Shipped a vending machine! And relived the past three years in lounge with Neil, then started dying coz of Neil's big brains!!!! Crazy day today... defeated half my class in history bowl whilst being on my own! had debate debrief...
happy customers!
the sun has set (quite literally now), thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who joined the Summer of Making!!! it’s hard to piece together words, so here’s a post i wrote… and the recap site I'm about to ship….
one thing I haven’t done yet is say thank you to a lot of people, so meet my thank you wall:
• thank you @roshan for being there literally always and being amazing, for bringing your. abundance of knowledge to #hardware-party and listening to me even when I’m not literate. you’re the best partner in crime!
• thank you to @athul & @annlee_fores, for being life savers (on multiple occasions) and stepping up to support with all the Indian grants. True life savers.
• thank you to @lachlanjc for guiding me through making the recap site, always supporting when ever I contribute to Scrapbook or the Site and for all their support in the fast few days. Plus just being super nice and cool!
• thank you to @cwalker for all their support with hardware over the summer and just being someone to talk things through with!
• thank you to @msw & @cwalker for all the lengthy convos we had pre-launch that helped lead SoM in the right way!
• thank you to @neel.redkar for building awesome things that were life savers!
• thank you to @zrl for being super supportive but also brutally honest at times! that brutal honesty saved us!
• thank you to @elisemoe for being super supportive of us and for helping me out with pitching to Adafruit & Arduino!
• thank you to @cp & @michael.destefanis for putting up with my banking incompetence and some of the shenanigans we attempted!
• thank you to @matthew,@amogh,@dinaelhanan,@tmb,@christina695,@melody for all being super cool and doing super cool stuff!
• thank you to @rishi for whilst not being directly on the team, had a massive impact :)
OH AND OFC THANK YOU TO EVERYONE HERE YOU ALL ARE SO FREAKING AMAZING THANK YOU FOR BEING COOLLLLL!!!!!!
heres the earliest photo i could find, i’ll let your imagination go wild…
Designed a graphic for Hack Club's tweeter!
Sunset over the Margret River; foreshadowing what is to come tomorrow...
I'm taking the bus all the way to school! Why? Because I got bored of being in a train and imo buses are just nicer... plus the seats are cushioned! You got to see so much more as well! Hopefully I'm not late....
here's my book week costume, yep, a 1984 shirt. I was planning to draw a dictator mustache on myself but I have to wear a mask.. I'm now regretting not getting those free single use masks yesterday :(
false info
schools going well, lots of tests coming up... thinking about whats next after school, don't really have a plan but maybe thats all too far ahead. just everyone around me seems to be so invested in university and i know like 4 and don't even know what i'd do! just want to have fun ahahaha
also planning out a new project! and starting to say goodbye to a massive one :(
tomorrows book week and I don't really have a costume but i want to go as big brother coz we're studying 1984 in class! here's a photo of my dressed up as a sailor from last june, dress up can be fun!
zooming with the debate squad / friends!! turned into a review of my scrapbook ahhahahaha!!!
school is going along well! got the first round of assessments starting tomorrow, math test should be easy. anyhow.. also got a lot of student council stuff organised.. managing such a big team is hard (22 people!!!) you know! also gems media crew is getting going!
for my scrapbook post here's a photo we needed to describe in mandarin today, here' what I made (with a lot of help, no judging):
我从这张图片中看到了:
一个老师在上网课，教室里没有一个学生。
老师把每一个学生的照片放在椅子上。
这是一个晴天，但是学生不能出门上学。
just got to perfect my speaking of this! we're starting to practise our mock IB internal assessments ahhhh why does school move so fast?
Early morning rush hour at Bishan... this morning I found out that I had won the GitHub Scavenger Hunt from Hackclon: wooohooo!!!
