03-27-2014, 05:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2014, 05:47 PM by greatgamer34.)
This is probably going to be pretty lengthy but here it goes!
My name is Alex, currently I am 17 years old. I live in very rural New York. I come from a poor family, and I am the first in my Immediate family to be going to college.
http://imgur.com/U79oWN4,zVOJ5DK
http://imgur.com/U79oWN4,zVOJ5DK#1
(I'm in the green)
When I first experienced Minecraft at my friends house, i immediately said "This is dumb! Every thing is pixelated". When he left to go to the bathroom, I began to play, and I couldn't stop. (I believe this is everybody's first experience)
I got into redstone from well, TBH, i have no idea. One day i decided to make a 7 seg display. ( Each segment was made up of 2 torches, at the time, i didn't know i could connect them, so i really had a 14 seg display) I had no idea what an encoder was so it was massive and slow!
My second invention before i learned binary was a RNG. I saw a design and immediately changed it to be able to work how needed it. I decoded every value (not in binary, so the Decoder was massive for 5 bits or something like that). Here's the link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxuVV9kq9gc
Basically If i wanted to make the number 3. Only 3 lights could be on, IN ANY PATTERN!
This is the start of my semi-successful and growing YouTube channel. Also in the near future i ws featured by WeSauce, a daughter channel of Vsauce for a crappy CPU I made! WeSauce-> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89cydmb3NOk)
After this i made a Base 10 adder, which was a huge set of And gates bussed to displays. Slow it was, but it was my first adder.
After that screw up, I decided to get into computers. I researched for days on end and was constantly on Newegg learning what parts matched with what. Eventually I began to build custom PC's for people. About 6 PC's in total now, with 2 more jobs lined up ATM.
I figured "Hey, if I'm going to build them IRL, I should know how they work". So I began following Benny's tutorials. I kept thinking "How the hell am i going to ever be that smart". Looking back,wow, just wow. I saw that He played on the RDF, so i looked around his plot and was further impressed. In one of Benny's videos, he mentions Guy1234567890. This is when I became acquainted with ORE.
Also somewhere in this time period I learned Binary.
On one of guys videos, he posted the link to this server. I HAD to check it out. At the time, I had no idea how to make an ALU. I was on school and learned on ICA on my own (at the time this was a huge achievement- now I cant stand pistons).
I then was confident enough to trial on ORE and I made an APP (here it is) http://forum.openredstone.org/showthread.php?tid=429
Wow i was nub.
Guy actually ended up "teaching" me how to build an ALU on my ICA that I made for My trial because the only line i was missing was the OR line. He thought I had potential.
So I joined ORE as a nub. Now I'm a smaller nub.
But wait there's more!
So because of Minecraft i decided i want to enter the field of computer engineering. Wow IKR a video game interested me so much. I applied to 4 schools and was accepted to 3. Because of my merit i received a $14,000 Scholarship and I decided I'm going to SUNYIT in Utica NY.
Recently I was reading Wiki and I figured out Bresenhams all on my own. Its a terrific feeling when you figure things out for yourself.
As a career, I want to work Directly for a company such as Intel, AMD, or nVidia designing chips for a living.
Congrats, you have made it all the way through this! (I'm sorry)
My name is Alex, currently I am 17 years old. I live in very rural New York. I come from a poor family, and I am the first in my Immediate family to be going to college.
http://imgur.com/U79oWN4,zVOJ5DK
http://imgur.com/U79oWN4,zVOJ5DK#1
(I'm in the green)
When I first experienced Minecraft at my friends house, i immediately said "This is dumb! Every thing is pixelated". When he left to go to the bathroom, I began to play, and I couldn't stop. (I believe this is everybody's first experience)
I got into redstone from well, TBH, i have no idea. One day i decided to make a 7 seg display. ( Each segment was made up of 2 torches, at the time, i didn't know i could connect them, so i really had a 14 seg display) I had no idea what an encoder was so it was massive and slow!
My second invention before i learned binary was a RNG. I saw a design and immediately changed it to be able to work how needed it. I decoded every value (not in binary, so the Decoder was massive for 5 bits or something like that). Here's the link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxuVV9kq9gc
Basically If i wanted to make the number 3. Only 3 lights could be on, IN ANY PATTERN!
This is the start of my semi-successful and growing YouTube channel. Also in the near future i ws featured by WeSauce, a daughter channel of Vsauce for a crappy CPU I made! WeSauce-> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89cydmb3NOk)
After this i made a Base 10 adder, which was a huge set of And gates bussed to displays. Slow it was, but it was my first adder.
After that screw up, I decided to get into computers. I researched for days on end and was constantly on Newegg learning what parts matched with what. Eventually I began to build custom PC's for people. About 6 PC's in total now, with 2 more jobs lined up ATM.
I figured "Hey, if I'm going to build them IRL, I should know how they work". So I began following Benny's tutorials. I kept thinking "How the hell am i going to ever be that smart". Looking back,wow, just wow. I saw that He played on the RDF, so i looked around his plot and was further impressed. In one of Benny's videos, he mentions Guy1234567890. This is when I became acquainted with ORE.
Also somewhere in this time period I learned Binary.
On one of guys videos, he posted the link to this server. I HAD to check it out. At the time, I had no idea how to make an ALU. I was on school and learned on ICA on my own (at the time this was a huge achievement- now I cant stand pistons).
I then was confident enough to trial on ORE and I made an APP (here it is) http://forum.openredstone.org/showthread.php?tid=429
Wow i was nub.
Guy actually ended up "teaching" me how to build an ALU on my ICA that I made for My trial because the only line i was missing was the OR line. He thought I had potential.
So I joined ORE as a nub. Now I'm a smaller nub.
But wait there's more!
So because of Minecraft i decided i want to enter the field of computer engineering. Wow IKR a video game interested me so much. I applied to 4 schools and was accepted to 3. Because of my merit i received a $14,000 Scholarship and I decided I'm going to SUNYIT in Utica NY.
Recently I was reading Wiki and I figured out Bresenhams all on my own. Its a terrific feeling when you figure things out for yourself.
As a career, I want to work Directly for a company such as Intel, AMD, or nVidia designing chips for a living.
Congrats, you have made it all the way through this! (I'm sorry)
