not working app Fun fact: due to how the lib works there is a bug now that you have to move your cursor on the app for it to log data :DDD"}, {"post_id": 46009, "ts": "2026-08-12T21:29:42Z", "hours": 2.5956, "text": "Devlog 13 Okay so I might have found a solution for me not liking react and web technologies but still wanting to finish this project. And I don’t like it…. but it has to be done. But before I tell you what it is you have to understand my problems. The good React in combination with typescript is a very easy thing to understand. They are everywhere, the skill of knowing these is very valuable. They have a huge ecosystem because they are everywhere. And I am sure that I have forgotten many other cool and interesting features and perks but I picked them for mainly these 3. The Bad They are slow (in comparison to something like rust) They rely too heavily on browsers (I mean it’s basically their runtime) You have to be “hacky” to do some things. They are not suitable to develop desktop apps I mean in hindsight those are so obvious but until you are balls deep into some specific project you don’t really think about those. The main problem is that the performance is, for the lack of a better word, sh*t. And normally that isn’t a problem however when you are processing a memory object of about 300kb 60 times per second it adds up fast. Even on my pretty beefy PC (r7 9800x3d and n5070ti) it hardly gets 30 fps. I know this could probably be fixed with “more hacky workarounds” but I am tired of those. The solution I am going to REWRITE The project I have spent 70h on already in some rust native GUI framework such as ICED. I have not yet decided which one to chose and I will do that research tomorrow and report back Literally me RN ⬇️"}, {"post_id": 45715, "ts": "2026-08-12T11:49:22Z", "hours": 2.1014, "text": "Devlog 12 This will be more of like a quick update on the championships feature. So what has happened is that I have implemented the feature, and assumed that the data will be there for all players… which there isn’t. The other players show up and everything but the details like tire data, damage data and fuel data just isn’t there. So I am kinda stuck if I should just scrap the feature or recreate it into a personal data panel which would just not be fun I think. Also the damages data is very very limited, so I just don’t know what to do."}, {"post_id": 45217, "ts": "2026-08-11T15:31:51Z", "hours": 9.4839, "text": "Devlog 11 Hello guys. I have some good news and some bad news… Let’s start with the not so good news. After thinking about it, I have decided, that I don’t really enjoy working on this project. It’s not that the project it self is bad, it’s more about the tech stack I chose… Don’t get me wrong typescript and react are both phenomenal choices and great tools but, I guess the web is just not for me. I realized that I like the lower end of the spectrum better. So I have decided to cut this project short. The map view will not be included in the final ship for the time being and the profile stats also will not be there. On the bright side, I have started working on the championships page with that nearing its completion. Next I will start to work on the onboarding and settings pages."}, {"post_id": 23759, "ts": "2026-07-06T21:48:28Z", "hours": 10.0158, "text": "Devlog 10 - We are in the double digits 🎊 UI Redesign Progress I am slowly redesigning the app to look like the design I made. I started with the sidebar and then the top control panel. All that went well. The Graphs… 😅 But then I got to the Graphs . *Oh, the graphs… *I wanted to redo the backend for them because the multiple-thread approach was just straight up stupid. It was a pain to develop and would be a pain to maintain. So, in my infinite wisdom , I have gone for just a simple async function. That means that right now the frontend is requesting each data point instead of subscribing to a stream. After that, I needed to revise the frontend graph component itself. At first I just wanted to make a non-messy implementation of the old version. However, it turned out that the HTML <canvas> element is really slow. And I mean realllllllllly slow. So after I wasted like 2 hours trying to optimize the design with no success, I rage quit and went to watch a movie. WebGL to the Rescue But I don’t give up that easily. After the movie, I reimplemented the graph view with WebGL through Pixi.js , which wasn’t even that hard like I expected and overall had much better performance. Well… at least after I fixed one very stupid bug . The Bug That Ate 10 GB of RAM I had forgotten everything from the first GraphView.tsx implementation, so I was just mindlessly copying over the code and renaming the variables to what I thought they meant when I first made it. Then I got to the part which draws the lap (aka the big loop over all the points-up to 10,000 points at a time). There was an error on one of the variables. It was the length of some array. I just renamed it to the main array length because… *what other thing would it be, right? *Well…It was the length of the values array , which was always 1 or 2 .So I accidentally turned 1 × 10,000 iterations into 10,000^2 iterations . Somehow the app still wasn’t lagging that much. It just took like 10 GB of RAM . The Result Thankfully, the new WebGL + Pixi.js approach is way more efficient , so after fixing that bug the graph rendering performs much better. It still isn’t perfect on the UI side of things but I am getting there!"}, {"post_id": 22818, "ts": "2026-07-05T12:34:46Z", "hours": 6.9447, "text": "Devlog 9 - THE REDESIGN For the past few days I’ve been working on a new design for the app. I am not the best designer and to be real I didn’t enjoy it :D. Designing is just too illogical for me. There’s not really much more to say about this. Enjoy the design:"}, {"post_id": 20110, "ts": "2026-07-01T17:12:04Z", "hours": 9.2647, "text": "Devlog 8 Do you guys remember how I said that I will take a break ? Yeah… That didn’t happen. Instead I have made a plan for myself on how I am gonna continue in the tool’s development. Da plan The plan Is pretty simple: Design the app in Figma, then build it! I have also made a list of features that will be added. You can find the plan on Github. You can also suggest features if you’re interested! …oh and before making the plan I have implemented a pretty cool logging feature. Basically it records the currently selected driver and saves all his data to a file along with the lap time and date. It does this only for laps that the game considers valid (aka gives a lap time to.)"}, {"post_id": 17764, "ts": "2026-06-28T18:11:51Z", "hours": 6.7406, "text": "DevLog 7 This will be just a quick update on how things are looking right now, what’s happening, and the overall state of the project. Good news The rewrite is complete The sole UI library is now ShadCN. There have also been some minor bugfixes and ux improvements. The main being that the app is now working on lower resolutions. We’ve got a readme. It’s basic, but its there. Also I have added installation instructions and released the 1st alpha version. You can find it in the releases! Both windows and linux packages are there! Bad news I will take a break for the next few days. I will be working on a smaller project for android and I hope that by the time I return I will be full of energy and ideas! What’s next I will continue working on the graph view. Mainly saving and loading reference laps, and overall better UI and UX."}, {"post_id": 12606, "ts": "2026-06-20T16:24:29Z", "hours": 9.7894, "text": "DevLog 6 - Windows support and the first rewrite! Windows support There’s not really much to say about this. You just get a handle on the game’s memory. This was vibecoded but it’s below 100 lines of windows specific code, so I’m gonna allow it. (It was just the 2 function that handle updating the telemetry and the rest is the same.) Rewrite After adding windows support, and sending it to a friend to test, I have discovered a massive problem. The app just didn’t work on a lower resolution. Since I have a QHD monitor, I didn’t notice it. Also when I started writing the app, I did it in pure React without any UI libraries, then I started to use Antd and then MUI and it became a mess. So I have done some research and decided to rewrite the app using ShadcnUI. I did this because Shadcn has one massive advantage - the code that you use is in your codebase. This means that you can modify the components however you want. It is also one of the more popular ones out there. For icons, I will be using Tabular, because they have a lot of them, and I like their look."}, {"post_id": 10767, "ts": "2026-06-17T17:54:53Z", "hours": 4.4767, "text": "DevLog 5 - Introducing the Layouts feature! So for the past few days I was implementing a layouts feature for the Graphs view in my app. Features: Adding layouts Removing layouts Managing layouts change what graphs they display change the properties of those graphs aka their number of gridlines, color and type How many graphs there are and what sizes they have You can do all of that in the Edit Mode . This mode is accessible via the layout selection dropdown. In edit mode you have options to change the graphs as said, remove the layout you’re editing, to save it as a new one or to save it (basically override the last one). All of this is persistent between sessions. Note that the UI in the screenshots is probably gonna be changed in the future and is just a development placeholder :)"}, {"post_id": 8829, "ts": "2026-06-14T18:01:40Z", "hours": 5.2161, "text": "DevLog 4 Today I have started implementing the layouts feature. There’s not much to really say. The graphs can be vertically adjusted in size, their color and type can be changed and there is a whole new edit mode for that. And that’s what I did for 5h today… (I really hate frontend :D) The design of the whole thing is unfinished but hey, it works. Even though some features (mainly saving and loading layouts) are missing its turning out great. I will continue developing this feature for the time being."