I'm a CS student who:

• codes far too many stupid things
• enjoys building computers, and currently has an AMD Ryzen 5 8600G-based system
• breaks far too many Raspberry Pi operating systems
• almost always does the harder and more time-consuming programming route instead of the easier but more tedious manual work route

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• Building a timetable generation program (in collaboration with @SuitablyMysterious and @goldenfootieSchool)

• Building a library system (in collaboration with @SuitablyMysterious - The-CS-Nerds/Library-System)
• Re-building the aforementioned library system (The-CS-Nerds/Library-System-v2)
• Home Assistant - Pi 5 running a local Home Assistant instance - possibility of using a mic kit to link this with Assist? - again, easier than I anticipated, with very good functionality. bit hacky sometimes though
• Python School Tools (1) - Quick and dirty Python script that takes user-provided timetable data and exports it in a specific .csv file format based on number of weeks of school, for easy timetable printing for planners etc. - quite interesting, if a bit janky in places
• PiHole revisited (v3) - Trying to diagnose why the internet keeps dropping while PiHole is managing the DHCP / DNS servers
• TV aerial revisited (v3) - Trying to stop the 3D printed case of the Pi 4 from melting

• TV aerial revisited - Pi 4 with a TV hat running a Jellyfin server, with TVHeadend .m3u tuner integration, linked to a Fire TV - fun, but a pain
• PiHole revisited - Pi Zero 2 W with an Adafruit OLED display for stats - easier than I anticipated with the new PiHole v6 API
• Python app that interfaces with the TFL API to fetch a station list and generate the shortest journey on all Underground lines (written in collaboration with ChatGPT) - _it broke, and would have been very difficult to make work with just the TfL API, as I was trying _
• Submitting pull requests to @SuitablyMysterious 's repos whether they like it or not (HippoProgrammer/gameJam-trappedOnThMoon) - very tedious and annoying for me, but worth it in the end
• Flask web app that interfaces with the Discord API to provide OAuth2 signin to my Discord server (HippoProgrammer3/testing-flask repo deleted) - again, quite fun, but Discord dev docs are awful
• 3D version of my Godot game, Super Forklift (https://itch.io/hippogamebuilder) - the assets (from @DrygiththeGM) were fun to voxelize, especially the top and the bottom, and look quite cool, but Godot 3D is not very easy
• Building a python hash library that is utterly terrible (HippoProgrammer3/python-hash) - this didn't work and development was stopped very early
• My first Godot game, Super Forklift (in collaboration with @DrygiththeGM) - Godot is a pain, and we ran out of time, but it was good for our knowledge
• Making a 3D printer play chess (@Hacking3DPrinters) - never tested, probably buggy, but fun to envisage
• Setting up PiHole on two synced Raspberry Pis - a nice challenge. shame it actually made the instances less reliable than before due to the jankiness, instead of the opposite
• Running Kodi with a TV aerial on a Raspberry Pi - this didn't work, but has been revisited now. Kodi is not very good in my opinion
• Creating a fake departure board on an e-ink display on a Raspberry Pi - very janky code, very good result, very good starter project for e-ink
• Locally hosting Moodle on a Raspberry Pi - very easy for the most part, has no valid use case for me but fun nevertheless
• Rewriting the Flask-Ask GitHub repo to work with modern dependencies - an absolute pain, and nearly got it working... then broke my Pi filesystem and had to reflash the SD card. take backups!
• Rewriting MultiWFN from ifort to gfortran (then learning other people have done it already) - my amazing technique of 'delete cmd-line options that break gfortran' was kinda broken, and i am surprised it actually worked. going into this with no knowledge of ifort or gfortran, or fortran at all, was an interesting choice. ifort docs are awful and i can see why people use gfortran instead
• Various other projects - like, a lot of other projects

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