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So im out of ideas of stuff to do "electronics" wise.  I have built three + computers, a Freenas server, and played all the interesting games that are currently out.. Any suggestions guys? The only thing i could really think of is to learn coding. Any other ideas?

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Learning coding is pretty fun and it's useful too. If you want to mess around with electronics you could get an Arduino or Raspberry Pi and make some projects with that. The rocket club I'm in actually made a muon detector using a Raspberry Pi, a PMT, and scintillator fibers, but that might be a little expensive for you... it still serves as an example of how versatile things are though. 

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Learning coding is pretty fun and it's useful too. If you want to mess around with electronics you could get an Arduino or Raspberry Pi and make some projects with that.

 

Any suggestions on projects/where to learn/language?

Try making a game in Unity / Unreal?

How long would that take? I was under the impression it takes years to make games with unity.

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How long would that take? I was under the impression it takes years to make games with unity.

Unity's fairly simple, I'm working on a mobile title right now and I would say I'm about 30% done and I've been working on it for a few days. Unity has tons of great tuts on their website.

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Unity's fairly simple, I'm working on a mobile title right now and I would say I'm about 30% done and I've been working on it for a few days. Unity has tons of great tuts on their website.

I'll check it out! Just out of curiousity.. Do you mean "days" as in you  started a few weeks ago? Or Days as in physical days of time sitting there doing it? 

 

How hard is it to learn coding?  I've tried HTML and I gget freaking lost.  How hard would making a Unity or Unreal game be?  It would be interesting to me too

hahaha i feel like thatd be me learning code. But hey it may be worth a shot :P atleast with unity i'd be able to see something animated come out of it.. codes just a wall of text  :(

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For learning coding go to codecademy.com and do the python or java course. It's a really good website for getting started and you can do the tutorials at whatever pace you like.

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I'll check it out! Just out of curiousity.. Do you mean "days" as in you  started a few weeks ago? Or Days as in physical days of time sitting there doing it? 

I started 4 days ago and I'm making a game where you roll around a ball that progressively gets bigger the more of the village you destroy.

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For learning coding go to codecademy.com and do the python or java course. It's a really good website for getting started and you can do the tutorials at whatever pace you like.

 

Unity's fairly simple, I'm working on a mobile title right now and I would say I'm about 30% done and I've been working on it for a few days. Unity has tons of great tuts on their website.

I'll check Unity out tomorrow when I get back to my rig, atm I am on my potato of a laptop lol, and I'll look a little into the codeacademy, I have before and like I said, HTML aggravated the piss out of me to where I didn't even want to do it.  Since college is next year, and I have not yet figured out what specific thing I want to do, I could use it to help me when I start.  I love building computers even though I have only built one from the ground up, I wish I could do something with building them.  I like to take them apart and see what all is in them.  Any of you guys know what might suit those interests?

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I started 4 days ago and I'm making a game where you roll around a ball that progressively gets bigger the more of the village you destroy.

I love destroying innocent little villages.

I spent 40 hours on a game called Banished just to force the poor medieval village to die a slow painful death in the winter.

 

 

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I'll check Unity out tomorrow when I get back to my rig, atm I am on my potato of a laptop lol, and I'll look a little into the codeacademy, I have before and like I said, HTML aggravated the piss out of me to where I didn't even want to do it.  Since college is next year, and I have not yet figured out what specific thing I want to do, I could use it to help me when I start.  I love building computers even though I have only built one from the ground up, I wish I could do something with building them.  I like to take them apart and see what all is in them.  Any of you guys know what might suit those interests?

I'm going to college in two years and I'm going to be attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute which is pretty much a less expensive MIT with a higher acceptance rate. I'm going to go there for Electronic Engineering and Computer Sciences- my goal is to graduate from college with a masters in those two fields and go to work for Intel designing processors :)

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I'll check Unity out tomorrow when I get back to my rig, atm I am on my potato of a laptop lol, and I'll look a little into the codeacademy, I have before and like I said, HTML aggravated the piss out of me to where I didn't even want to do it.  Since college is next year, and I have not yet figured out what specific thing I want to do, I could use it to help me when I start.  I love building computers even though I have only built one from the ground up, I wish I could do something with building them.  I like to take them apart and see what all is in them.  Any of you guys know what might suit those interests?

This suonds like my boat lol. Senior in highschool and love HARDWARE.. and building computers.. but past that have no idea what to do. 

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I love destroying innocent little villages.

I spent 40 hours on a game called Banished just to force the poor medieval village to die a slow painful death in the winter.

Well this games gonna have the art style of Poly bridge (love low poly animation) and will be available for free on my website which will launch with the game and hopefully the google play store as well.

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Well this games gonna have the art style of Poly bridge (love low poly animation) and will be available for free on my website which will launch with the game and hopefully the google play store as well.

Banished is like a city simulator but it is based in the medival time and a lot more complicated.

 

 

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Banished is like a city simulator but it is based in the medival time and a lot more complicated.

Cool! This is just gonna be a free game with procedurally generated villages where you have 60 seconds to crush as much stuff as possible from fences to mountains while growing your boulder and trying to score as much as possible.

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I love destroying innocent little villages.

I spent 40 hours on a game called Banished just to force the poor medieval village to die a slow painful death in the winter.

I never had to do much; they would kill themselves out of stupidity.  On more than one occasion an entire farm would not get planted because someone had left a basket on the field the previous year.  And people would often starve to death just walking from their homes to their jobs

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I never had to do much; they would kill themselves out of stupidity.  On more than one occasion an entire farm would not get planted because someone had left a basket on the field the previous year.  And people would often starve to death just walking from their homes to their jobs

Haha I would watch my village like a hawk.

 

 

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I started 4 days ago and I'm making a game where you roll around a ball that progressively gets bigger the more of the village you destroy.

 

Beautiful Katamari Not so popular of a game but sounds exactly like this and was actually kind of fun they also did a mobile game back when iphone 3g i think was new so it was pretty crappy of a mobile version the xbox 360 version was quiet good 

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1. Buy old CRT monitors

2. Do this: 

 

 

 

3. Repeat until you have a tunnel/get evicted

 

Then once you're bored of the tunnel, take them all apart and combine the lenses into a super death ray

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1. Buy old CRT monitors

2. Do this: 

 

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3. Repeat until you have a tunnel/get evicted

 

This brings back an idea that I had...

 

Build an AIO PC in a CRT monitor body...

 

Take out the CRT and slap on a flat panel... rewire the buttons so that they work...

 

Should be a big enough project to occupy you for 2-3 weeks...

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This brings back an idea that I had...

 

Build an AIO PC in a CRT monitor body...

 

Take out the CRT and slap on a flat panel... rewire the buttons so that they work...

 

Should be a big enough project to occupy you for 2-3 weeks...

Wait, isn't that just this?

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