}, {"post_id": 8235, "ts": "2026-06-13T18:14:25Z", "hours": 4.1997, "text": "DevLog 3 This one will be more about the organization of the project. New folder structure I have split up the src directory into a few different subdirectories mainly pages directory which is further split up into directories for each page and a components directory for reusable components like the sidebar. Logging Furthermore I have implemented logging on the backend. (It’s also callable from the frontend but that’s not that convenient at least in case of debugging so I won’t be using it as much.) The top bar Next I have started implementing a top bar for the telemetry view . On there will be some important controls and information regarding that view. Just note that in the screenshot the game is not open therefore the driver dropdown isn’t populated with any text. This will probably change in the future. And the layout dropdown is there just for the looks for now ;)"}, {"post_id": 6907, "ts": "2026-06-11T16:08:05Z", "hours": 2.7908, "text": "DevLog 2 Today i have fixed a bug where threads would spawn infinitely. I’ve been at it for 3h… Yeah it was kinda pain. So I basically have this architecture, where my backend spawns a new thread for each graph ( to provide information more responsibly. ) However whenever the graph element unloaded, it didn’t unsubscribe from that thread. A simple fix, just unsubscribe it, right ? Yup basically. However my lack of expertise in this kind of stuff led me on a wild goose chase. After I realized that what I am doing is stupid, it was just a simple hook that the spawn function returned, when spawning the new thread. Well we all make mistakes :D"}, {"post_id": 6797, "ts": "2026-06-11T12:14:18Z", "hours": 0.4275, "text": "DevLog 1 — An Introduction to My Project Hi! I’m Karlito, and this is my first devlog. I’d like to use this devlog to introduce my project, explain its current state, and share my plans for the future. So, what actually is LMU Telemetry? The TL;DR is that it’s a telemetry tool for Le Mans Ultimate. However, many people don’t know what that means, so I’ll explain it here. What is Le Mans Ultimate? In short, Le Mans Ultimate is a racing simulator. Unlike traditional racing games, it doesn’t simply say “the car accelerates when you press W.” Instead, it simulates the engine, tires, driveshafts, brakes, track grip, and many other factors to provide a realistic driving experience. What is telemetry? Telemetry is a way for simulators to output simulation data, such as speed, position, engine temperature, and much more. At a lower level, it’s essentially a chunk of memory containing numbers that are constantly updated with current information. What LMU Telemetry actually does LMU Telemetry aims to visualize these data points in a way that’s easy to understand and can help users improve their driving. It does this in several ways. For example, one feature draws real-time graphs of various metrics such as speed or delta time compared to your best lap. The current state of development The app is currently little more than a glorified demo. It has some rough UI elements and only plots graphs for a hardcoded car (index 0). While this works in private lobbies, where you’re always the first car, the system fails in most other situations. In short, the app isn’t very useful yet, but it’s a start. Main goals Live telemetry view Real-time graphs Map view A view showing the track layout and the line you drove Sharing features Exporting laps and comparing them with laps driven by other users Requirements The app must be performant Running LMU can already be demanding on some systems, so the app shouldn’t use more resources than necessary Linux support A reactive and polished UI Future plans Windows support Depending on how difficult this turns out to be, it may be implemented sooner Strategy mode Useful for endurance and team events, allowing you to monitor the tire and fuel status of other drivers So, what now? Right now, I’ll focus on getting the app to its MVP state. This means refining the UI, fixing bugs, and, most importantly, making the app genuinely useful. Well, that was quite a long one, wasn’t it? Thank you for reading all the way to the end, and have a wonderful rest of your day!"}]...
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Title: Telemetry LMU by @Karlito | Stardance
Devl Title: Telemetry LMU by @Karlito | Stardance
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DevLog 1 — An Introduction to My Project Hi! I’m Karlito, and this is my first devlog. I’d like to use this devlog to introduce my project, explain its current state, and share my plans for the future. So, what actually is LMU Telemetry? The TL;DR is that it’s a telemetry tool for Le Mans Ultimate. However, many people don’t know what that means, so I’ll explain it here. What is Le Mans Ultimate? In short, Le Mans Ultimate is a racing simulator. Unlike traditional racing games, it doesn’t simply say “the car accelerates when you press W.” Instead, it simulates the engine, tires, driveshafts, brakes, track grip, and many other factors to provide a realistic driving experience. What is telemetry? Telemetry is a way for simulators to output simulation data, such as speed, position, engine temperature, and much more. At a lower level, it’s essentially a chunk of memory containing numbers that are constantly updated with current information. What LMU Telemetry actually does LMU Telemetry aims to visualize these data points in a way that’s easy to understand and can help users improve their driving. It does this in several ways. For example, one feature draws real-time graphs of various metrics such as speed or delta time compared to your best lap. The current state of development The app is currently little more than a glorified demo. It has some rough UI elements and only plots graphs for a hardcoded car (index 0). While this works in private lobbies, where you’re always the first car, the system fails in most other situations. In short, the app isn’t very useful yet, but it’s a start. Main goals Live telemetry view Real-time graphs Map view A view showing the track layout and the line you drove Sharing features Exporting laps and comparing them with laps driven by other users Requirements The app must be performant Running LMU can already be demanding on some systems, so the app shouldn’t use more resources than necessary Linux support A reactive and polished UI Future plans Windows support Depending on how difficult this turns out to be, it may be implemented sooner Strategy mode Useful for endurance and team events, allowing you to monitor the tire and fuel status of other drivers So, what now? Right now, I’ll focus on getting the app to its MVP state. This means refining the UI, fixing bugs, and, most importantly, making the app genuinely useful. Well, that was quite a long one, wasn’t it? Thank you for reading all the way to the end, and have a wonderful rest of your day!
DevLog 2 Today i have fixed a bug where threads would spawn infinitely. I’ve been at it for 3h… Yeah it was kinda pain. So I basically have this architecture, where my backend spawns a new thread for each graph ( to provide information more responsibly. ) However whenever the graph element unloaded, it didn’t unsubscribe from that thread. A simple fix, just unsubscribe it, right ? Yup basically. However my lack of expertise in this kind of stuff led me on a wild goose chase. After I realized that what I am doing is stupid, it was just a simple hook that the spawn function returned, when spawning the new thread. Well we all make mistakes :D
DevLog 3 This one will be more about the organization of the project. New folder structure I have split up the src directory into a few different subdirectories mainly pages directory which is further split up into directories for each page and a components directory for reusable components like the sidebar. Logging Furthermore I have implemented logging on the backend. (It’s also callable from the frontend but that’s not that convenient at least in case of debugging so I won’t be using it as much.) The top bar Next I have started implementing a top bar for the telemetry view . On there will be some important controls and information regarding that view. Just note that in the screenshot the game is not open therefore the driver dropdown isn’t populated with any text. This will probably change in the future. And the layout dropdown is there just for the looks for now ;)
DevLog 4 Today I have started implementing the layouts feature. There’s not much to really say. The graphs can be vertically adjusted in size, their color and type can be changed and there is a whole new edit mode for that. And that’s what I did for 5h today… (I really hate frontend :D) The design of the whole thing is unfinished but hey, it works. Even though some features (mainly saving and loading layouts) are missing its turning out great. I will continue developing this feature for the time being.
DevLog 5 - Introducing the Layouts feature! So for the past few days I was implementing a layouts feature for the Graphs view in my app. Features: Adding layouts Removing layouts Managing layouts change what graphs they display change the properties of those graphs aka their number of gridlines, color and type How many graphs there are and what sizes they have You can do all of that in the Edit Mode . This mode is accessible via the layout selection dropdown. In edit mode you have options to change the graphs as said, remove the layout you’re editing, to save it as a new one or to save it (basically override the last one). All of this is persistent between sessions. Note that the UI in the screenshots is probably gonna be changed in the future and is just a development placeholder :)
DevLog 6 - Windows support and the first rewrite! Windows support There’s not really much to say about this. You just get a handle on the game’s memory. This was vibecoded but it’s below 100 lines of windows specific code, so I’m gonna allow it. (It was just the 2 function that handle updating the telemetry and the rest is the same.) Rewrite After adding windows support, and sending it to a friend to test, I have discovered a massive problem. The app just didn’t work on a lower resolution. Since I have a QHD monitor, I didn’t notice it. Also when I started writing the app, I did it in pure React without any UI libraries, then I started to use Antd and then MUI and it became a mess. So I have done some research and decided to rewrite the app using ShadcnUI. I did this because Shadcn has one massive advantage - the code that you use is in your codebase. This means that you can modify the components however you want. It is also one of the more popular ones out there. For icons, I will be using Tabular, because they have a lot of them, and I like their look.
DevLog 7 This will be just a quick update on how things are looking right now, what’s happening, and the overall state of the project. Good news The rewrite is complete The sole UI library is now ShadCN. There have also been some minor bugfixes and ux improvements. The main being that the app is now working on lower resolutions. We’ve got a readme. It’s basic, but its there. Also I have added installation instructions and released the 1st alpha version. You can find it in the releases! Both windows and linux packages are there! Bad news I will take a break for the next few days. I will be working on a smaller project for android and I hope that by the time I return I will be full of energy and ideas! What’s next I will continue working on the graph view. Mainly saving and loading reference laps, and overall better UI and UX.
