When I was in El Nido, I saw this guy flying a white drone. It was very stable and I didn’t know what brand it was. Turns out, it’s a DJI Phantom quadcopter. I was very ready to buy one when I got back until I realized, I don’t want to break it just like that…
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Hydroponics, Toys & Games
Adventures of a First-Time Hydroponics Gardener
by Kat Padilla • • 1 Comment
From now on, I shall call myself a hydroponics gardener. Why? Well aside from my day job as a programmer, I think I may have found my new (chill) hobby and I like it. It first started as one of my friends enrolled himself in a gardening workshop and I got curious. I told my officemate…
Code, Toys & Games
Time-Lapse Video Generator Using Raspberry Pi
by Kat Padilla • • 2 Comments
So, I’ve been tinkering with my Raspberry Pi for the past couple of days. This weekend, I started with my time-lapse video generator using Raspberry Pi and its camera module. Taking snapshots is easy because RPi has a built-in raspistill command: raspistill -hf -vf -x -o melody.jpg There are many options which you can find here. When I connected the camera…
Code, Toys & Games
Setting Up Raspbian on Raspberry Pi
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
The very first thing that I did was to download an OS that my Raspberry Pi will use. There are many options like NOOBS and Ubuntu Mate but everyone’s sold with Raspbian so I chose it as well. Setting Up Raspbian on Raspberry Pi After I’m done downloading the OS here, using was not as easy as transferring it…
Toys & Games
Indoor Adventures of My Parrot Rolling Spider MiniDrone
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
The inevitable has happened. I bought a drone. Nope. Not the AR.Drone 2.0. Parrot wi-fi quadricopter in Pismo priced at around 27,000 php that I’ve been drooling over with. I think my twitter followers (wow! As if I have 1M followers!) know that I’ve been dreaming about it ever since it got released in the US but…
Toys & Games
Why I Like The Team Fortress 2 Engineer
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
The Engineer is probably the most boring class in Team Fortress 2. Call me a noob, I don’t care. I just love being a TF2 Engineer. Fun Fact: My youngest brother is probably better than I am in using any of the classes in this game! I don’t know why I like this class. My…
Code, Toys & Games
DxS: The Coffee Slayer
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
A clone of the game Heavy Bird created using the Phaser framework which is a clone of the widely-popular game Flappy Bird. It’s basically cloneception! Anyway, the main difference is that it doesn’t score up when you get pass a tower. It scores++ when you collect Starbucks drinks. I also made it shake and throw random blocks when you…
Toys & Games
Jazzpunk — The Weirdest Game I’ve Played
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
I recently bought this game called Jazzpunk when it went 20% off on Steam. I was powerless with my credit card that time because of the plethora of Steam ads and tweets promoting it. Obviously, their marketing worked on me. I bought it. Or maybe, I just like weird. So, there. The game description says: Jazzpunk is…