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Began prototyping ideas!
First idea is: you’re controlling earth with a huge canon and try to get the planet flung outside of the solar system. I like it, but it’s quite hard to implement exactly what I want, so I might give up on this idea 
In the meanwhile here’s one of my tests:
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Tried more midi files, I will soon begin working on fixing the python script to handle note pauses
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I started by making sure the project is even doable-by using https://github.com/VihangaNethmaka/MIDI-To-Arduino-Converter to play a midi file using a buzzer. And it worked! But it didn’t handle pauses at all, which is something that I’ll have to fix
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Slack links create an extra newline on the database, which would mean that if the bot tried to fetch that row, it’d be empty and it would just no reply. Fixed that!
Also added a proper readme and license file.
Project is ready to ship!
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Drew a nice pfp for Connie!
It’s so nice that Lapse can count art and hardware time too
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I was wrong, it did work after a restart of the nest service. Hooray!
The first version is basically done?
/article or /video fetches a random video or article a hackclubber has submitted to the bot
/submit-article or /submit-video let’s you add to the list of articles and videos!
You can try it right now using /cn-help to view all commands!
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Would you believe me if I said writing this line properly took me two full hours of testing and failing?
sadly it now doesn’t work on the server side
I’ll have to rewrite this again
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To begin the project, I followed the slack bot mission’s tutorial! I’ll build on top of that as a base