Devlog 8 Do you guys remember how I said that I will take a break ? Yeah… That didn’t happen. Instead I have made a plan for myself on how I am gonna continue in the tool’s development. Da plan The plan Is pretty simple: Design the app in Figma, then build it! I have also made a list of features that will be added. You can find the plan on Github. You can also suggest features if you’re interested! …oh and before making the plan I have implemented a pretty cool logging feature. Basically it records the currently selected driver and saves all his data to a file along with the lap time and date. It does this only for laps that the game considers valid (aka gives a lap time to.)
Devlog 9 - THE REDESIGN For the past few days I’ve been working on a new design for the app. I am not the best designer and to be real I didn’t enjoy it :D. Designing is just too illogical for me. There’s not really much more to say about this. Enjoy the design:
Devlog 10 - We are in the double digits 🎊 UI Redesign Progress I am slowly redesigning the app to look like the design I made. I started with the sidebar and then the top control panel. All that went well. The Graphs… 😅 But then I got to the Graphs . *Oh, the graphs… *I wanted to redo the backend for them because the multiple-thread approach was just straight up stupid. It was a pain to develop and would be a pain to maintain. So, in my infinite wisdom , I have gone for just a simple async function. That means that right now the frontend is requesting each data point instead of subscribing to a stream. After that, I needed to revise the frontend graph component itself. At first I just wanted to make a non-messy implementation of the old version. However, it turned out that the HTML <canvas> element is really slow. And I mean realllllllllly slow. So after I wasted like 2 hours trying to optimize the design with no success, I rage quit and went to watch a movie. WebGL to the Rescue But I don’t give up that easily. After the movie, I reimplemented the graph view with WebGL through Pixi.js , which wasn’t even that hard like I expected and overall had much better performance. Well… at least after I fixed one very stupid bug . The Bug That Ate 10 GB of RAM I had forgotten everything from the first GraphView.tsx implementation, so I was just mindlessly copying over the code and renaming the variables to what I thought they meant when I first made it. Then I got to the part which draws the lap (aka the big loop over all the points-up to 10,000 points at a time). There was an error on one of the variables. It was the length of some array. I just renamed it to the main array length because… *what other thing would it be, right? *Well…It was the length of the values array , which was always 1 or 2 .So I accidentally turned 1 × 10,000 iterations into 10,000^2 iterations . Somehow the app still wasn’t lagging that much. It just took like 10 GB of RAM . The Result Thankfully, the new WebGL + Pixi.js approach is way more efficient , so after fixing that bug the graph rendering performs much better. It still isn’t perfect on the UI side of things but I am getting there!
Devlog 11 Hello guys. I have some good news and some bad news… Let’s start with the not so good news. After thinking about it, I have decided, that I don’t really enjoy working on this project. It’s not that the project it self is bad, it’s more about the tech stack I chose… Don’t get me wrong typescript and react are both phenomenal choices and great tools but, I guess the web is just not for me. I realized that I like the lower end of the spectrum better. So I have decided to cut this project short. The map view will not be included in the final ship for the time being and the profile stats also will not be there. On the bright side, I have started working on the championships page with that nearing its completion. Next I will start to work on the onboarding and settings pages.
Devlog 12 This will be more of like a quick update on the championships feature. So what has happened is that I have implemented the feature, and assumed that the data will be there for all players… which there isn’t. The other players show up and everything but the details like tire data, damage data and fuel data just isn’t there. So I am kinda stuck if I should just scrap the feature or recreate it into a personal data panel which would just not be fun I think. Also the damages data is very very limited, so I just don’t know what to do.
Devlog 13 Okay so I might have found a solution for me not liking react and web technologies but still wanting to finish this project. And I don’t like it…. but it has to be done. But before I tell you what it is you have to understand my problems. The good React in combination with typescript is a very easy thing to understand. They are everywhere, the skill of knowing these is very valuable. They have a huge ecosystem because they are everywhere. And I am sure that I have forgotten many other cool and interesting features and perks but I picked them for mainly these 3. The Bad They are slow (in comparison to something like rust) They rely too heavily on browsers (I mean it’s basically their runtime) You have to be “hacky” to do some things. They are not suitable to develop desktop apps I mean in hindsight those are so obvious but until you are balls deep into some specific project you don’t really think about those. The main problem is that the performance is, for the lack of a better word, sh*t. And normally that isn’t a problem however when you are processing a memory object of about 300kb 60 times per second it adds up fast. Even on my pretty beefy PC (r7 9800x3d and n5070ti) it hardly gets 30 fps. I know this could probably be fixed with “more hacky workarounds” but I am tired of those. The solution I am going to REWRITE The project I have spent 70h on already in some rust native GUI framework such as ICED. I have not yet decided which one to chose and I will do that research tomorrow and report back Literally me RN ⬇️
Devlog 14 I have done some research and decided that moving forward the app will use eGPU as the main GUI library. I have chosen this over the competitors due to a few reasons. The main being that its rendered natively and that its a intermediate mode library. This will make it very easy to work with the graphs and hopefully other stuff too. I am enjoying working with it so far. There are some concepts that I really like, like that everything that has state is just a simple struct that is initialized somewhere and you do most of the implementation. The widget system is also pretty cool. I was at first worried that I would hate it due to my experiences from TKInter that was forced on me in school :D but its pretty intuitive how they did it. Going further I will need to think about the architecture of the app a bit to not have it fall apart. Right now I am thinking that one thread will be the main “logger thread” which will gather data from the telemetry and then there will be the UI thread. I think that is what pretty much everyone is doing so it might work . With this approach i am worried that its gonna be a pain, but what isn’t these days… I don’t really have that much more to say so at least enjoy this screenshot of a pretty much not working app Fun fact: due to how the lib works there is a bug now that you have to move your cursor on the app for it to log data :DDD
Devlog 15 For the last few days, I have been remaking the UI in EGUI and I am enjoying it so far. I’ve been working on the graphs in the graph view and also the sidebar. The sidebar is turning out very well and I am also pretty pleased with the graphs. I have only this for now, so enjoy :D
Devlog 16 Another 6 hours, another devlog… Hi people. For the last 2 days I took a bit of a break from the project. I have played Approximately up with the boys and it was so fun. Y’all should try the game. It has a free demo 😉 But we are not here to talk about games, are we… I am continuing the implementation of the frontend and its coming along nicely. I’ve just noticed one thing, making the UI itself in egui is kinda slow however the state is very easy. Whilst this not being completely ideal i can push trough that. Since the last devlog, I have finished the implementation of the sidebar, and started working on the telemetry page. I have the graphs sorted and now I am working on the top bar. It’s having a couple of issues at the moment but nothing hard to fix really. I am hopefully gonna continue tomorrow and have the page finished by the end of the week. Welp, I guess that’s it for today. Everybody have a beautiful day, and bye bye!
Devlog 17 Hello guys. Its me again :D I am continuing to rewrite the UI into egui. I have completed the Graph view’s UI and now I am moving onto implementing it. One thing I have noticed is just how much more “code efficient” egui is. I understand that I didn’t make the logic behind the code yet but even with that I made the same thing with 3k less lines of code. Here is how the layout edit mode is looking for now.
Devlog 18 - 100h on the project So it’s been a hundred hours huh ? I also can’t believe it! I have also just now finished* the graph view which will be newly called Telemetry (page) Now I will move onto making the car info page previously known as the championship view. I expect this to be very easy!
Devlog 19 Hello hello! Today I have some exciting news. The rewrite is complete That’s right, after about 30 hours of porting this code from tauri into EGUI it is finally finished! So let’s take a look at some stats, shall we ? | | Tauri | EGUI | |----------------------|-------------|--------------- | | Dev time | 80h | 30h | | Lines of code written | 6k | 3k | | Enjoyability | suboptimal | above average | And some perofrmance stuff as well: | | Tauri | EGUI | |----------------------|-------------|--------------- | | Ram idle | ~700Mb | ~150Mb | | CPU % idle | ~5% | ~5% | | FPS under load | ~29fps | stable 60 | Some other perks also include that EGUI doesn’t need a browser installed on the system to work. Overall I think this was a very successful rewrite! I wouldn’t do it again tho Next I will refactor the code a bit, do a bit off the good ’ol cleanup and then get to work on the map feature.
Devlog 20 So I have been polishing up the current features a bit and they are far from done. I am starting to question if i will make it to shipping this app one day :D. Anyway I have fixed numerous bugs, added an settings page and implemnted although very crudly a lap logger. But there is still a lot work that needs to be done. I have also added persistancy so the app remembers your choices. I am almost ready to replace the main branch with the fully rusted version, but like I said more work has to be done to go trough with that! I have probably never shown how the Car info page turned out and IMO it did really well. (The empty space is for inputs. That will be implemented soon!)