Playing around with adding easter eggs to the site! here's some rice tho:
Video call with Roshan and Elise! Also putting the finishing touches on the recap website! Thanks @lachlanjc for your feedback, only one checkbox to go! Last night, we launched the scavenger hunt which is fun!
remembering the awful time my friends made me drink hot sauce during a "talent show"... as you can see it did not go to well to say the least
Had our weekly student council meeting! Discussing how we can run socially distant events that engage the students, planning on trying to buy one of those big inflatable screens and doing a few movies under the stars with popcorn 🍿
Also planned out 10 or so more things for the semester! Everything from an open mic to escape rooms to a virtual MUN conference... going to be a busy for the council! So proud of the team :)
(here's a pre-covid photo of us fundraising money)
It's like public transport heaven in Yishun!
here's a photo of me forgetting my id card so i couldn't board the shuttle bus... but most days i take public bus anyways so it's all good ahahaha
any way #ship a solution to my massive issue, but then i got told off by the principal.... now I'm going to start using a lanyard coz this happens everyday (me trying to find either my bus card or my id card)
Added bonus, the safe distancing ambassadors! Making sure everyone keeps their mask on!
School getting inspected by the CPE for COVID19 prevention, I got distracted and get off at Khatib instead of Yishun and am now rushing to school... also we've got PE first class hopefully it doesn't get rained out! Also #shiped something yesterday, check it out!
Happy Monday! Empty double decker bus today, so I've got it all for myself!
took the mrt down to marina bay and had a walk around with my family tonight!
Planning out a massive school project today! Here’s a photo of my trip to the supermarket:
YESSSS LOOK WHO ARRIVED: MY VENDING MACHINE!!!! YIPPPEEEE VICTORY AT LAST!!!!!!
On the bus to school!!
2nd day back at school! Nice being back with friends, but already got homework here are some photos from my bus trip this morning:
Sunrise over the reservoir...
On the train to school!
anddd it's over.... tomorrow summer ends and it's back to school 🎒 went for a long bike ride around the neighbourhood and up Bukit Timah road.. it was boiling but still a nice time 😁 also played footy 🏈 (aussie football) and reflected a lot on the past few months, from school closing to the first Circuit Breaker in April then the second CB then that weird two weeks of half physical / half virtual school and then this long long holiday... it's been a rollercoaster 🎢
and now there's an uncertain future ahead... we'll be physically going to school each day but times change... got a student council to run, but what will we be allowed to do? also going to be getting the hack club up and going! oh and IGCSES ahh
thank you hack club for all the wonderful memories this summer i'll be around (but not as much hahha)!
here are some hearts from outside the CC that were put up for the bicentennial:
more food because food is good!! we went to a local bakery and got waffles for brekkie as a treat coz summer vaction is coming to an end.... last day tomorrow :( making a random game app thing with a raspberry pi to promote my club, will hopefully share a demo tomorrow!! also it was an interesting national day..... a weird one.... a sad one... best represented by this national workout video i keep on getting as an ad on youtube and this very slow sombre yet fitting national day theme song
Made Apple and Plum Crumble with my family, yummy!!!
my mum, brother and I went Palau Ubin today 🏝️ we cycled around it, had lunch, had an ice lolly, did more cycling, had another ice lolly and got on a boat.... ya and my mum made us take lots of selfies lol good time :)
From these "chicken scratches" (Mr Chao, 2020) to a fully ready system in just under 24hrs... exciting times you know!!! Also set something cool up with the squad at Adafruit who are cool like always 😎 and went to get lunch with dad
reizjdgoidrfj im addee this cool thing
had a great making session with @cwalker, building a cool project to end off summer of making built a landing page generator for OnePwaa events today and did all sorts of small things... here's a photo of me and my siblings in front of a bullet train in Shanghai
So here is an interesting story... next to my house we have this really really annoying drilling construction site so today I was so fed up I raged quit the house and went to this public seating area and sat there for the day whilst borrowing McDonald's free WiFi 🤫
Got a fair good amount of work done as well so that was neat
Footy is on! well kind off, in a socially distant way... we're in groups of 5 and can't do any contact but its great to have a run around with the footy.. also my dad accidentally signed up as a coach and ofc he's my group leader. i think he didn't know what sport we were playing its AFL not Rugby :/
any how today i started planning for our Hack Club for the semester realising that our first meeting is this month 😲 pretty happy with the progress so far made posters and just got a general plan together
ya just a load of small things... i'll leave you with a photo of my jumper which is this splendid aboriginal design
Today, I got the first draft of the site I was talking about complete, wrote a long email for an upcoming SoM event we're looking to collab with cool people on and also went to the hawker market to get some dumplings for lunch :)
Started building a new website using Next for the first time! I also planned out my CodeDay tech talk, and that's about it yep...
