First challenge - see what the Playdate can do in terms of 3d. There are some sample projects showing a few simple 3d systmes, so using them as a guide I set about making myself a simple 3d engine using the C API.
I’m glad that the satisfaction from getting the first graphics output working is still there after all these years! Ha, who needs Unity?
First demo under the cut…
I was gifted a Playdate Handheld console a couple of years ago but didn’t do much with it until now. Got the urge to do something creative again so here’s the behinning of my escapades trying to do something with it. More info about the Playdate on the official site.
Somehow in a blog mostly covering programming, here’s my most nerdy recent escapade - railway modelling.
A RasPi home thermostat script for controlling slow underfloor heating. More details and source code available at https://github.com/delomelas/py-ufh-therm
FrameSpan update 4 - the latest on my Android app for creating a stabilised video from a sequence of still images taken of the same thing over a long period of time.
My neighbours re-built their extension. I took a picture of it every morning to generate this:
FrameSpan update 3 - a simple Android app I’ve been developing to produce stabilised videos from a sequence of individual photos.
FrameSpan update 2 - an Android app to help produce stabilised videos from a sequence of still pictures taken of the same thing over a long period of time.
Early preview of output from FrameSpan! I’ve been taking the garden picture every day for about a month now…
I’ve somehow been working on this for three years or so, but I’m not sure where to take it next.
It’s a tool to create stop-motion/time-lapse videos, intended for use over a long period of time. Think, maybe, recording the growth of a tree, watching a building site construction, or tracking the changing seasons.
A brief stint playing an old strategy game when I was very young left me with a long-standing desire to make something similar. After a few false starts, it was the release of the Android platform that finally got me on the way to creating my vision of a simple-yet-deep multiplayer strategy game.
With a bit of free time between jobs in 2019, I set about making a new Android app in a month or two. Mostly to get back into a bit of software development after a long time off, and dip my toe into the latest Java and Android dev techniques.
The result was Chartimo - a super-simple app which produced charts based on numbers you enter. I’m using it to track my weight, I’m sure there are a million other uses.