Devlog 21 For the past few days I have been working on a new feature. The map page. It is turning out great, however it has a lot of bugs. These will get fix over the next few days. I promise :) There have also been changes made to the lap logging system and some other systems as well. As you can see on the image you select 2 saved laps and can crosscompare the lines you drove. Obviously this is completly useless if you loaded 2 different track like I did here. This will get checked for and prohibited in the future. Next I will add the underlying lap overlay which I will somehow extract from the game or from somewhere else. I don’t really know yet. Well that is it for today. Have a great day and bye bye!
Devlog 22 Hiiiiiiiiiiiii I have some huge news to tell you. I have just made the MOST complex addition yet. And I love it! I have completely overhauled the accessing and managing the telemetry! I have designed a thread safe way to have it run on a separate thread and be accessible from *every place in the app. One unified API for everything! I now store the current lap and the last lap for each of the cars. Tho this takes up a massive 140mb of just floats (in the worst case scenario) I believe its worth the RAM! (Let’s be real, we have saved over 400mb from the tauri implementation so we can now use some of that!) Next I will continue on further implementing these features around the tool. Anyway have a nice day people and bye bye. Some context to that meme: I have a type in my app that is literally Arc<Mutex<[([f64; TelemetryValueType::Max as usize], Option); 104]»
Devlog 23 - More Refactoring Hi! In the past few days I have been making some core architectural changes to the project and I would like to explain them now. Telemetry Provider I have finally decided on how I am gonna handle telemetry in the long term. It’s a pretty simple concept but the implementation is pretty hard. I have one object (the TelemetryProvider struct) that is in charge of getting and managing the telemetry. Right now it logs data from all cars and stores the best, last and current laps. If you wish it can save only your laps or laps of everybody. Each lap is a json file about 500kB - 1MB in size and holds all the data that can be displayed in the app. Notably the position ( so you can load that lap directly into the map page ) and the data displayed by the graphs (so you can load it as a reference there as well.) Pointer to this struct is distributed to pages that need it so they can access it! The provider has a core logging loop that is running on another thread so the whole UI doesn’t have to redraw each time you log new data. (About 60 times a second.) State and Settings Providers Next, I have implemented a StateProvider and an SettingsProvider . These two are basically a drop in replacement of what was stored in the Sidebar and SettingsPage respectively. Difference between the two is that the StateProvider isn’t stored between app restarts. Similarly to how the TelemetryProvider works, each of the pages that need these values get a shared pointer (or an Arc in rust) and can access the values. What’s next Going further I will keep my focus on the map page. Finish it, and then start polishing the app for the final ship! Wish me luck and have a nice day!
Devlog 24 HI! All of the time on this devlog was basically just driving in circles. And I mean that. I have recorded all of the outsides and insides of all tracks in the game to get the data for the map page. It was very teidius and very boring. Like very very boring. There are 31 tracks in LMU (including each layout) and on every one of them I had to do an out lap, the ouside, another out lap and the inside. So 4laps for each. That is about 15min per layout. Yeah it was a long one. And the recordings aren’t perfect either! I will now have to somehow process them all to get them ready for the ship. You can watch the timelapses of this process here if you wish. https://lapse.hackclub.com/timelapse/OQcismBwxbBB https://lapse.hackclub.com/timelapse/le3Lta0RxcUA https://lapse.hackclub.com/timelapse/XRf98OimmUk9 Anyway. Have a nice day!
Devlog 25 I know I have just made a devlog like yesterday but holy s*** the track references work so well. They are practically perfect . Besides the references I have also implemented the delta time between the 2 cars! That has really tied the page together. If I can say so myself, we are getting pretty close to the final ship . There is not much needed to implement. The obvious are bugfixes, and some simple onboarding. But really, that’s it! Everyone who is following or caring about this project can expect a ship in the next week or so. In my final devlog I will also do a writeup on this project as a whole, from the coarse beginnings in Dyoxys, trough Tauri, to the sweet home of EGUI. There will also be a trailer video and a demo for all the raters :D Anyway for now you can have this preview of the map page! Stay tuned!
Devlog 26 Hiiiii For the past few hours I have been working on polishing the app and get it to a shippable state overall. There is still work left to do, but I am getting there. I have set up a simple packager, and a simple script to use it. It automatically compiles the release version of the app and packages it into a windows installer a Debian .deb package and a pacman package. I have also (after like 2 hours of struggeling with it) added an Icon for the app. So now it looks nice!There has been a lot of new bugfixes as well and the app has been tested by my friend so it should be somwhat usable, tho the setup UX should be improved upon. If you wish you can download the app from here: https://github.com/Karlito05/TelemetryLMU/releases/tag/v0.2.3 Well that is all I have for you all today, so have a nice one :)
Devlog 27 For the past few hours I have been polishing the app up. The main you’ll probably see are the onboarding dialogs. A global one pops up when you first launch the app and then one for each page when you first enter them. Another change I have done is that I made the ghosts on the map page be based on time and not data point index.
Devlog 28 Today is gonna be a big day, because I will ship the project. There is a few things left to do tho. Mainly the readme and the demo video! In my last and next devlog I will also make a write up on the story of the whole project so far. Besides that I have yesterday refactored the whole codebase so now there aren’t just 5 monolithic files. I went for a more react like approach with the structure being divided into pages and components. Sadly there isn’t enough time until the ship to touch up on some old UI and UX problems in the edit view of the graphs, neither is there time to add more fields. This will be done in the near future! Overall I am very happy how the app turned out. But this is not the end of the development this is just the end of the stardance journey!
Devlog 29 - The end So this is the last one, huh. Here is the full write up on this project as I promised. Chapter 1 - The beginnings This project started about 3 months ago. I started experimenting with just getting the data and plotting it. Just for fun as an exercise to learn rust. Then I realized that there actually isn’t a proper working telemetry tool that works on linux. So I did some research… and I decided that I am going to make the app in Dioxus. Chapter 2 - The Dioxus era This leads us to the shortest of eras. The Dioxus era. Nothing really happened here and quite frankly I don’t even remember it that much. There aren’t really any git commits because I didn’t have that setup yet. One thing i remember tho is that I couldn’t figure out how to draw the garphs, because Dioxus is based on web technologies but weirdly becuase you are writing HTLM like syntax but in rust. And that was the main reason I decided to switch to Tauri. Chapter 3 - The Tauri era At first Tauri was the best framework ever made for me. That is because I already kinda knew react, it was simple to understand and I could really lean into the split frontend and backend architecture. This sadly proved very inefficient for the graph view which needs to render thousands of points each frame. Since it was too much for the basic HTML canvas I have switched to using WebGL with numerous downsampling techniques. This was just a bandaid fix though. I have also ran into bunch of architectural issues with the whole split frontend and backend thing. Accessing the telemetry data proved to be very difficult and inefficient. I remember that I ran each of the graphs on a separate thread. This was so stupid. I don’t even remember how I could’ve come up with such a stupid idea :D. It just led to memory leaks and threads uncontrollably spinning up and not stopping. I am sure that all of that could’ve been easily avoided with simpler architecture but at that point I was at my lowest point of this project, so I didn’t even have the energy to do it. I also had the state of the frontend so fragmented which didn’t help. And the whole retained mode GUI thing just wasn’t well suited for this kind of app. And that is when I decided to do a complete rewrite in pure rust! Chapter 4 - The sweet EGUI I didn’t know it at the time, but this was the best idea on what to do with the project. I remember that I was very split between just shipping it half done and finishing it just because of how bad the development experience with Tauri was (sorry Tauri devs, it’s not a you thing, it’s a me thing). It took about 30h to fully rewrite the app with EGUI, which looking back at it isn’t too bad. It felt like ages though. It didn’t help that almost none of the work in this “chapter” did AI. Which at the end of the day is better! Although my style of writing EGUI code was let’s say original… I have just put everything into one file and that grew very fast :D. I had like 5 files that were about 800 lines each. That has since luckily changed. (I have adopted more of a React style file structure.) Anyway at the end of the rewrite I kinda started loving EGUI and that hasn’t stopped since. I continued to develop the Map page in EASY which was pretty easy. But then I needed the track limits data for the map page. This was a bit of a roadblock… First I have tried to extract the data directly from the game, however this was inaccurate and the track width was missing entirely. So then I tried to download an up to date image of the top down view of the track and extract the inside and outside line from it and match it to the in game data. This partially worked better, still not great tho. So there was only one option left. And that was to painfully drive each layout of each track by hand. This took almost 7h of just driving in circles. After that it was smooth and buggy sailing until the ship. Everyone who read this, have a beautiful day.