i really don't know what sort of photo to share so here's a photo of a waterpark in Johor Bahru that my family visited pre-COVID, super fun :)
CodeDay Labs Project ✅
Very proud to finish the project, biggest piece of software I've ever built despite my team and mentor completely bailing on me, it's finished! Going to do a more detailed ship when I'm not handling 10 things at once...
also worked with the Student Council on a new event for the upcoming school year, building a new site that I'm already proud of, had a haircut for the first time in 7 months so I am now missing a lot of hair feels weird, also trying to figure a few issues with hardware party 🤞Ignore just testing
I laid down on this tree net thing for half an hour....
you know the greatest showman soundtrack is verrryyy good 🎶
also our CodeLabs project is finished 🎉 , and grants are going, well tonight I'm playing around with a coding project that I want to ship tomorrow 🚢
this tree is quite cool, its like a net half way up the big tree as part of the SPH Walk of Giants.. also some more photos of the gardens
redid basically half of my codelabs project coz i found a major security issue with my code 😲 so that was stressful but all good now, sent messages to all those forgetful people and we're finally sending out some grants that i'd procrastinated on coz of all my bans (feels great yippeee)
because my room is boring, here is a photo of me and a pineapple i won 🍍 (my mom than went and chopped it up for fruit salad)
yeet speedy me caught up with all the hardware grants and DMs (though just through my last meeting that's ticked back up to 12 dms so gotta check them all), also had a couple of meetings tonight starting off with a OnePwaa org get together where we planned out our post-COVID camp situation and then a chat with @msw and @roshan about "sending money around the world". Finished off the night chatting with @itsmingjie,@saharsh and Tyler about CodeLabs but it turned into people bullying Airtable so...
idk what photo to share so here's the pizza I heated up today 🍕
Guess who's got their kayaking certification? Meeee, I completely fluked that "assessment" and now it's "safe" for me to kayak. I am a one star kayaker, I honestly didn't know you needed a certification to kayak so this weekend took an unexpected turn but was certainly one fun experiment! Also had fish and chips from this very British fish and chips shop, yumm
photos are of some art in the MRT I saw, a very empty mrt carriage and the fish and chips
This has certainly been a day to remember! Today my brother (Tom) and I headed down to Marina Bay / SportsHub Area to have some fun! We decided to do some kayaking 🛶 and now we're taking a two day course to get try our kayaking certification 📃 We kayaked around Marina Bay, it was really nice to kayak around Marina Bay Sands, the Gardens by the Bay and all the famous landmarks you'd associate with Singapore
We then went to Popeyes, to grab some lunch which was yummy as always 😋 They had these really nice little ice cream cubes that we shared!
Then we headed for a walk from the Stadium, heading up along the boardwalk and condos then to Marina Barrage and ending in Gardens by the Bay. (so basically walking around the reservoir we had gone kayaking on).
