Days 31-34/365:
- The calculator works I guess, I put it back together since there's no point in using only half of a perfectly good calculator
- Learned a bit more about electrical engineering at my afterschool robotics club (of which EE hasn't met in months)! Came home with 7 severed USB-A heads yesterday (nobody else wanted them)
Some goals for February:
- Ship 2 Flavortown games (including the one I'm already working on)
- Finish my macropad
- Put up more Flavortown posters at my school
- Get up to day 40 of Onshape
Days 29 and 30/365:
- Got through Day 18 of Onshape
- Finally took apart that calculator! With the help of a friend in engineering, I got the calculator working (as well as it did before, anyway) even with half the case missing! Its battery has a problem and it still won't actually turn on (it gives a "validating OS..." message, shuts off, reopens, gives that message again, shuts off, so on indefinitely; that was the initial problem that had given me an excuse to take it apart), so tomorrow I'd like to swap out the battery with a better one to see how the calculator runs when it should be fully functional.
• Pic of that sweet beautiful (somewhat blurry) circuit board
Day 28/365:
• Started work on the track for my game, the first 18 seconds are attached (seeing as that's all I currently have). The full track should ideally be 3+ minutes long
• Did days 16 and 17 (hehe) of the Onshape tutorial
• Drew a sticker for flavortown
• Most of the snow has melted by now and school reopens tomorrow, which sucks on the one hand...but on the other, that means I can finally take apart that calculator tomorrow!Day 27/365:
• Day 3 of sledding, the snow wasn't as slippery today, so it was way less fun. Probably the last I'll sled all year knowing the weather in my area...
• Implemented that system for my Flavortown game...then realized it was trash and removed it. I'll have to compose a new track for the game eventually (hopefully tomorrow; knowing myself, probably not)
• Opening that calculator will have to wait until Thursday, my school is cancelled tomorrow as well
• Finally did some more work on my macropad! I had been stuck on configuring the keys...and to be honest, I still am, but I'm a little further than before, so that's...decent?
• Randomly decided to make this choppy animation for a very birdbrained friend of mineDay 26/365:
• Did a lot more sledding
• watched a bit more Mighty Nein
• Have a system I want to implement in my Flavortown game, didn't have time today but will hopefully add it tomorrow
• I wanted to open up my broken calculator today, but I don't have a fitting screwdriver for the screws it uses. I'll see if my comp sci classroom at school has the screwdriver type I need on Wednesday
• A friend sent me this masterpiece
• Uhh images, here's another screenshot of the little guys on my PCB (now in 3D view!). I love them so much.
Day 25/365:
• Went frolicking in the snow (almost lost my sled in a lake and had to wait 30 minutes for the wind to carry it back to the shore...)
• Started watching the actual Mighty Nein D&D game after having almost finished the animated show (don't know how much I'll get through because it's so long)
• All that's left to do for my macropad now is program the keys and submit it. I even put a bunch of little guys on the PCB silkscreen
Days 19-24/365:
Wow, it's been way too long since the last update
- 15 videos through that Onshape tutorial series, I'm really liking it so far!
- I haven't made any more progress on CADing P03 since the main body is already about done. I'm planning on adding the arm and crank as separate, screwed in parts, so I'll work on that after I learn how to CAD screw holes
- Been working on the macropad tutorial from Blueprint and am almost done with it
- I had a malfunctioning computer mouse that I took apart and am now pretty sure I know how to fix! (I'll have to CAD a new case for it and something to replace the part that broke). I'll be taking apart my broken calculator next...hehehe
- pic of my mouse for reference, there's supposed to be a little plastic part connecting the two wheels in the red circle, but it broke (and now I lost it, too, because it's so damn small). It being opened up is entirely intentional...but I might have broken something in the case while prying it open (it's fine, I'll have to CAD and print a new one anyway)
Days 16 - 18/365:
- Did ~40 minutes of work on my flavortown game
- started learning Onshape using this tutorial, got through 9 videos
- I'm working on CADing P03 inscryption now
