Good stuff, good luck with it.

I enjoy a good puzzle FPS too, but there's nothing like pulling out a rocket launcher or a flak cannon in UT2k4.

Yes, it can indeed; cf. the link rthprog gave.

I started drawing up ideas to arrange my room for maximum studio space and plan get started on it soon!

Also been getting raving reviews from work but am stopping myself from spending large amounts of money until I make it past my 90 probation period - end of the month! After that it'll be new studio, new computer then new cameras!

That's awesome! I hope you'll be drawing up some sketches or renders or models, as I did when I was designing my room.

Cool! the only Open-source 3D CAD program I knew of was BRL-CAD, and it kinda sucks in the gui department.

I did some simple calc programming, began various calc projects (calc to internet project, and a super famous one), and did some Python program writing (not exactly legit stuff, but feel free to email me if you want to play with it). Other than that, I've been bogged down with AP assignments, SAT studying, and a writing class for the summer.

@willrandship: Blender's GUI is horrifyingly ugly and hard to use. Although I got used to it, you may find it a bit tricky to use. Blender 2.5 is slated to fix that (in fact, if you downloaded an SVN build, you'll find the sharp contrast between Blender 2.4.x and 2.5 to be astonishing).

I lack the CAD abilities and software along with the ability to draw anything. But you can count on photos!

I lack the CAD abilities and software along with the ability to draw anything. But you can count on photos! [/quote] Oh come on, certainly you could sketch some dimensioned views on paper and scan them. I'm sure your artistic abilities are more than up to the task.

Well, when summer started I thought I would finally sit down and program a good game, given the fact I had nothing to do but simple house chores. That changed quickly when I got the chance to visit my hometown of Boston, MA. So I did, for a month. WAY longer then I anticipated. On the bright side, that was when I learned of the DCS7 contest. So I scraped up some cash and bought a TI-84+SE (tax was horrible!) and got to work. Came home and trashed the project because it wasn't win-worthy (another simple xlib rpg) and started anew with my current project. However, a few days later, I had to go to Clemson University to partake in 2 classes (Intercultural Communications, and Biology II H) so that it would look good on my record. That took up a week of my time, but it was not a waste, for it inspired me to start learning Japanese through Rosetta Stone. After that, there wasn't much time for anything before school, which I started today. Now it looks as if there isn't time to do much, I'm already loaded with Honors Geometry and Algebra II GT work.

This whole summer went by way too fast!

Tell me about the summer going too fast, I feel exactly the same way. I'm glad you got yourself a (new?) (another?) (a first?) calculator, but I'm unclear whether you do indeed have an awesome entry for the contest, or if you won't have enough time to finish in the three weeks left.

The TI-84+SE is my 2nd.
As for my entry, it is an awesome idea for the DCS libs, but I doubt I have enough time to finish.

Guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Aww, I hope that you do indeed have enough time. I can only assume that your first is probably a TI-83+ BE?

*bump* It occurred to me that at one point the majority of the people on Cemetech were in high school or younger, and I get the feeling that now there's quite a decent percentage of us that are college-age or older. Is that accurate?

Well, there are those of us who are long past that and who spent their summer the same way they spend their winter, spring and autumn: working.

Unfortunately, this is true. Of the active members, I know that several of us are in college, at least I am in grad school, and I think three or four (including yourself) have full-time jobs.

well, at any rate, it is back to being surrounded by r-tards in September

Maybe in real life, but my hope is that September will bring an influx of eager programmers and calculator enthusiasts to Cemetech, spurred by a love for calculators and technology, and seeking to write programs to run under and next to Doors CS.