When I think of Ace, I first think of "Ace of Seafood" the silliest fish game I know of.

I'm honestly surprised that subprotocol wasn't used by IoT coffee and tea devices.

In my area, it's because there's no public transportation (at all) so the school district has its own fleet of buses exclusively for bringing children too and from school. It's not uncommon in the US for towns to have no public transportation.

The game I'm working on is called, "Astral Skies" (previously Abound). It is a side scrolling 2D sandbox game oriented around space exploration. It is inspired by a game called Starbound.

It's crazy how large your filament collection can get without you noticing

I'm also taking a 2-3 week long break on Forge to focus on working on my game for an upcoming game dev expo that I'll be showing it off at.

I've been planning out the upgrade path for Forge and got the software into a lab ready state for a research project the lab is doing right now. I'm also in the middle of upgrading the control board on mine, but have been procrastinating compiling marlin for it.

I always write down my ideas even if I think I'll remember them, because later on I'll want to do something, but won't be able to remember any of the good ideas I had.

I remember when that game launched and wanting to give it more time to improve before giving it a shot. I'm sad to see it ended up getting abandoned. It had some great potential.

Yeah, then you can use a program on your pc (and an app on your phone) to then programmatically take pictures at specific spots and stitch them together.

It really is. The entire setup cost me less than $650, but I'm working on making it compatible with any generic USB camera which will bring it under $500.

On the bright side, as long as I'm willing to ignore the "image stitching" requirement, I can technically throw anything that can fit in a 9"x9" area under it (or 15.75"x15.75" if I convert my large format printer)

Once you get to really high levels of zoom you start to run into the issue that it becomes harder to accurately stitch the images as traditional image stitching algorithms don't work as well. I had to develop a custom image stitching algorithm for tree samples due to this.

I'm doing a similar thing for scanning tree cores since flat bed scanners were too low res, but the fancy machine that can do this was too expensive.

I'm using a cheap camera and a 3D printer to move the camera, then stitching together the images afterwards to form one really big image.