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Oooh! I am literally talking to game devs today for ways to visualise knowledge about

+ Lithium batteries

+ Battery management systems

+ Embedded coding

+ CAN-Bus communication

+ Inverters & DC DC converters

I made my own electric cars and am now sharing everything I learnt in a series of mini games & flashcard trainers. Duolingo for learning energy tech:

https://foxev.io/academy/

There are so many abstract concepts that could easily be taught with a string of 2-3 Minigames that don't have to be harder than the average balloon pop game or a portal2 puzzle.

A while ago I played a little game that taught you vim commands and let you traverse an RPG style landscape doing it.

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Was it https://vim-adventures.com ?

Yes!!

isvteaching people really that hard? the older i get and the more i see attempts at teaching i wonder why just teaching simply is hard

Putting content in the right order and hitting the right abstraction level.

Keeping the reader/user in the zone between being bored and overwhelmed while you teaching them, without knowing something about them (only data as feedback if they are using a tool that you built,rather than them raising eyebrows or nodding in a classroom).

I think it's hard but also fun. For the EV stuff that I look at there are a few problems compounding this:

+ Overwhelming buzzwords and complexity

+ Wrong intuition for HV systems

+ Unclear where to start

+ Capital requirements are high

+ Dangerous tech

What kind of tech stack did you use? I work on EV and EV-adjacent at $dayjob, I am very familiar with all of the concepts in your initial post.

Also, where did you get your battery(ies)?

Super interesting, message me on hello@foxev.io if you want.

Stack was leaf batteries, motor & inverter with our own gearbox modification (swapped direction), inverter with Openinverter.org Tesla model S A/C charger, Tesla DC/DC and then my own STM32 based control unit orchestrating all that.

Send me an email please, if you work in or with big auto I want to show you more of the app and get your opinion!

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