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Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by felipereigosa »

whiskey14 wrote: post #90

Dude this is great! I think this would be superb for teaching children physics, coding and design. Also, it could have minecraft type vibes of addictivity and fun

Thank you. Yes one of the directions I want to take this is to create an avatar you can move around just like minecraft and then interact with your machines like I show in the first video. I always thought educational gamefication is something that could be done better. When I was a kid I knew every pokemon, their evolutions, their powers and I wasn't even trying, I just wanted to play pokered. If I create something that makes people, especially kids, care that much about programming... To storm that castle you have to build a catapult and to do that you have to understand these programming ideas...

Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by arendtio »

Just from watching the video it looks great :-)

What I like especially is the idea of teaching the keyboard shortcuts while using the software. In addition, the avatar mode sounds like it could be really fun.

Any chance of increasing the size of the world and making it like a first person gaming experience?

Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by felipereigosa »

arendtio wrote: post #92

Just from watching the video it looks great :-) What I like especially is the idea of teaching the keyboard shortcuts while using the software. In addition, the avatar mode sounds like it could be really fun. Any chance of increasing the size of the world and making it like a first person gaming experience?

Thanks.

> Any chance of increasing the size of the world and making it like a first person gaming experience?

That's the plan, except it will be the most open ended game ever, what you do inside is up to you... want a epic battle game? Build medieval siege engines yourself and fight other people. Want a city simulation? build the transportation system yourself, charge people to use it...

Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by VBprogrammer »

yetihehe wrote: post #78
magnusmundus wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Woodworking area may only exist in your mind if you're younger than 50 Why is that?

I believe that comment was to be written as "If you are younger than 50, woodworking area could be still in plans. If you are older, you definitaly already have woodworking area".

My tip for anyone in that position is to start buying stuff, I bought the biggest portable table saw (in retrospect, not the best approach) I could find and progressed from there. At the time I lived in a flat and worked on a balcony.

Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by felipereigosa »

punnerud wrote: post #96

The JAR-file can easily be decompiled: http://www.javadecompilers.com/data/30.10.20/77670d3f04408fb... Should support the developer on Patreon (see he mention it, but can't find a link). I think this a great work that deserve to be supported!

Maybe this is moot as I'm thinking I may release the code as opensource anyway, but I didn't think I was giving much away by not using proguard, since the code comes from clojure? There is no link to Patreon because I haven't created an account there yet, let me do that right now. And thank you! If I can get some support on something like Patreon, crowdsourcing, youtube ads or something like this I definitely will release the code.

Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by felipereigosa »

punnerud wrote: post #96

The JAR-file can easily be decompiled: http://www.javadecompilers.com/data/30.10.20/77670d3f04408fb... Should support the developer on Patreon (see he mention it, but can't find a link). I think this a great work that deserve to be supported!

Here you go: https://www.patreon.com/mockmechanics

I'm super thankful already for all the support I received with all the comments from you guys. But if you want to support me a little more, now you can.

Re: Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

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Post by denvercoder6 »

My employer creates Simscape Multibody[0], which does kind of similar stuff, but it's more targeted towards business/research needs. This looks like a more fun variant of it!

This looks very interesting to me, and I'm sure my fellow colleagues would love playing around with this.

[0] https://www.mathworks.com/products/simmechanics.html

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