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Telemetry LMU An application for both Windows and Linux to visualize the telemetry data from Le Mans Ultimate What it does: This application collects, stores, and visualizes data from a racing simulator called Le Mans Ultimate. The main goal: Allow users to analyze their driving and learn from their data through an easy-to-use interface. The requirements: Performance, nice and simple UI, expandability, minimal setup. Results: Main goal: Achieved. (I wouldn’t be shipping this app otherwise) Performance: On average the app uses 4% of CPU and 250Mb of RAM under full load. That is less RAM usage than running Spotify in the background. Nice and simple UI: This is personal preference, however in my opinion I think i succeeded. Expandability: The architecture of the app is very modular so this also isn’t a problem. Setup: On windows there is none (except installing the app), on linux there is one dependency (this is sadly unavoidable.) Some stats: 200+ hours of development time (including the time before Stardance) 250+ commits 6 000+ lines of Rust...
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[{"post_id": 71358, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71358, "ts": "2026-09-20T17:59:43Z", "hours": 6.1881, "text": "I worked on building and finishing “The Runaway Panic Button”, an interactive arcade web game using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What I built and updated: • Runaway Mechanics: Programmed the target button to calculate screen boundaries and dodge away whenever hovered or touched. • UI & Layout: Compacted the top dashboard arena box and positioned the “Challenge a Friend” button in the bottom-right corner. • Rank Progression: Tied player ranks strictly to successful Clicks (Snail Reflexes -> Coffee Jitters -> Lightning Fingers -> Touch Grass Please ). • Spacebar Freeze Power: Added a hidden cheat counter that reveals when pressing Spacebar, freezing the button for 4 seconds so players can spam-click it. • Decoy Clone Hazards: Spawned fake red decoy buttons after 20+ dodges that reset player Clicks to 0 if misclicked. • Speech & Audio: Added Web Speech API synthesis for real-time voice taunts and victory announcements."}, {"post_id": 68826, "ts": "2026-09-15T20:19:38Z", "hours": 0.5747, "text": "finished fixing UI bug and added a live click counter! Now the game tracks every time a player actually manages to land a hit on the runaway button.On the first click, the display updates to “clicks: 1” in real time and triggers the “YOU WON!” screen. tested it using keyboard controls to make sure the event listener fires smoothly!"}, {"post_id": 68232, "ts": "2026-09-14T18:58:09Z", "hours": 1.5247, "text": "I was working on my runaway panic button today! Added a multi-level boss mode where players can choose from 4 difficulty levels(shy,panicked,hyperactive, and impossible). Ran into few JavaScript bugs while setting up the movement logic and button Scaling, so i will be finishing up debugging tomorrow!🛠️"}, {"post_id": 66877, "ts": "2026-09-12T20:29:08Z", "hours": 2.0861, "text": "so i am making a button that escapes from your cursor when trying to click it i added things like i made the button change color every time someone hovers over it trying to click the button and i added dodge counter to count how many times it have dodged you and one more thing i have letter changing i mean when you try to click it and dodges you it says like too slow,nice try…etc."}, {"post_id": 66137, "ts": "2026-09-11T19:15:57Z", "hours": 1.6969, "text": "this is an interactive web app built with html,css and javascript the moment you attempt to click it the button,javascript tracks your cursor location and glides it smoothly to the opposite side of your screen,making it impossible to catch."}, {"post_id": 65571, "ts": "2026-09-10T19:54:47Z", "hours": 1.3194, "text": "so it is my first project it about making a button that escapes for the person cursor when trying to click it and i will add things like changing color and more and it uses things like html,javascript,css mostly it uses html. i am buliding it now."}]...
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Title: RUNAWAY BUTTON by @kbboy | Stardance
Devlo Title: RUNAWAY BUTTON by @kbboy | Stardance
Devlogs:
so it is my first project it about making a button that escapes for the person cursor when trying to click it and i will add things like changing color and more and it uses things like html,javascript,css mostly it uses html. i am buliding it now.
this is an interactive web app built with html,css and javascript the moment you attempt to click it the button,javascript tracks your cursor location and glides it smoothly to the opposite side of your screen,making it impossible to catch.
so i am making a button that escapes from your cursor when trying to click it i added things like i made the button change color every time someone hovers over it trying to click the button and i added dodge counter to count how many times it have dodged you and one more thing i have letter changing i mean when you try to click it and dodges you it says like too slow,nice try…etc.
I was working on my runaway panic button today! Added a multi-level boss mode where players can choose from 4 difficulty levels(shy,panicked,hyperactive, and impossible). Ran into few JavaScript bugs while setting up the movement logic and button Scaling, so i will be finishing up debugging tomorrow!🛠️
finished fixing UI bug and added a live click counter! Now the game tracks every time a player actually manages to land a hit on the runaway button.On the first click, the display updates to “clicks: 1” in real time and triggers the “YOU WON!” screen. tested it using keyboard controls to make sure the event listener fires smoothly!
I worked on building and finishing “The Runaway Panic Button”, an interactive arcade web game using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What I built and updated: • Runaway Mechanics: Programmed the target button to calculate screen boundaries and dodge away whenever hovered or touched. • UI & Layout: Compacted the top dashboard arena box and positioned the “Challenge a Friend” button in the bottom-right corner. • Rank Progression: Tied player ranks strictly to successful Clicks (Snail Reflexes -> Coffee Jitters -> Lightning Fingers -> Touch Grass Please ). • Spacebar Freeze Power: Added a hidden cheat counter that reveals when pressing Spacebar, freezing the button for 4 seconds so players can spam-click it. • Decoy Clone Hazards: Spawned fake red decoy buttons after 20+ dodges that reset player Clicks to 0 if misclicked. • Speech & Audio: Added Web Speech API synthesis for real-time voice taunts and victory announcements.
Ships:
🚀THE RUNAWAY PANIC BUTTON (shy button arcade) —————————————————– ⚠WARING: this button does NOT want to be clicked. -what is it: it is a game where you try to click a button that will go of you or dodge you when you are near it. 🎮 PLAY NOW & LEAVE A VOTE: Try to hit the red button as many times as you can while it teleports from your mouse.beat 20 clicks if you can! ✨FEATURES YOU MUST TEST: decoy clones: at 20+ dodges, fake decoy button spawn.click on, and your score resets to 0! -4 rank levels: they are total 4 level . -live vocie taunts: -real-time audio feedback powered by web speech API. WHAT i learn -this was my first project me coding i used Html and some java script and css i it was pain full i did not expeat to be this hard and full of bugs like one time it crashed because i used y=>Y an one time because because i did not added “’ the it crashed full.but i fun debugging it and learning i wish you good time trying to click it. kbboy, thanks for every thin...
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Mission Control by @Aamina | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71357, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71357, "ts": "2026-09-20T17:57:30Z", "hours": 1.8617, "text": "DEVLOG ?? Shipped but got rejected(again) im gonna be changing everything about this I did not change the ui much but made a few change to the code Now just move your hand to move the ship Dont hit the asteroids and collect the star orbs to get higher score! If your motion is not detected incraese sensitivity"}, {"post_id": 69800, "ts": "2026-09-17T20:13:12Z", "hours": 1.2, "text": "DEVLOG #5: (hopefully) last devlog, worked mostly on the html code, the score wasnt showing up properly when game ended so fixed that, debugged the code for tracking sensitivty,didnt do any styling work so i dont have anything to show you guys anyways heres a pic of my code instead :>"}, {"post_id": 69681, "ts": "2026-09-17T15:57:52Z", "hours": 1.6853, "text": "DEVLOG # 4: Changed the project UI from blue to neon greenish color it looks wayyyy better…at first i had a simple triangular shaped spaceship BUT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A VERYY REAL SPACESHIP it looked a bit big before, reduced the size now it looks a bit small lmao anyways here is how it looks: I LOVE THE NEW FONT!!"}, {"post_id": 56786, "ts": "2026-08-28T18:15:44Z", "hours": 2.2356, "text": "DEVLOG # 3: FINAL DEVLOG yaayyayyayyyayyyyy sooo MISSION CONTROL is a browser game you play by moving your head in front of your webcam In case you dont have webcam, dont worry, you can use keyboard! Sooo I wrotw the JS and CSS code and it all finaallyy works. In JavaScript I set the camera setup, motion tracking, game state, physics/collision, rendering, main loop.For asteroids,spawnInterval inside update() controls how fast asteroids start appearing.The 0.35 smoothing factor in sampleMotion() and the dt*8 easing in update() control how snappy or floaty the ship feels.Defined all colors once as CSS variables at the top of css file. The canvas size is determined by width/height attributes on canvas (both the HTML attribute and the W/H constants near the top of the script). This runs entirely client-side, at low resolution, so it’s cheap enough to do every frame without a GPU or external API. There’s no face/head-detection model involved."}, {"post_id": 56456, "ts": "2026-08-28T07:05:37Z", "hours": 0.9406, "text": "DEVLOG # 2: Guyss everything is going southh evrything that coud go wrong went wrong! i cant see the google font i imported, the enable camera button is not working maybe once i write the complete script it will start to function properly..defined te resettgame, startcamera and sampleMotion , the start camera is NOT working idk i should look into it however this is how it looks till now: (same as before ik lol)"}, {"post_id": 56418, "ts": "2026-08-28T05:47:04Z", "hours": 2.4583, "text": "Heyy guys im gonna be making a simple game in HTML,CS and JS where you have a spaceship and have to avoid asteroids(the obstacles) and try to catch the orbs(that increase your score), the twist however is that you dont move with keyboard keys but rather with your head! Wanted to post a devlog on my progress earlier but power got cut and internet was gonee anyways here is my DEVLOG: DEVLOG # 1: In my HTML file, I determined the structure of the project,to stream the wbecam used the video tag and canvas tag for where the game is to be played and then used 3 overlays for start,game over and camera denied screen, also added track sensitivity just in case its no picking up your motion The CSS fIle gave the look of my game, I first determined the colors,made the background a gradient,then positioned 4 L-shaped boders at each corner. idk why my google fonts is not working tho Still need to work on the JS file to determine the logic and functionality should i change the font size?"}]...
