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I'm the one who made this. The GitHub link was posted on HN yesterday as well, but I'm happy to answer any questions here if people have any!

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I just want to say that this is incredibly impressive on so many levels. Your technical skills are obviously amazing but I really love how you were able to put this all together into an entertaining and well-produced video that anyone could understand. If you ever want to get paid 1/4 of what I'm sure you'll make as an engineer, you'd make a great teacher ;)

Thanks, was definitely hard to strike a balance between being understandable for non-nerds but also convey all the technical difficulties/achievements, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out .

That is amazing I understand how powerful of nerd skills it took to do all those steps. Maybe the most amazing one to me is that terraria mod to speed up their wiring code without changing any other behavior, and the combination of skills to do such nerdy stuff and also finish the project in a form that normies can appreciate and also making a popularization video of it. It's a very useful combo of skills and interests.

I guess I have a question, I know you did it yourself but it looks like you were in some community. Is it like a discord channel or was it some of your classmates or what?

It was pretty much just me by myself on this other than for the raycaster engine, which was done by a friend of mine near the end. I'm on a few Discord servers on Minecraft computing, but it's pretty vastly different and the biggest parallel is just with high level accelerator stuff.

> "ReLogic if you ever read this although I doubt it"

They should definitely pay you to add this. They can do it by just hiring you remote for a little while even if you are still a student and you add this wiring code. You speeded up their code so many orders of magnitude without even having access to it. Most people would have a hard time doing it even if they can see the source code.

Also I have a question, what do you think about RISC-V? I never cared about embedded code until recently when I saw that you can buy an ESP32 chip for like five dollars and it's as powerful as a computer from the 90s and it has bluetooth and wifi, I was like wtf. I saw the most recent version ESP32-S3 uses RISC-V, and the new Arduino R4 uses ESP32-S3. Also related to RISC-V I saw this Jim Keller youtube video where he is all-in on RISC-V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrGNlXRi9M

I think it has a lot of technical merit and I heavily appreciate the fact that it's open source which is why I used it here. That being said in terms of microcontrollers I don't think it's doing anything fundamentally that much better than ARM, most of it's competitive advantage just comes from the fact that it's open source.

Edit: just as a disclaimer I've never actually written any ARM assembly/silicon design so I'm probably not the most qualified to have an opinion on this

The post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36501742

I've been making software for thirty years, and this is the most impressive and insane thing I've ever seen anyone do.

I think you might do quite well.

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