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she/her | 20 | amateur pixel artist, aspiring game dev reblogs at @dragonsreblogs

[officialdragonslayr]

hi, i'm april

im' a pixel artist and a game dev. i made idle void. it's nto much. i also made a picrew that i'm really proud of and took ages. i'm working on somehting else now.

soemtimes i will jsut say shit here: #dragon says

i draw thigns! that's what a pixel artist does: #dragon's art

i record some... thigns in my spare time: #dragon's recordings

i don't liek takign pictures of myslef but when i do: #pictures of myself

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ko-fi.com/dragonslayr15001

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My latest Bad Keyboard: The MCKeyb!

I built a keyboard in modded Minecraft, then hooked it up through a webserver and a wireless microcontroller, so it appears as a USB keyboard on a different computer. I then used it to post "Hello World!" to bluesky, from minecraft.

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Technical details: So the minecraft side is relatively simple. It's 30 ComputerCraft computers running identical code that simply monitors the back of the computer for a redstone signal. When it sees one, it makes an HTTP call to localhost:3000/<COMPUTER ID>.

(Computer IDs are simply the order in which I placed them down, and are effectively random.)

that local webserver is a small Flask application:

It manages shift key state (since the keys don't know about each other, the "A" key can't know if it should send "a" or "A") by toggling an internal shift value when the shift key is pressed. It translates the scankeys to ASCII values, and UDP's them to the microcontroller.

The microcontroller is a Raspberry Pi Pico W, running a simple arduino sketch that connects to the wifi and listens for UDP packets. When it gets one, it presses that key to the attached computer.

I ran minecraft on my main laptop (windows 10), and opened firefox to bluesky on my linux laptop, with the Pi-Cow plugged in via USB. It worked quite well, other than having to synchronize OBS across both computers to record this video.

this heavily minimalist keyboard can't type numbers or special characters other than space and !, but it can be trivially expanded: Simply place down another computer with a button on it in Minecraft, copy the code onto it (I did this using ComputerCraft floppy disks, because I'm Me), and then modify the Flask app to turn that new computer-id "scancode" into the proper ASCII value.

The minecraft modpack is ATM9:To The Sky with Alphabet Blocks by DragonSlayr15001 added:

https://modrinth.com/mod/alphabet-bloc

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also this is the only keyboard I've built (so far) which has had filming paused due to llama.

(I'm in creative mode on peaceful, I didn't realize that left the wandering traders turned on)

[officialdragonslayr]

oh my god???? thsi is incredible! i've done codign of my own in computercraft btu nothing compared to thsi... and you used alphabet blocks for it? wow!

here's the full link to the mod (since it got cut off in the psot):

Alphabet Blocks - Minecraft Mod

A mod that adds decorative letter blocks

thsnk you so mcuh for usign it!

[officialdragonslayr]

htae havign to pay $20 a month for somethign thst doesn't even seem liek it's doign shti

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haet thst it costs liek. $150 jsut to ask a doctor soem questions

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please help

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got my ocmputerbakc, depression goen :3

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the worst part about thhsi shitty situation is thst really, no oen cna help me out of it

i'm stuck here forever

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please help

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free housign and food and internet and the ability to do whatever i want stress-free woudl fix me, i think

idk i've nver had it before

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remember when i barely coudln't pay my data bills well nwo i have bigger problems. i can't afford food. i cna't aafford hrt. i cna't afford jack shti and i swear if it's still liek thsi at the end of the month i'm, no joek, goign to throw myslef into the fuckign ocean

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honestly nto even gonna gte out of bde todya. i'm nto doign anythign anwyay

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the sufferign jsut. nver stops huh