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Retro computing and vintage MIDI
I’ve always had an interest in vintage computers, and has someone who wasn’t born until the year 2000 I didn’t get to experience a lot of this technology while it was current. However now that I am furloughed from my part time job I have a lot more time on my hands, and I have…
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ShareBot
I have created a Discord bot that is currently in over 200 servers and counting! The idea came to me when I was in a Discord voice channel with a friend, and we wanted to watch a video together. The typical way of achieving this would be to use an existing website such as mycircle.tv,…
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Cloud Bastion
As I mentioned previously, I have opted to create my own placement instead of getting on at an existing company. The company I am a part of, Campfire Games, have been hard at work on our first game which is called Cloud Bastion. It’s a simple, turn based J-RPG style game that involves randomized characters,…
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C++ Hovercraft Game
This was a project I completed as part of my degree last year, but I am only now getting round to adding it to my portfolio. We were tasked with creating a coding a simple hovercraft game using OpenGL and C++. We were expected to write code to import 3D models, manage physics (E.g create…
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Creating a games company
Instead of doing my third year of University this year, I’ve decided to do a placement year. However instead of working for an existing company I’ve chosen to start an indie games company called Campfire Games with 3 other people I’ve met while doing my degree at Coventry. I’ll keep the overview brief as all…
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Making Floppy Drives play music
I did this a few years ago – I bought an arduino and downloaded an open source program called Moppy; which allowed me to play MIDI files on a floppy drive. I made a few videos of it in action with the best of them being below:
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3D animation
For my coursework I had to create two 3D animations, one as a group and the other on my own. For the one I did by myself I had to follow a client brief. I used Blender to create the finished product which can be seen below: For the second animation we also used Blender.…
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Buying a server
I few months ago I bought a used Dell R710 Server from eBay and configured it to run VMWare ESXI. Currently it acts as a Domain controller, DHCP Server, DNS Server, WDS Server, a file server, a Minecraft server and a Plex Server.