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misprit7

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    No. The intention with the electromagnets wasn't really to prevent malicious cheating, just mostly to enforce cooldowns since it's very easy to forget/miss the different color of l…

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    Hey, I'm the one who made this! My video on it probably does a better job of explaining it than the github so I'd recommend checking that out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7VtS…

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    Comment #40593157

    It's not, It's doing snake shots.

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    Comment #40592070

    Thought about both of these, for various reasons they won't work. Trust me I spent a decent amount of time on this, I think objectively making the bottom transparent with thicker a…

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    Comment #40592053

    I was thinking about spending an hour or two hooking up a chatbot api and maybe even sending it live position/score data so it could customize it's trash talk, but in the end I jus…

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    (I'm the person who made it) Yeah that's fair, but at least for me I wanted to focus on the interesting part of "making a foosball robot" which is the "foosball" part, not the "fid…

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    Yeah, that's so the robot knows where the human is so it can accurately make shots. I didn't mention it in the video since it was more of an implementation detail and not too impor…

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    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 th…

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    Comment #36530016

    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 ho…

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    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 computi…

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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 would say the RISC-V immediate encodings were like that, on first look they seemed completely random but as soon as I started implementing the decoder I realized they were genius…

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    Comment #36514796

    I'm the one who made this. It's rv32i, and yes the 2017 specs. It passes every rv32i test in the repository you sent, see the test/ folder for the riscof plugin I wrote. I also hav…

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    Hey I'm the one who made this, if anyone is interested in the specifics I'm happy to go into details! Also as another comment indicates probably a better explanation of the project…

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