Friday, March 27, 2020

Teaching during Covid

 Found a website through a friend that let people volunteer to sign up and teach courses, so I signed up to teach a few classes.


Video game development (intro and hands on)

Hacking 101

Electronics Hacking (modifying existing electronics)


Unfortunately I can't share these videos as they contain kids faces/voices and don't want to violate their privacy, so here is an intro video I made to show off how good the engine can look.


In this demo, there's a powerpoint which is getting its data live from a google spreadsheet, then when the spreadsheet is done, the screen dissolves showing the "powerpoint" was in the unreal engine the whole time.




Hacking a 3ds to add parental controls

  The 3ds is an amazing piece of hardware. Especially if you hack it to add homebrew/emulators. My son has been enjoying a bit of "free...