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Title: Mission Control by @Aamina | Stardance
Dev Title: Mission Control by @Aamina | Stardance
Devlogs:
Heyy guys im gonna be making a simple game in HTML,CS and JS where you have a spaceship and have to avoid asteroids(the obstacles) and try to catch the orbs(that increase your score), the twist however is that you dont move with keyboard keys but rather with your head! Wanted to post a devlog on my progress earlier but power got cut and internet was gonee anyways here is my DEVLOG: DEVLOG # 1: In my HTML file, I determined the structure of the project,to stream the wbecam used the video tag and canvas tag for where the game is to be played and then used 3 overlays for start,game over and camera denied screen, also added track sensitivity just in case its no picking up your motion The CSS fIle gave the look of my game, I first determined the colors,made the background a gradient,then positioned 4 L-shaped boders at each corner. idk why my google fonts is not working tho Still need to work on the JS file to determine the logic and functionality should i change the font size?
DEVLOG # 2: Guyss everything is going southh evrything that coud go wrong went wrong! i cant see the google font i imported, the enable camera button is not working maybe once i write the complete script it will start to function properly..defined te resettgame, startcamera and sampleMotion , the start camera is NOT working idk i should look into it however this is how it looks till now: (same as before ik lol)
DEVLOG # 3: FINAL DEVLOG yaayyayyayyyayyyyy sooo MISSION CONTROL is a browser game you play by moving your head in front of your webcam In case you dont have webcam, dont worry, you can use keyboard! Sooo I wrotw the JS and CSS code and it all finaallyy works. In JavaScript I set the camera setup, motion tracking, game state, physics/collision, rendering, main loop.For asteroids,spawnInterval inside update() controls how fast asteroids start appearing.The 0.35 smoothing factor in sampleMotion() and the dt*8 easing in update() control how snappy or floaty the ship feels.Defined all colors once as CSS variables at the top of css file. The canvas size is determined by width/height attributes on canvas (both the HTML attribute and the W/H constants near the top of the script). This runs entirely client-side, at low resolution, so it’s cheap enough to do every frame without a GPU or external API. There’s no face/head-detection model involved.
DEVLOG # 4: Changed the project UI from blue to neon greenish color it looks wayyyy better…at first i had a simple triangular shaped spaceship BUT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A VERYY REAL SPACESHIP it looked a bit big before, reduced the size now it looks a bit small lmao anyways here is how it looks: I LOVE THE NEW FONT!!
DEVLOG #5: (hopefully) last devlog, worked mostly on the html code, the score wasnt showing up properly when game ended so fixed that, debugged the code for tracking sensitivty,didnt do any styling work so i dont have anything to show you guys anyways heres a pic of my code instead :>
DEVLOG ?? Shipped but got rejected(again) im gonna be changing everything about this I did not change the ui much but made a few change to the code Now just move your hand to move the ship Dont hit the asteroids and collect the star orbs to get higher score! If your motion is not detected incraese sensitivity
Ships:
I built Mission Control, a browser game where you steer a spaceship using your webcam and it tracks motion by comparing video frames. I’m most proud of the motion tracking itself, since something that simple ends up feeling responsive, and the pause button, which matters more than it seems in a webcam game where you might need to stop mid-session! also also it can also track hands!! yayy The trickiest part wasn’t turning the camera on, but everything around it ! keeping the mirrored movement intuitive, tuning the motion-sensitivity threshold so it’s neither jittery nor unresponsive, and making sure the ship holds its position instead of snapping to a corner when you’re not moving....
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Reaper clock by @Abis-Aman | Stardance
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Title: Reaper clock by @Abis-Aman | Stardance
Dev Title: Reaper clock by @Abis-Aman | Stardance
Devlogs:
Dev log 1 so i astarted doing the pcb i though the server automatically taked the time but found out that it dosnt so 8 hours wasted and the sydtem or clod has amnny faliers so just in the process...
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Clash Royale Lookup by @Mice | Stardance
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[{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-0 [{"ship_num": 1, "ts": "2026-06-08T01:50:52Z", "hours": 5.0, "multiplier": 12.02, "payout": 58, "blessing": "neutral", "text": "I made a Clash Royale search tool because I found that there wasn’t many other there that didn’t have ads and were open source. I decided to chose C# as the language I was going to use because I wanted to branch out and try a new language. While it was challenging at first, I managed to write a functional program in a new language that might just be one of my favorite languages to write in. I enjoyed using Bootstrap and making the css for this as it was pretty easy since everything just worked.", "repo": "https://github.com/miceoroni/ClashRoyaleLookup", "demo": "https://clashlookup.miceoroni.xyz/"}]...
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[{"post_id": 71349, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71349, "ts": "2026-09-20T17:53:39Z", "hours": 1.3072, "text": "Devlog #4 - The Revisit of the Century Hello everyone, I decided to finally tidy up this project after not doing so since likeeee August. In doing so, I got around to finally crushing some bugs. One of the most tedious bugs was the loading circle of doom. This one was a pretty difficult bug to squash, but I managed to fix it by going into PlayerController and adding messages to things. Another thing I did was implement a Win Rate. Following the suggestion of someone who reviewed my ship, I decided to go ahead and add this to see how good someone is at Clash (my win rate is HORRID, i have a 78 lol) Lastly, I added a error icon to the error message, so that it doesn’t look as bland. Things to tackle next: Possible clan leaderboard? Award showcase Time account was created Banner display that matches the players custom display That’s all for now, see you in the (hopefully) next part!"}, {"post_id": 4626, "ts": "2026-06-08T00:28:48Z", "hours": 1.1544, "text": "Nearing completion, need to tidy up some of the code and write a actually good README and we should be ready to ship!"}, {"post_id": 2824, "ts": "2026-06-05T17:30:19Z", "hours": 2.705, "text": "touched up on the html and added a new clan api endpoint! i also made the css look way better and more polished. i will throw up a demo site soon for you guys to play around with"}, {"post_id": 162, "ts": "2026-06-01T01:10:33Z", "hours": 0.9356, "text": "getting around to adding bootstrap and working on the web panel a bit. the end result will look way better, i promise. things i enjoyed so far: looking at bootstrap and seeing how it Just Works ™️ seeing how easy controllers are for Asp.Net things i want to do next: make the css look better add more features (cards, deck last used, etc) make a logo"}]...
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Title: Clash Royale Lookup by @Mice | Stardance
D Title: Clash Royale Lookup by @Mice | Stardance
Devlogs:
getting around to adding bootstrap and working on the web panel a bit. the end result will look way better, i promise. things i enjoyed so far: looking at bootstrap and seeing how it Just Works ™️ seeing how easy controllers are for Asp.Net things i want to do next: make the css look better add more features (cards, deck last used, etc) make a logo
touched up on the html and added a new clan api endpoint! i also made the css look way better and more polished. i will throw up a demo site soon for you guys to play around with
Nearing completion, need to tidy up some of the code and write a actually good README and we should be ready to ship!
Devlog #4 - The Revisit of the Century Hello everyone, I decided to finally tidy up this project after not doing so since likeeee August. In doing so, I got around to finally crushing some bugs. One of the most tedious bugs was the loading circle of doom. This one was a pretty difficult bug to squash, but I managed to fix it by going into PlayerController and adding messages to things. Another thing I did was implement a Win Rate. Following the suggestion of someone who reviewed my ship, I decided to go ahead and add this to see how good someone is at Clash (my win rate is HORRID, i have a 78 lol) Lastly, I added a error icon to the error message, so that it doesn’t look as bland. Things to tackle next: Possible clan leaderboard? Award showcase Time account was created Banner display that matches the players custom display That’s all for now, see you in the (hopefully) next part!
