The Quail's Nest

Say hello to Frankie. He doesn't do much. Yeah. I kinda realized how I never ended up naming the project. I wanted something like EDITH, but I wanted it to be different enough to feel like its own thing. So we're gonna stick with EDDIE for now. As always, I have some new plans in mind for the project. That's the thing with us procrastinators, we're really good dreamers, but when it comes to execution, we rarely give our full 100% effort. On a side note, Tim Urban has really good posts on the topic of procrastination over on his blog Wait but Why which you should check out if you've got some free time and want to have a good laugh at people like me. Tim Urban's Ted Talk Ok so, in my first post, I mentioned how I was basically trying to recreate a project from one of Jlaser's videos.  I also kinda made fun of myself in my earlier post for basically copying most of my projects from other people's existing projects. As I've gotten slightly more experien...

I literally have no idea where this picture is from. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to CHEAT! , the only game show where you're rewarded for cheating! I tried doing a gameshow host impression but since I don't watch any TV, I have no idea how gameshow hosts act. Okay so yeah. Not really a game show, but I did come up with an idea for a verbal game. Before I get into the specifics on how the game is played, it's better to define some terms first. Host - This is kinda self-explanatory. The host is the one who'll be asking questions. Except for this time, the host isn't permanent. Every round the host changes. Players - Players. Nothing else to it. Candidate - The player who is being questioned by the host. The way the game works is that a player is selected to be the host. This can be completely random, or it can be turn-based, that part's up to you.  Once the host is selected, he/she now has to think of a topic or an activity in which it would be difficult and/o...

A totally REAL and true cake. Now, I'm not natively good at creating games. I only know marginal Unity and I've never dabbled in anything outside that. But videogames are what got me INTO coding and programming so I wanna keep that spirit alive. I haven't really created many games outside of Python and PyGame. I tried learning Unity a while back and that didn't really go anywhere. But I plan to reignite that candle and look into this in my 'free' time. SECOND PERSON NARRATIVE GAMES: I saw a  Youtube video . Nick points out how there's a big gap in the market for second-player narrative videogames. He also mentions how 'Driver: San Francisco' is a game from his childhood that dabbled into the design possibilities of having such a game structure.  Now I don't normally play a whole lotta racing games (except for Forza Horizon, I still love you), but I LOVE games with gimmicks, so this one checks that box for me. This game allows you to switch bodies...

This is a quail's nest. A very rabid quail. This blog serves to document my projects and my slow descent into insanity. If you're into that kinda stuff, you could follow, but honestly, why would you want to? 

This is a tangential post. So I know I said in my last post how I was probably going to relaunch the E.D.D.I.E. project under Raspberry Pi instead of Arduino, and well.....I did. So let's run this down, old-school-style: Hardware: 1) Raspberry Pi Zero WH ( I specifically selected this so I could have the glasses not be bulky with an oversized board mounted on it.) 2) There's no other hardware.....except for one SPECIAL thing, but I'll introduce that later. Software: 1) Nothing special, just the standard Raspbian image download thingy. (I'm super duper professional, trust me, you guys.) Also, if this post sounds kinda unpolished, its because I'm typing this late at night and I really don't feel like staying up longer. I don't know why I'm doing this, no one is forcing me to do this, but I'm doing it anyway.  Well, I guess I can just edit stuff later if I want to. So now, we get into the meat of this post.  You know how the Raspberry Pi requires a disp...

This is a different type of Django. The hardest part of writing these blog posts is deciding the picture to go along with them. You know what's the fun part? Creating labels. I discovered Blogger allows you to categorize posts using labels and I've been using them vehemently ever since. I'm a sucker for alliteration, and using it on creating labels is by far the best thing Blogger offers. It was probably a bad idea to create this blog using Blogger. Now don't get me wrong, I love the innate simplicity of Blogger, and this thing isn't supposed to be professional anyway, but Blogger is so old that people don't realize that blogs can be followed to get updates on new posts. Even I didn't know that until like a month ago.  But I guess the purpose of this blog isn't to attract followers, it's to give me a platform to document developments on my ever-expanding list of incomplete projects. What new thing do I have now? Well, I got interested in web developm...

ooooh, its corona! Ahh, yes. It's been approximately a week since my last project launch, so it means I have something else to start now while all my other projects are pending completion. I swear I'm not this spontaneous and erratic irl; it's just that quarantine has been blessing me with ideas so plentifully that I'm afraid this waterfall will come to an abrupt end. Better make the most of it and jot all these ideas down! So, this time the idea is specifically related to COVID-19. I entered a competition called the Corona Code Zone which was part of the Amity Youth Festival Forum that Amity University was holding for High school students a few weeks back. As the name suggests, the Corona Code Zone required us to create a program that takes in user input data like body temperature, age, and medical history to ascertain their likelihood to contract COVID-19. Admittedly, the competition was a lot less polished and refined than what the participants were lead to believe. ...