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October Projects

Last Month's Projects:   Physical make: CnC router. This is a weird one.  I haven't been out to my workshop all month - it's full of 8-foot lengths of 2"x1" which I had picked up on Freecycle.  My intention was to make a frame to support some loganberry plants I have in the garden before the winter weather closed in.  The howling wind and hammering rain tell me I've kinda missed that boat.  But maybe there'll be a window of some clear weather in October when I can get that sorted. To be fair, teaching Septembers are pretty tough going and the COVID measures are making routines (which would normally make things much easier) very hard to figure out.  So my energy levels have been pretty low.   Coding make: Exploring DS Homebrew   This has actually made a great start!  Three of the students have decided to team up and make a project together!  So far we have only explored backgrounds and the beginnings of rendering sprites.  I want to make a simpler sprite