Ships:
I made a Clash Royale search tool because I found that there wasn’t many other there that didn’t have ads and were open source. I decided to chose C# as the language I was going to use because I wanted to branch out and try a new language. While it was challenging at first, I managed to write a functional program in a new language that might just be one of my favorite languages to write in. I enjoyed using Bootstrap and making the css for this as it was pretty easy since everything just worked....
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Differential Swerve by @precon | Stardance
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[{"post_id": 71347, "ts": "202 [{"post_id": 71347, "ts": "2026-09-20T17:51:30Z", "hours": 4.35, "text": "Final design and print, need a bit more money for stronger filament/manufacturing, so will ship and then finish the project."}, {"post_id": 70478, "ts": "2026-09-19T08:16:24Z", "hours": 8.1925, "text": "Finished the full build and got everything assembled. It was very rough but it worked. Found a lot of problems and then started and almost finished redesigning it. I hope to print this out in a stronger material and try again to maybe have a more successful design."}, {"post_id": 70303, "ts": "2026-09-18T22:02:48Z", "hours": 14.9586, "text": "OMGGGG got first build done"}, {"post_id": 64029, "ts": "2026-09-08T04:39:06Z", "hours": 7.7411, "text": "It has been a long time working to fix all the previous issues. I think I have one of the most final versions of the model. I’ve only made very tiny tolerance revisions after the final version rebuild so I think I’m mostly stable for the CAD. I’ve been printing out everything to finally build both pods at once. I’ve compiled changes that I’ve done only on one pod or changes that should have plenty of clearance to work. Right now the final shell is printing. I’ll probably work on getting both pods disassembled tomorrow and reassembling them with brand new parts and it should all be coming together quickly. I also worked a lot on the code. I made the robot field-centric and also started using odometry to help out with the accuracy. I haven’t done anything with auto yet but I hope to do something with Pedro pathing to have an auto pathing system for my swerve. I’m pretty excited, to build the final version of my project and have a final product so this can come to a close."}, {"post_id": 63288, "ts": "2026-09-07T01:07:01Z", "hours": 12.1331, "text": "I finished doing the remodel with new parts. A lot of it was updating existing parts to fix what I noticed went wrong in the test build, which made V3. A lot of it was improving the clearances and tolerances between parts to reduce friction and increase efficiency. I also made a lot of changes to the software, which is currently uploaded to GitHub. My plans for the future are:Finish making the wheel grippier and make sure the tread doesn’t fall off.Make auto pathing software.Get a full drivetrain ready."}, {"post_id": 44981, "ts": "2026-08-11T03:18:09Z", "hours": 8.9275, "text": "After finding out about the previous issues in the last version, I finally finished version 2. This one uses different gears that avoid clipping and I changed a lot of the other tolerances. I also found a major thing that I got wrong in my design. Apparently somewhere along the line I dragged a component, which was messing up all the spacings and everything was out of line. I had to go back and fix all of that. I added a lot of convenience features for me to build this easier and made the pod shorter by a good 3 mm so I could actually add some aluminum protection on the ends to avoid the pod being damaged while driving. Overall I think there are a lot of improvements. Once I ship the mod and get the parts, I can finish building this pod and another pod to create a drive base. Hopefully I can finish programming it and hook it up soon so it works."}, {"post_id": 43735, "ts": "2026-08-09T04:35:17Z", "hours": 2.95, "text": "Just posted a devlog but forgot to publish my most recent timelapse and just wanted to give a couple updates. A lot of the tolerances for parts are highly dependent. When I’m inserting a bearing into a 3D printed part, I usually do 13.9 for a 14 mm bearing and 14.9 for the flange. Because some parts print really weirdly in a weird configuration or print vertically where the layers will collapse on each other, I had to make the outer race 15.2 mm and the inner race 14.2 mm, so 0.2 mm oversize instead of undersized. This gives proper tolerance.I also had a lot of weird print issues. I’ve been having a lot of stringing and I accidentally added supports on one of the parts so I’ve been losing a lot of material but it’s honestly taught me a lot as well.I attached a couple of pictures just to show you a difference from my last post. It’s been five minutes but it’s a slight difference. It’s just to show:- what I’ve gotten done- what I’ve assembled so far- what I’ve thrown away- what I’ve missed- okay this is an update after the 2-hour time lapse of me building an entire pod. There’s a lot of things but the biggest thing I noticed was that one of the bevel gears actually clips with the main drive ring gear, which ruins the entire model. This is the biggest issue I have to fix. Other issues I noticed were that assembling was very hard because a lot of the holes were too big and things would fall out when they were flipped over. I also didn’t have the right size screws often, which led me to have weird spacings. Mostly issues can be ironed out through CAD and now that I’ve built it once I can remember what went wrong. For the second version after I fix all these major and minor issues, I hope it’ll go much better and I can get a working pod that’s in size pretty soon for version two."}, {"post_id": 43078, "ts": "2026-08-08T04:46:01Z", "hours": 7.8169, "text": "I started recording and documenting this project halfway through the first revision. The first time lapse was me implementing the final preliminary designs, getting the encoder mounted, getting all the fittings correct, getting the bearing stacks right, and mounting everything in a way that it would technically fit in CAD. The second and third time lapses are mostly printing, getting tolerances right, and getting fits right. My first 3D build will be complete as soon as possible and I can get started on making revisions and iterations to improve the design. I think I focused a lot on trying to incorporate everything I saw. I looked at some designs online and reviewed everything that we needed to implement before hand. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of finding space for everything and putting everything in a nice compact fashion. I think after I get all the tolerances correct and finish assembling, this will be a great first iteration to improve upon. I hope this project can continue and I will get funding for my future prospects, which are getting this machined and getting higher quality parts."}]...
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Title: Differential Swerve by @precon | Stardance
Title: Differential Swerve by @precon | Stardance
Devlogs:
I started recording and documenting this project halfway through the first revision. The first time lapse was me implementing the final preliminary designs, getting the encoder mounted, getting all the fittings correct, getting the bearing stacks right, and mounting everything in a way that it would technically fit in CAD. The second and third time lapses are mostly printing, getting tolerances right, and getting fits right. My first 3D build will be complete as soon as possible and I can get started on making revisions and iterations to improve the design. I think I focused a lot on trying to incorporate everything I saw. I looked at some designs online and reviewed everything that we needed to implement before hand. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of finding space for everything and putting everything in a nice compact fashion. I think after I get all the tolerances correct and finish assembling, this will be a great first iteration to improve upon. I hope this project can continue and I will get funding for my future prospects, which are getting this machined and getting higher quality parts.
Just posted a devlog but forgot to publish my most recent timelapse and just wanted to give a couple updates. A lot of the tolerances for parts are highly dependent. When I’m inserting a bearing into a 3D printed part, I usually do 13.9 for a 14 mm bearing and 14.9 for the flange. Because some parts print really weirdly in a weird configuration or print vertically where the layers will collapse on each other, I had to make the outer race 15.2 mm and the inner race 14.2 mm, so 0.2 mm oversize instead of undersized. This gives proper tolerance.I also had a lot of weird print issues. I’ve been having a lot of stringing and I accidentally added supports on one of the parts so I’ve been losing a lot of material but it’s honestly taught me a lot as well.I attached a couple of pictures just to show you a difference from my last post. It’s been five minutes but it’s a slight difference. It’s just to show:- what I’ve gotten done- what I’ve assembled so far- what I’ve thrown away- what I’ve missed- okay this is an update after the 2-hour time lapse of me building an entire pod. There’s a lot of things but the biggest thing I noticed was that one of the bevel gears actually clips with the main drive ring gear, which ruins the entire model. This is the biggest issue I have to fix. Other issues I noticed were that assembling was very hard because a lot of the holes were too big and things would fall out when they were flipped over. I also didn’t have the right size screws often, which led me to have weird spacings. Mostly issues can be ironed out through CAD and now that I’ve built it once I can remember what went wrong. For the second version after I fix all these major and minor issues, I hope it’ll go much better and I can get a working pod that’s in size pretty soon for version two.
After finding out about the previous issues in the last version, I finally finished version 2. This one uses different gears that avoid clipping and I changed a lot of the other tolerances. I also found a major thing that I got wrong in my design. Apparently somewhere along the line I dragged a component, which was messing up all the spacings and everything was out of line. I had to go back and fix all of that. I added a lot of convenience features for me to build this easier and made the pod shorter by a good 3 mm so I could actually add some aluminum protection on the ends to avoid the pod being damaged while driving. Overall I think there are a lot of improvements. Once I ship the mod and get the parts, I can finish building this pod and another pod to create a drive base. Hopefully I can finish programming it and hook it up soon so it works.
I finished doing the remodel with new parts. A lot of it was updating existing parts to fix what I noticed went wrong in the test build, which made V3. A lot of it was improving the clearances and tolerances between parts to reduce friction and increase efficiency. I also made a lot of changes to the software, which is currently uploaded to GitHub. My plans for the future are:Finish making the wheel grippier and make sure the tread doesn’t fall off.Make auto pathing software.Get a full drivetrain ready.
