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benMakesStuff

@benMakesStuff

Joined June 1st, 2026

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I am a student in Australia. I have always liked anything related to technology, specially robotics.
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i did the basic conway’s game of life, its got all of the rules and it works pretty good. And i experimented with changing the rules’ parameters and if there is anything changed either the cells die really easly (for example reproduction to 4 neighbors instead of 3) or they never die (reproduction 2 neighbors) and its just not good. So the balance is perfect with the normal rules. And while brainstorming how to make it a game more like me and better. And i got this idea to make a multiplayer game that just grabs different players and gives them some space (a grid) where they can build some cell structures and whoever’s structure is last alive wins

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i did some pretty amazing work, i finished all of the firmware and it was a lot easier than what i expected. My firmawre has 2 layers and rn it the first layer is only for numbers like a numberpad/calc and then the second layer its all of the weird functions a normal laptop keyboard has hiddent in like the 15 millionth layer so ye. And i also did some repo organization and stuff and i am ready to ship i just gotta finish rating from another project and done.

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I made an app that u just input ur ideas and it saves them and u can just check them and ye.
Ive always had problems remembering my ideas so i made this kinda idea dumpster and i have not used it for that long but it has defenitly helped in me not reling on google docs as idea dumpsters.

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I made the case and it looks pretty good. And i also tried to do the firmware but i got a little confused so i stopped cus i was too tired to keep going but hopefully i will ship in the next 2 days and its looking pretty amazing rn. And i also organized my repo and now is divided into cad, pcd, and firmware. And i think it would be really nice for me to do the firmware by hand.

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, i had to redesign it…. AGAIN. Cus i found out that the 3d thing doesnt make any sense at all cus its just eyeballed it doesnt actually follow any patterns therefore it just doesnt make sense if i try putting a top case (which i would rlly like) and i redigned it following this dude’s tutorial on youtube and it worked and it looks even better now. only 2 hours later. Now im into the cadding.

Also i added some pretty nice silkscreen

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I finished the things that needed fixing, did the edit button, the search up bar and deployed it. I knwo this project was small but it was just a tool that is fast to do and also to use and i just really want to finish off some projects before stardance ends.

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I started the idea and it starts looking a little how i want it. And if u dont know what im doing, im doing a page where u can just make a project idea and then have it there and just keep it there cus i always have like 100000000 ideas but by the time i have free time for them i have already forgot the 99% of the ideas i had. sp i made an idea dumpster and then i can search up an idea and everything.

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Finsihed the amazin pcb and it looks pretty decent for being my first one and yes it looks pretty good.

But i had some probelms, first i organized everything and found out it was more than 100x100 mm so i had to rewire and organize the microcontroller underneath the potentiometer. Then doing the DRC i found out i had the microcontroller on the same side as the rotary encoder, so i had to rewire, then i found out it was overlapping with a pin on the rotary encoder so i had to move it again.

With a total of 4 rewireing i finally finished and its looking amazing

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I made a cybersecurity teaching app. Its target audience is upper primary school kids or lower highschool (also called middleschool). It has multiple features including minigames, chatbot, email simulator, courses, password strength checker, report page (just a demo, dosnt actually send SOS), xp systems, streak systems, and some peak animations that took me a really long time to make.

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ye7eyeyyeyeyeye. I finally finished and its looking decent, its got 3 minigames and it is just good stuff. One of the minigames are one URL detector, matching pairs, and a priority thingy sorter. And im deploying rn, so better be ready to rate. and i also got confused 3 times with how to deploy so i hav deployed 2 times, the first one i took a template for deploying flutter from the internet and forgot to save it then i pushed and found out it didnt push, then the second time i put it but forgot to put my repo name on it so it didnt work, and then the third one i am doing it rn so hopefully it works

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I finished the course engine, xp systems and everythign tah needed finishing with the exception of minigames. But i had like 4 hours that didnt go through because my school laptop broke and then they gave me an loan, so i needed to reinstall everything then some days later they gave me my laptop back WIPED so i had to reinstall everything again and i tried redoing the mascot on RIVE but sadly i suck at designing and it took me 4 hours to make a new mascot that didnt work so just bad stuff happening and the app is due in 4 days and i still have so much stuff to do, so yes im gonna pull all nighters for the next 4 days.

and i also reached my first 100 hours in hackatime.

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I finished the grading engine (it had a critical bug), made a course engine and got some friends to make courses, and i made some sick animations in the thing (video below) and it looks good but i also did something with vs code and now it the run button doesnt work and now i have to run it from the terminal

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I made the scenario models, data (over 30k emails can be generated), grading algorythm, and scenario UI. And the project is due on 3 weeks and i have so much stuff to doooooooo.

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so i started working on a pattern generator for greeble but i am planing on making a huge reserach (for the mathematic parabolic curve and its parameters) and i dont want to google anything or ask ai so its going to take some time.

The pattern consists of dividing a shape (like a cross) into intervals and then you connect the first and last (and then the second and the second last, until all of the intervals are full) interval of each side and then when they are connected it will look like a curve.
it was innitiallly supposed to be the astroid shape but it kinda changes whne you add more corners

Then i proceeded to make it have more corners than 4 (not a cross anymore) and it looks really nice, and i also made it so you can change the intervals and the color.

And when i was testing overlaping 2 of these (lets call them string-stars) the more intervals you put the thiner the star gets so its really amazing and i dont understand why.

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I started with the schematics and pcb. and i decided for a 65% exploded with one knob. and after i understood how to connect stuff i decided not to have a screen but only one knob, and i will not have any rgb lights anymore too.

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