felipereigosa

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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   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 ga
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   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 someth
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   Thanks, yeah a couple of people have been saying how they are going to try this with their kids, depending on how that goes I can think about how to take it further in that direction.
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   Thanks, I'll remember that offer when I'm doing that.
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   It shoudn't be, I've include the lwjgl natives for macos, but I don't have a mac so I don't know. The jar works on ubuntu and windows, I did have an issue on windows initially due to the different path separators. If you
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   Interesting, I think I'll do that, I even already have the gif for the tetris machine, but I ended up not using it.
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   Thanks, I'll try my best to get there, for now though I'm just the one guy doing it so it might take a while. If my plans work and I make the project opensource though, then we're talkin'.
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   I mentioned somewhere else here the libraries I used, search for jbullet with your browser and you'll find it. The rest I built myself. Clojurescript is just for the website. I don't have a background in mechanics, so no, not real
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   by felipereigosa 6y ago

   Great! Be sure to share pictures of anything cool you build. I should have mentioned this before, I'm on Twitter and Instagram as MockMechanics too if anybody wants to share anything with me. I haven't posted anything there yet, b
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    > I feel like common mechanical subsystems like cams (which, for example, allow a rod to follow an arbitrary velocity curve when you move a knob), gears, and other devices may be abstracted away by a simple primitive This is exactly how
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    In time, why not? One of the main aims of this program is to exploit people's natural physical intuition, making it VR is a step in the right direction.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Well things are a little fuzzy right now. I was just telling someone who asked me this, the plan is to make it open source eventually (after I refactor the code so that people can actually understand it!), but I would like to make a little
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks! If you already have experience building things with cad you probably can build super cool things using this, I can't wait to see it.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks, it's a little hard to be sure, my first commit according to git is March 30th, 2018. On one hand, I did take months long breaks while I worked on other things since then, but I also have tried to build something like this once
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    You're probably right, it's just that I'm more of a programmer than a web designer (this is my first site) so I just built everything with Clojure/Clojurescript. But I'll definitely do that once I have some time.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    That's a good idea. When I recorded the piano I hadn't built the tetris machine yet so I didn't have the proximity-test library part. Now it would be so easy to test if there is a hole or not (or a bump) in a block working as
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks, we do :). From now on what the program can do depends on what people build, the library machines they create so that other people can use them as parts and so on.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    You know I had actually considered this exact thing you want a while back as a way to move forward once I had the program working. You could design all the graphs, logical connections on the computer then load them and just snap all the par
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks, if your son (or you!) builds anything with it I would love to see it and put it on the gallery on the website :) Thanks for the offer, I'm dealing with so many moving parts here (pun intended) I hadn't even considered it.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Not at all, this is exactly what I want, some good feedback, I hadn't even considered those things you mentioned, I'll look into it thanks!
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks, if I manage inspire some kids into coding just like I was, my work here is done :)
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks, once you are familiar with it you can start extending it right away, a couple of motherboards running custom short scripts could implement all those things you mentioned and then you could make that machine (for example the motor&#x
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    org.clojure/clojure obviously, org.clojars.nakkaya/vecmath, org.clojars.nakkaya/jbullet, batik and lwjgl. All the other stuff, the opengl shapes and whatnot I wrote myself over the years, mostly to learn how to do it. In fact
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thanks, one of the great things about creating a program where other people can create things is seeing them inventing things you wouldn't even think of, it's so open ended. Alan Turing and those other guys had no clue what we wou
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Well, I was really into formalizing stuff when I was in college, you know proving that a cryptographic algorithm was correct by formalizing them as black boxes talking to each other, that sort of thing. Then I just started thinking about ho
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Cool! If you guys build anything you can send me pics so I can put in the gallery of the website.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Haha... I remember talking to a teacher in college that used punch cards when he was young and I thought it was awesome, people were closer to the hardware you know? Hopefully my version of mechanical programming is a little more convenient
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    You're welcome :) I remember someone saying somewhere that most of the great computer programs probably haven't been written yet, if we remember that maybe we'll be the ones to write them!
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Thank you so much! I've been working hard for quite a while on this, you don't know how much it means to me that people liked it.
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    by felipereigosa 6y ago

    Yeah, as an introduction to programming, it could even be used with very, very young kids, apparently people are born with an intuitive physics module (babies are surprised by things that don't make physical sense), so who knows? Maybe