The first photo is of the water sports centre and the reservoir. The second is your famous Marina Bay group of buildings: Marina Bay Sans (the complex with 3 buildings and a boat on top), Gardens by the Bay (a new garden built next to the CBD), the Arts Science Museum (the white flower shaped building) and the Singapore Flyer 🎡. The third are the super trees at Gardens by the Bay, these are super cool fake trees. They are vertical gardens that house exotic plants, they collect rainwater for the garden, have solar panels to power their light displays and are engineering genius in my view 🌴 Then the fourth photo is of the CBD, with the gardens in the foreground. 🏢 The fifth is the National Stadium, which is the largest dome in the world, has a retractable roof and because Singapore is in the tropics a environmentally friendly bowl style cooling system that feels like air conditioning (trust me it's cool in their) but uses 15% of the energy. The sixth image is of the gardens again 🌻
I hope you enjoyed my tour of Marina Bay, good night you all I'm tired 😴
CodeDay project is getting along well!! Finished almost all of coding for the project and now have to work on documenting it! Hardware is also going pretty well
photo is of taiwan's mountains
📦 my day in emojis... and here's a photo of the sunset over Luang Prabang (Laos) really nice place, loved having the chance to travel there with my friends
finished the admin dashboard for my CodeLabs project! my part is almost done, just got a lot of writing to do
🚢 tried to ship out more hardware grants but every system in the world is against us right now :(
i had no clue what to do for today for my art so here's a Alpaca statue with my 5 alpacas (two of them are shy)
Today I worked on the UI of my CodeLabs project's admin dashboard and fixed a crucial bug, getting close to the finish line! I might even get the admin dashboard done tomorrow
Also loads of hardware grants stuff done, was up super late last night reviewing about 100 applications, but we did it! ✅
But let's not forget my daily piece of art:
Made some art for art week it's a nebula, I made it with paint and a toothbrush, I'm pretty happy with it! 🎨
Also today the student council hosted our first session with the kids at the rainbow center, had some fun over Zoom together
Worked on my CodeLabs project, made the admin dashboard with Flask.
And finishing off the day doing Hardware Party stuff
Today I worked with the Singapore STEM Club team on getting everything going again after a COVID hiatus also completely redesigned the site which I’m super proud of (will share when its all finished). We talked about what we wanted to do with the time, where we see the org going and pieced together what Phase 3 will look like for events. Also headed down to the library.
YAHOOOO THERE ARE NO MORE FINALISED CARTS TO REVIEW!!! We did it @roshan!! (though there's still more waves of applicants and we gotta make sure all these deliveries arrive, but let's celebrate?) Over 160 people have had hardware grants shipped to them! (don't forget you can still join in)
We had some family friends come over today, here's a photo of the yummy pavlova my mum made:
Super nice sunset from tonight! Did the usual today: CodeLabs Project, Hardware Grants and hopefully fixed a bug on the main summer website that stopped stuff from deploying (yikes).
But today we mixed up! Alongside a few other Student Council members, we met the kids from the Rainbow Centre for the first time It's a school that helps special needs students and we're going to be running all sorts of fun activities for them next week We're also hoping to build a long term partnership with them! And guess where it all started? with a cold email I sent months ago! Super excited to see it all coming together, I was a very proud president with all the great work everyone was doing and how dedicated they were to helping out!
Today I did more small things: codelabs project, hardware grants and a scrappy bug fix! Me and @vitaliy172 just spent hours getting his hardware to ship (fun lol). And here are some photos from me collecting my monthly mask rations! This time I got two reusable masks instead of one and I could get them from a vending machine. The new masks are lighter and more breathable though they don't have as great of a fit as last months... also the government went light mode! 😷
(third one for the photography contest)
Got quite a lot down today! We're almost finished all of the hardware grants Soon Scrapbook will have a page for all your mentions! Met with my CodeLabs mentor for the second time! And working more on our project.... to end here are some photos of the local wet market:
Using Twillio to build my CodeLabs project! (I'm worried I'm going to run out of credits)
🎉 🎂 🎊 Happy birthday @neervikasv! Today I went to my friend Neer's birthday party! It may have been a rainy day in Singapore but we still had loads of fun! We tried Five Guy's Milkshakes, eat a lot of Nandos and escaped from a very suspensful Escape Room: Tekong Army Bunk! The best part though has to be this fantastic gift wrapping (Diaso is awesome) that turned into a funky costume:
(i am submitting the landscape photo for the photography contest)
Pretty chill day, didn't do too much! Did some coding, hardware grants ofc and ate the cookies my brother made! Here are some photos from my walk tonight:
Working on our second wave of hardware grant applications!
really loving you canada /s
This is probably the most interesting thing in my Figma account: I was used it to design an "app" about Jackson Pollock in Grade 7. It was a virtual trading cards sort of thing. Here's some of the planning docs. Also the one on the far right is so I could do an effect for a video. Figma is pretty neat.
Working on my CodeLabs project, building a contact tracing tool!
