Keyboard update

So over the last couple weeks I've been updating it. I got the middle layers inserted and I made my own mini usb cable. I also switched to cherry profile keycaps, these still contour but are thinner overall making the profile of the keyboard much nicer.

This is the first completed keyboard off of Dane's (President of our club) laser cutter. I couldn't be more happy with how it turned out. The next thing to decide is what will my next keyboard be... I am thinking something with magnets though!

NEW KEYBOARD!

The hype is real! I spent a good 6 hours on this keyboard. Started Thursday night and worked into the early Friday morning.

Using QMK firmware builder  I've been tweaking my layout and figuring out how to spread the missing keys throughout the function layers. This is my second keyboard ever made and I've already fallen deeply in love with this one (don't tell Morgan :P). It is not fully completed yet as I need to put the other layers on as well as add some led strips to the underside of it. Can't wait to finish it!

If you want to learn how to do this please shoot me an email at spimentel3@mail.csuchico.edu

Still trying to learn how to program with it though, it's such a fun challenge and I sincerely think everyone should make their own keyboard.

Halon Hub

I have spent so many hours working with this new stack. Angular 2 Meteor has been such an undertaking for me. Learning typescript, angular2, mongodb, and other technologies just to display links for my manager. I have been working on this project since December and I am finally coming to a presentable point.

A massive portion of the headache and development has taken place here.

This html is the angular2 and masonry to get the content displayed.

This is my group-list.component.ts. This is the meat of what I've spent countless hours on. Learning how to create this component to: use _id to reference the document in the mongo collection; subscribe to the url parameters appropriately; add and remove links within the group properly; and even more.

This project allows my manager to log into the admin account and add and remove links "cards" as he needs. I have poured my heart into learning this stack and I'm very proud of how much I've learned and accomplished.

If you'd like to download this and play with it for yourself feel free to give it a shot here Github page

Up next will be a project for Morgan which will utilize all the skills I have developed throughout this project. I will continue to pursue challenges, web or not, to climb higher!

Mechanical Keyboard Calculator / Website

This will be a quick post today as I have a lot of homework to do. I met with Dane today (he is the president of our club) and we have been talking about some web tools that would be nice to have. In about 30 minutes I threw up a github.io page (our site) and used  Materialize to get things styled and looking good in case people needed to calculate what they owe when ordering a case. I know it's not the best looking website but in an hour that is what I whipped up. We will be expanding on it to add more calculators and I'll be trying to implement a markdown view so Dane can just go in and post updates about the club easily.

Next post I hope to talk about the angular 2 meteor stack. I've learned a lot messing with apache virtual hosts and reverse proxying to set up the server it's been nutty!

Till next time.

It's been a while

Man oh man has it been a while since I have been on this blog. After getting hired as an intern at Hewlett Packard Enterprise I stopped posting; however, this does not mean I haven't been doing projects! I have something like  ~15 repos of personal projects on github that range from web-tools to side projects that ran parallel to my classes. I am definitely looking forward to posting again and keeping record of my projects in "blog fashion."

Right now I am working on learning the angular2-meteor stack which is soooooo powerful (Angular2 Meteor). After my friend Shane wrote his chapter's website/social media site (Shane's Website) in it I thought I'd give it a go. After starting to learn the stack in December I am finally gaining momentum within the stack and I have to say I'm a strong believer of angular2 meteor. In my Advanced Web Development class we are learning django and react and I definitely prefer angular2 meteor.

Pretty soon here I'll have some screenshots and some demo's of my project and hopefully it will go live within the internal hp network =D

I heard a quote the other day that I've come to really love. To paraphrase it, it went: You can try your hardest every day, so long as you remember that your hardest each day will look different.