It has been a long time working to fix all the previous issues. I think I have one of the most final versions of the model. I’ve only made very tiny tolerance revisions after the final version rebuild so I think I’m mostly stable for the CAD. I’ve been printing out everything to finally build both pods at once. I’ve compiled changes that I’ve done only on one pod or changes that should have plenty of clearance to work. Right now the final shell is printing. I’ll probably work on getting both pods disassembled tomorrow and reassembling them with brand new parts and it should all be coming together quickly. I also worked a lot on the code. I made the robot field-centric and also started using odometry to help out with the accuracy. I haven’t done anything with auto yet but I hope to do something with Pedro pathing to have an auto pathing system for my swerve. I’m pretty excited, to build the final version of my project and have a final product so this can come to a close.
OMGGGG got first build done
Finished the full build and got everything assembled. It was very rough but it worked. Found a lot of problems and then started and almost finished redesigning it. I hope to print this out in a stronger material and try again to maybe have a more successful design.
Final design and print, need a bit more money for stronger filament/manufacturing, so will ship and then finish the project.
Ships:
I made a differential swerve that is FTC legal, mainly out of 3D printed parts. The most challenging part was getting tolerances right, getting all the math correct, and getting the pod to fit in the build limit. I’m proud that it actually works. I have a working product right now and you should know that although the tuning can be a bit hard, the build is actually very easy. You can just download the files, print it out, get the parts, and build it in around a day or two...
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MiniPod by @anael | Stardance
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Title: MiniPod by @anael | Stardance
Devlogs:
DEV Title: MiniPod by @anael | Stardance
Devlogs:
DEVLOG 1 YOO! I started a new hardware project. The initial plan was something like an Ipod (looks and features), but it was too complicated for me. I then dumb downed the idea and started working on it. Researching about parts is really confusing but Gemini helpled a lot. I worked on the pcb and have ended the day by completing the pcb. This is my first personal hardware project ever, so I would love feedback/constructive criticism from an expert. Check out the planning, the schematics, and the pcb design.
DEVLOG 2 I finally made the body. Check it out! It is a little basic and simple, but I am going to accept it as it does all the functions. I imported pre built models of buttons first, but they couldn’t be edited, so I had to make them myself. I also decided to use some kind of stickers or markers to mark the buttons rather than inside fusion.
DEVLOG 3 Today I wrote all the firmware of the player. I basically wrote 2 scripts. A python script which renames all the songs into indexes (000-999) cuz the DFplayer plays in indexes. The second script was the actual firmware which I wrote in C. The first part (all the helper functions) was not that difficult, but the ardunio part was really time consuming and confusing. I will definitely watch some more videos on how ardunio code is written. Check out my Github Repo, and please give me your technical feedback! Most of this project has been using AI to guess the correct thing. That’s why I would love some feeback.
DEVLOG 4 I assembled the whole pcb. This was my first time soldering a PCB, and it was kinda fun. Everything was going okayish, but in the end I messed up by soldering the Ardunio nano chip’s pins together. I tried to fix it, but I wasn’t able to. I think I am gonna go to a hardware shop tomorrow, and ask them to fix it.
DEVLOG I re assembled the whole pcb but it still won’t work. I think there is an issue in the pcb design around the arduino nano due to which code doesn’t upload to it. I spent a lot of time trying to resolve it but it didn’t work. I will probably have to re assemble the project another time....
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Portfolio Website by @Aasrith | Stardance
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Title: Portfolio Website by @Aasrith | Stardance
Title: Portfolio Website by @Aasrith | Stardance
Devlogs:
Fully constructed the hero section of my portfolio website.
Working on the third section.
Done!
Finished the projects section
Completed the portfolio website!...
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rc car by @chrif | Stardance
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Title: rc car by @chrif | Stardance
Devlogs:
toda Title: rc car by @chrif | Stardance
Devlogs:
today i planned out the whole project and what i want the final product to look like and then a 3d model to place the components and see how the dimensions will fit together as well as picking the components needed for the bare minimum prototype
i added the spinning axles on the front and made space for the ball bearings since i couldnt find a model for them anywhere and shaped the axle to fing the standart rc car wheels (the yellow ones that are in every beginers kit) and made mounting holes for all the components now all thats left cad-wise is to make the gearbox and the rear axles and then i have to make the schematics and then the programming
i added the ball bearings that let the wheels turn and then i started working on the gearbox while fixing some design mistakes along the way, looking for how to get a 3d model of a bevel gear was a problem but that got solved quickly although putting them in place on the assembly was tough but when i went to add the axles that connect to the back wheels i noticed a fatal mistake i made is that i forgot that the wheels have to be on the same height yet i put the front wheels too high up or the back wheels too low down either way its going to be a hassle fixing it i wish i noticed it earlier
today i fixed the problems with the axles not aligning and then i finished designing the gearboxes and honestly it was easer than i though, before starting the project i thought it was going to be a way bigger prolem than it actually was now i only have the steering left and that will be all the cad work done for now i hope to tackle a more challenging project in the future
dude omg i made an error on the last devlog by putting the motor next to the two wheel gears without a differential so i thought “ oh easy i just need to add a differential and that’s it” it was not that easy. you can tell by the amount of time that i spent a lot of time trying to figure this out but i finally got it to work after endless mistakes and fusion 360 hickups and glitches and inconvenieces but im pretty sure it should work this time i just need to add the steering and we’re pretty much done with cad
i finished the cad and steering and now we need to do the schematics, the programming, and the case
i finished the schematics in kicad, then made the case/shell and made it link with the chassis using magnets then i made the github for the project and set everything up including the readme and exporting the bodies for 3d printing then i made the zine and with that the project is pretty much done (note: i might come back to it or reuse it for other projects and add stuff like cameras or path finding or ai detection or a bionic hand or something)...
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Simon_pocket by @joris | Stardance
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Title: Simon_pocket by @joris | Stardance
Devlogs Title: Simon_pocket by @joris | Stardance
Devlogs:
I created a block diagram to explain the gameplay of my project. I did it in diagrams.net. I really like how it looks and it makes my README.md way better. I also fixed file formats of some images, because github doesnt suppord PDFs in the README and i had a hard time exporting .svg files. I later realised that i can put a black rectangle behind my PCB svg and now the constrast is really good and i can see everything clearly.
I started 2 diagrams for my project’s code/game logic. I will put them in my README file on my github. At first i had a hard time figuring out how to display the code logic, but after talking to Gemini i decided to do 2 different diagrams: one for system state transitions and the other for how the code is structured. I attached images of both unfinnished diagrams.
Today I finished 2 diagrams for the code logic and took a screenshot of my Fusion workspace to put in my README file. I also took 2 images of the real soldered PCBs. The README is starting to look really good
I just soldered 2 PCBs by hand and 5 PCBs using a solder paste stencil. I was very suprised that the solder paste and stencil were easy to use. Using the stencil, i soldered 5 PCBs in about the same time it would have taken me to solder 1 PCB by hand. The stencil also improved the solder quality. It looks way better than doing it by hand. Even though i used a cheap solder paste, I still got great results.
I just updated the Simon_pocket housing 3D model. It now has a tighter locking mechanism and a thinner loop for connecting to key rings. I am also finishing up my README document. I have created all of the diagrams and pictures i need. I attached a picture of the old and the new versions of the housing.
I just prepared a few 3D printed housings and PCBs. My 3D printed parts have bridges that don’t turn out very well, so i need to use some tools to grind them down. I think that my filament is wet, so I’m experiencing this problem.
Ships:
I made Simon_pocket - a pocket version of the classic simon says game. I designed a PCB, wrote bare metal code for the microcontroller and designed an enclosure. I am very happy with the PCB and code, but it think that I need to improve my 3D modeling skills and make better models in the future. I am really happy that i was able to learn so much about the programming of STM32 microcontrollers even if it took a long time. In the future i hope to make projects with more interesting electronic circuits....
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ARIA by @darbens | Stardance
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Title: ARIA by @darbens | Stardance
Devlogs:
Toda Title: ARIA by @darbens | Stardance
Devlogs:
Today I continued working on my project and focused on getting everything organized and working together. I worked on the project structure, tested different parts of the app, and started preparing it to be something I can actually demo and use in a web browser. I’m still working through bugs and improving the UI, but the project is coming together. My next goal is to finish the main features, clean up anything that isn’t working properly, and get a working browser version ready to show....
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GAMAWORLD by @MuhammadAarez | Stardance
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Title: GAMAWORLD by @MuhammadAarez | Stardance
De Title: GAMAWORLD by @MuhammadAarez | Stardance
Devlogs:
I am making a game using a Godot engine. It’s completely new and so much fun. I am slow at it but I am learning a lot. So excited to work on it more....
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