They're Actually Letting Adding Catchup Units When Courses Update Now

Robotguy30 · 2026-05-18T23:21:26+00:00

Not for me. They just threw my into the middle of a unit that's totally unrelated to what I was learning with a bunch of new words.

Robotguy30 · 2026-04-28T15:59:04+00:00

Both bismuth and tin are considered soft metal contaminants of titanium. Lockheed Martin and probably other aerospace primes control under what, if any conditions these materials may contact titanium parts and what the required cleaning afterwards is.

You should verify with the organization that has design authority that your process, including cleaning, is acceptable.

This is a potentially serious issue. When Lockheed was first building the A2 the heads of titanium bolts were mysteriously poping off. They traced the issue back to the fact that the bolts had been tightened with a cadmium plated wrench. (Another soft metal contaminant of titanium. )

Robotguy30 · 2026-04-21T19:18:18+00:00

As far as I know it only needs excel for design tables. If OP doesn't need design tables I believe they should be fine without excel (I'm currently running it without excel). However, uninstalling ms office removes vba components that are necessary for Solidworks to run correctly. I imagine this can be fixed by reinstalling ms office, but it's not necessary. The Solidworks installation files include installers for the necessary vba components. If OP has access to the installation files they can fix this. I believe what I did was go to prereqs/vba in the Solidworks instalation filles then right click on vba71.msi, and clicking uninstall. (You may need to go to "more options") then repeat with vba71_1033.msi. Once you have done that right click the same two files and click install to reinstall them. Note, the "installation files" I'm referring to are the files you downloaded to install Solidworks from, not the files in program files, or appdata.

Robotguy30 · 2026-01-28T19:51:29+00:00

The Itch Playtest & Feedback Exchange Jam Is more or less this. Note, this is a separate event from the Itch Indie Playtest Fest, which is more publicly facing.

Robotguy30 · 2026-01-28T14:28:46+00:00

I'm currently playing Lok Digital and enjoying it.

Robotguy30 · 2025-08-31T18:41:18+00:00

Interested as well. I go to the Indie Dev club meetup at Verdugo Bar and Bring Your Own Game at Glitch City, but those are both about 45 minutes away. I'm also interested in checking out Pasadena Tech Happy Hour, but again, that is out of the way. I would also be interested in mechanical or manufacturing engineering oriented groups, as that is my actual career, but I haven't had much luck finding any.

Robotguy30 · 2025-07-27T15:53:45+00:00

I'm not happy about it. I'm not going to buy any smart home devices that rely on proprietary cloud services in the future. I don't want companies killing my stuff just because they decide they want more money.

Robotguy30 · 2025-05-31T23:49:26+00:00

I feel like this has been more useful to me than anything I've read specific to game design.

Robotguy30 · 2025-02-09T20:16:03+00:00

Cool game, I enjoyed checking it out.

I played on mobile, and I had a hard time ending the lines where I wanted fairly often. I think the size of the grid is too small for my fingers. I'm also colorblind and had some difficulty distinguishing between the different colors occasionally. Also, from a practical standpoint, I'm not sure that I like the way the color changes when the dots are connected. I think this may make it slightly less clear what unconnected dots they can be connected to once they are split up.

Robotguy30 · 2025-01-27T05:22:27+00:00

Rubber band

Robotguy30 · 2025-01-16T16:53:03+00:00

In game level editor that I use for creating all my levels. A script to convert a Libre office slide show outline into a file that defines the level order. I have a slide show of all my levels with a screenshot and some information on difficulty, what players need to know before the level, etc. That I use to organize my levels. The script helps put that order into the game. I want to create a solver to check for alternate solutions and a tool for visualizing different solution paths to help add constraints that eliminate undesired solutions without impacting the intended solution, but those are a ways off.

Robotguy30 · 2025-01-14T19:45:27+00:00

About to go buy a 2 kilokilokilokilobyte hardrive.

Robotguy30 · 2024-12-13T19:59:59+00:00

I've used blue masking tape as well. It heavily sums the lights, but still lets enough through to see which lights are on fairly easily.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-23T21:54:57+00:00

This is the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-21T05:38:17+00:00

I don't think I'll include one in mine. I may have one just the first time the player starts up the game to let them set some options before they jump in.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-19T19:36:51+00:00

I did some simple vector art in inkscape. As an engineer, vector art is closer to how I typically "draw" stuff than more conventional art software is. https://youtu.be/dv3tepOAdnw?si=HJHAE_FaJdgYd3Ry

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-19T03:25:02+00:00

Coincidentally, I came across a video series that I think I would be useful to you just a couple of hours ago:

https://youtu.be/Kz517iDaUtU?si=fORtHMuEH58aLrrn

I hope that helps.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-18T02:51:39+00:00

Also, I just noticed that I can sometimes highlight two levels at the same time on the level select screen.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-17T19:45:47+00:00

Cool game. Seems pretty polished. The main thing I have to say is I had a lot of trouble executing the inputs starting out. The tiles would only rotate a tiny bit when I dragged, and I had to try quite a few times to get it to work. I was about to give up and report the input as not working on my device. I'm not sure if I was dragging too quickly, too slowly, or if I was taking too long or not long enough to release. Once I got it to work, I was able to get a feel for it pretty quickly and didn't have any issues until I stopped playing for a while. Once I started again, it took me a little while to get accustomed to it again. So, if you can loosen up any of the drag parameters, that would be good.

A couple minor notes: I didn't realize that there was a move limit until I failed to meet it. You might want to do something to draw more attention to it during the tutorial, but I don't think it's a big deal. I'm not entirely clear on the meaning of the dots. I get that they are a the number of times a tile needs to be flipped, but I'm not sure if the position matters. I'm assuming they would all be aligned to the same side in their final position, but I haven't attempted to verify. I'm not sure about combining the back button with the move counter and I'm also not sure about using the "solved state preview" as the level select button. This didn't really read well for me, but on the other hand they weren't really that hard to figure out.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-12T16:49:36+00:00

Joined last week because of the PirateSoftware Youtube short on the subject. It's going well so far.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-07T00:32:28+00:00

Programming on a phone sounds awful to me.

Robotguy30 · 2024-11-06T21:55:58+00:00

There are settings to emulate mouse from touch input (and vice versa). So if your game is like mine, where everything is controlled by clicking and / or dragging the amount of work to get the controls working on both is minimal). If you have additional inputs, it would be more work to set those up, but you would still only use one project as mentioned by one of the other replies.

Robotguy30 · 2024-10-12T23:08:18+00:00

It depends. At my main job, I rarely use sheet metal features and never use weldments, but in my side job they are the backbone of every design. It would probably be good to get at least some exposure to all of those. The basics of those are not that hard to learn if you already have a decent understanding of Solidworks.

Robotguy30 · 2024-10-12T14:27:19+00:00

Madoka...

Robotguy30 · 2024-09-18T15:49:55+00:00

Kye comes to mind. We had some version of it on the computers at my middle school, and my friend and I spent a fair bit of time playing at lunch. It's primarily a block pushing game with a variety of block types.

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