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William Siauw

Grades

1st semester is finally finished for my school, and I got all A’s this semester! In hindsight, I only had to take 2 classes this year to graduate—English and History, but I decided to take 7—the other 5 being the 2 computer science classes (AP and IB), Calculus, Physics, and […]

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Robotics

With the FRC season slowly creeping up, much of my attention over the past few months has been directed towards my robotics club. Whether it be tutoring my peers, or helping to build the robot, it has encompassed much of my day for the past two months. Additionally, my school’s […]

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Game Mod

For today, I decided to try to make a mod for one of my favorite games: Europa Universalis IV. Specifically, I wanted to try to make my own faction, while the game does, in fact, feature a faction creator it is heavily limited, with only preset colors, logos, and models. I […]

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Cave Crashers

Ever since my last post, I’ve been hard at work on my engine, coded in C++. Today, I felt I had reached a point where I could feasibly create a project, and that I did. I decided to create a simple game, where you click to shoot, and the character […]

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Projects!

I have recently been spending a good portion of my time learning C++.  To further test my abilities, I decided to attempt to create a full game in C++. Luckily, as I’m enrolled in the second year WANIC course of programming, I have been fortunate enough to receive some guidance […]

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3D Printing

3A year back, I purchased a small 3D-printer called a Monoprice MP Select Mini. After this, I’ve fallen in love with 3D printing. It has really given me a way to explore and create. One of my most recent projects is one of a life sized sword from one of […]

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Seattle VR / AR Hackathon 2018

Today I got back a 3 day Virtual & augmented reality oriented Hackathon. I was apart of a group of 7 and we decided to build an augmented reality game for the Magic Leap. Our game titled DARgon ThAR DestroyAR, in this game, heavily inspired by the internet character Trogdor […]

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Vice President of Robotics

With the school year already starting, it is now time for me to prepare for the upcoming FRC season. As the vice president, one of my specific duties is to lead the team in programming the robot. Yet, the FRC framework changes almost annually. As such, I have spent a […]

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Brief Hiatus

Tomorrow I will be leaving for a road trip in which I will be visiting a couple of the colleges I will be applying to. As such, there will be little new things from me. I should be back roughly August 22nd.

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Procedural Generation

Today, I decided to revisit an old engine I’ve used in the past, the Zero engine, in order to assess my memory of it. In my humble opinion as a computer programmer, it is only natural to know and understand multiple languages as well as to be able to learn […]

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