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We’re also working on something like this, but we’re making a game around it

https://charperbonaroo.github.io/bls/#0

Oh wow this is awesome. I got through the first few levels and would like to complete it later...

Also, is this the same as the 2015 'bitmap logic simulator'? I found this while reworking reso awhile back: https://realhet.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/bitmap-logic-simula...

Yes, I also posted the progress there. The 8bit cpu example runs perfectly in my “game”.

I’m rewriting it to Unity and there I can run the 8 bit cpu from that blog with about 14000 ticks per second.

We’re planning to create a game around it with few dozen of levels, including controlling robots, traffic lights, a bowling pin sorter and tanks/units in a tiny top-down shooter (where programs from players play against each other).

Edit: if you download the cpu image from the blog and upload it to the game, you can see it run. It’s visually a bit broken because the game in its current state isn’t really designed to have such a big canvas, but it runs perfectly fine.

Edit 2: the CPU running in unity web build here: https://charperbonaroo.github.io/microengineer-build/

Oh wow yeah, this is really impressive. I love this! Do you plan to submit your game on Steam or anywhere like that?

An idea I had (but never finished) was to let Reso interface with GPIO pins (say, on a Raspberry Pi) so people could interface their virtual circuits with their real circuits. I think that'd be really cool (if that is possible with Unity)

Yes, I want to create an actual game on steam around it. We’re working on it on our spare time in our company, self-funded. Spare time is rare though, so I don’t know when it will be finished.

Interfacing with real hardware is a neat idea, I wonder what people would do with it

Very nice!

FWIW, I can't figure what to do on the "ride the line" level. I don't understand what the motors do exactly (powering both motors simultaneously makes the car go sideways) and what the sensors are sensing.

You just connect the left sensor to the right motor and the right sensor to the left motor. I think the "light sensors" are measuring the brightness of the ground underneath the car or something. Hence if one of the sensors goes over the black track it won't register.

That's incredible. It was just "very cool" for the first few levels - if you cleaned up the directions and added a factorio-style blueprint library I could easily see myself sitting down to work out optimal solutions to any level you put out, like I did with Codex of Alchemical Engineering - but the last level put it on a whole new level. This is everything that's good about HS electronics classes where you get to make line-following robots but without any of the real-world annoyances. Massively streamlined. Get enough content in this interface and I bet you could sell a lesson plan to every school district in the United States.

Very cool. One piece of feedback is that it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that "edit" was not selected. Since it's highlighted (in red), I tried to edit the circuit on the screen to no avail.

I’m surprised I haven’t heard this feedback earlier. You’re righht.

Looking good so far!

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