Re:Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
by winrid on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:21AM
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Yes!! Bots are so fun to make and just have run. Like forever running rube Goldberg's machines :)
For over a year I had a Pi with a camera in a window at my Parents' house that took a photo every 15mins and uploaded to a server of mine. Then I had a mechanism to play back as a video. It was nice to watch the seasons go by while on the other side of the continent. They weren't very good at keeping it plugged in though.... Backend was in Play2/Scala since it was hip at the time and client in Python.
I worked on software for devices mounted on powerlines and had to build that functionality. That inspired me to have my own.
Have a Screeps bot in the top 20. About 40k lines of JS...
Working on a bot that can quickly connect you to a real person at https://watch.ly
Definitely want to build more. Following this thread for ideas. :)
For over a year I had a Pi with a camera in a window at my Parents' house that took a photo every 15mins and uploaded to a server of mine. Then I had a mechanism to play back as a video. It was nice to watch the seasons go by while on the other side of the continent. They weren't very good at keeping it plugged in though.... Backend was in Play2/Scala since it was hip at the time and client in Python.
I worked on software for devices mounted on powerlines and had to build that functionality. That inspired me to have my own.
Have a Screeps bot in the top 20. About 40k lines of JS...
Working on a bot that can quickly connect you to a real person at https://watch.ly
Definitely want to build more. Following this thread for ideas. :)