2,000 commits!
success!!! 🇳🇬 Nigeria: the hardware circus is coming to town!!!
sending out more hardware grants today! also received fantastic news with loads of grants arriving and now im working out how to ship stuff to Brazil 🇧🇷
My version of the Octocat. stickers+arduino+raspberry pi+circuit playground express+headphones = this....
trying out react for the first time actually by following this intro doc: reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html also i can now develop apps locally, big big thank you to tom preston warner!!!
Second day of debate championship! Won 2 more and lost 1 more. We finish with a 3-2 record! s/o to my teammate Sara for getting 11th best speaker
Today was pretty relaxed, shipped out more hardware, made an important PR to scrapbook, met my CodeLabs mentor and chatted to the debate team a bit more about tomorrow. I'll leave you some photos from my sunset walk. I really like to architecture of this school...
Went for a super nice late night walk around the suburb and the botanic gardens! It's was a super nice evening, perfect temperature and a good breeze!
the first hardware grant arrived at someone’s doorstep!!!
It's election season in SG, so I decieded to do more research into SG politics today. Here are some photos of election posters:
Hardware grants are starting to get shipped!!! 🎉
Heading to the doctor... fun...
working on more exciting things for summer of making!
Didn’t feel too great today, reported some bugs on our Summer of Making site, also went to the shops, watched a documentary on the Cultural Revolution, read some hardware shopping lists and wanna do some chill coding tonight, also listened to some pretty nice music
my old profile picture was very boring.. this one not so boring
More sneak peeks
Making an exciting new Slack bot
Working on a new website for Summer of Making
Got all the first wave accepted people there acceptance letters and on to the slack and then provided loads of support. After about three read throughs each of 100,000 words worth of applications its really good to be confident with our choices and send out these emails. Big shoutout to @roshan for all their support. Now comes the sad part… rejection letters… now their a whole different level
👀 putting this here before it all goes downhill lol
Attended the annual Singapore Debating championship (virtually)
Hosted Wikipedia Races for Summer of Making!
I just found that my app was showcased on the student gallery as well!
Moved my website onto Netlify CMS & Jekyll because I’m lazy and don’t want to edit HTML to update my site! site @ sampoder.com
Got my Google Cloud t-shirt from the #MajulahGCP contest in Singapore
Every single hardware applicant has received a preliminary review. Done (for now).
i basically i have no clue how these things work, but i’m working through the problems very slowly and having some fun! these are pretty addicting even for bigtime noobs
Reviewed “basically” all of the wonderful hardware grants! (my brain hurts from reading like 75,000 words)
Sent out the first follow up email for all the hardware grant applicants
schedule sent an email with a cool idea to someone, hope it actually happens!
we wrapped up the onepwaa wscamp! live events still freak me out, but i’m super happy the stream never actually broke! i also made the pwaachive which has all the materials from the camp: pwaachive.onepwaa.org
🚀 😃 Loads of emoji features in Scrappy!!! Emoji translator should translate these emoji and scrappy should now react with a random emoji not just a sun!
if you are a scrolling god, you now get a nice message at the bottom of the scrapbook site
🔥 So you’ve got a super streak... now what? How about displaying your streak on your personal website! I’ve created a small widget that you can put on your website with just two lines of code!
Dough making science experiment
And that wraps up Day 1 of WSCamp Online! Was stream manager for the day which was stressful but we got it done! also ended the day adjudicating a debate which i had never done before
hosted a kahoot for summer of making!!!
Designing stream graphics for the OnePwaa WSCamp that's tomorrow
I survived Grade 9!!!!!!
its time to settle the tabs vs spaces debate using all the data you give us when you request hardware
8 hours and one goal: make a video introducing summer of making. with icloud deleting all the original files from melody’s account it was a challenge. and here’s the final result:Who's been keeping up with their streaks?
working on adding some scrapbook posts on the website
Playing with my circuit python express, little thing that turns red when it gets loudfinished off my dumb api i made for my hack club so we can display stuff on ur static site without leaking everything
making css stuff (also this css gets rid of my 23samuel.p username which is quite cooldesigning a thing
more stuff
the end of school is driving me insane, so boredom has created: