The Quail's Nest

The only picture I could find remotely related to this post. I know, I'm amazing at naming stuff. Anyway, as if focusing two-ongoing projects wasn't enough, I've decided to launch a third one. This basically started off as an idea for an activity for my Computer Science class, but like all my ideas, it was too ambitious to fit that small mold and hence I decided to make it its own thing. We were told to do some kinda project based on cyber-security, and I got the idea of developing a game that tests your ability to gauge scams and online phishing techniques ( I need to brush up on those topics) and actively avoid them. The game would involve judging whether emails were harmful based on certain ques and traits and deleting them correspondingly (this was one of the first ideas that occurred to me). A number of players would all compete against each other for the fastest time taken to complete the game. They would be awarded points for every right action. An algorithm would be...

The Snake game is one of the oldest and most popular mobile games that first appeared on a Nokia phone or something. So I set out to recreate that game in Python just for the joke. I used Spyder. Modules needed: i) Pygame                              ii) Everything else is built-in. Because I'm bad at initiating stuff, this program was also based on ( read as 'copied from') a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/CD4qAhfFuLo The basic code is the same, I've only made cosmetic changes. Snake Because this project was basically copy-pasted, I felt a bit guilty ( just a little bit). So I decided to try to add a rudimentary self-playing algorithm. Basically, I tried to remove the 'game' part of The Snake Game and make it computer automated using a path-finding algorithm. After hours and hours of searching, I settled on the A* path-finding algorithm to do the work. But I ran into more prob...

This is an attempt to recreate the EDITH glasses from Spider-Man Far From Home in a believable manner. And with the budgetary restraints of a broke high schooler (with generous parents). Anyway, the main idea here is to implement facial recognition into effect and use display modules to display results in the eye lenses. This may not look polished, but its the closest we'll get with our current restraints. This project is highly derivative of JLaser's video which can be found here. I wouldn't say it was inspired, I would call it direct copying: https://youtu.be/Sj9ZQ20cgLA For this project I'm using a couple of components that are listed below: 1) Display module: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15173 2) Arduino board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15123 Now that hardware is out of the way, let's talk software: 1) Python (I'm using Spyder IDE) 2) Arduino 1.8.5 (This version works best with required packages and modules) Modules...