Fun projects

MyPreciousss3

Olijfje, Tijgertje en CoCo

People simply love
❤️ cats! Stats after less than 24 hours in Divoom® community:

  • More followers;
  • many likes;
  • very, very much views [>2.8K];
  • and funny responses.

Bikini Bottom

SpongeBob SquarePants

Back once again... the energetic sponge from Bikini Bottom SpongeBob SquarePants! Build in 33 frames for just 0,1 seconds of animation... but so much fun to do! :)

Back on track

Hyundai Getz animation

SUMMER 2022: On a road (+ boat) trip to København!

Happy Mac

Happy Mac animation

The ‘Happy Macintosh’; inspired by the ubiquitous round yellow smile face. Original design by Susan Kare, around 1984.

World’s #1 puzzle

Cube

1974:
Ernö Rubik—a professor from Budapest in Hungary—wanted to help his students understand 3D problems. His solution? The Rubik’s Cube! Ernö created the first working prototype in 1974. With 8 corner blocks and 12 edge blocks, 8!×12!×38×212 different positions are possible. However, it is not possible to achieve every situation by twists:

  • Turns of corner blocks can only be done with at least two blocks at the same time
  • Side blocks can only be rotated with at least two blocks at the same time
  • Movements can only be made with three blocks at a time

Due to these limitations, the above value must still be divided by 2×2×3=12. Result: 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 (more than 43 trillion) in different positions. Only one of them is the right solution!

1982: The Museum of Modern Art in NYC selects Rubik’s Cube for its permanent collection.

2017: Rubik’s Brand enjoys a record year with retail sales reaching $250 million.

2021: For the trainspotters: as a big fan of this legendary puzzle (I solved it!) with its iconic design I have added a favicon of it to this site.

Ping (Pong)

Pong game

Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, first released in 1972 by Atari. It is a two-player game based on table tennis [ping pong]. The game features simple 2D graphics. It consists of two paddles used to return a bouncing ball back and forth across the screen. The score is kept by the numbers at the top of the screen.

I recreated this game in Python. A tiny project to further develop my OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) skills.

Pong code

You’ll notice that there are several lines in this program that start with a # symbol. The words following the # are a comment, added to make the code easier for users to read and understand.

For the type geeks: Typeface used for writing the code is Operator; a very fit workhorse specifically engineered for the screen by Hoefler&Co.

Warming-up

Down Under Obstacle Run

Global warming? Not exactly one year ago when I joined the Down Under Obstacle Run [7.5 mi] in Nieuwegein (NL)! It was a double challenge: fighting numerous, slippery obstacles + poor weather conditions. With a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius it appeared to be the coldest 6th of October since 1936! A hot shower after some heavy exercise never felt so good before!