Wendell to the Soul

Our capstone project continues to hum along thanks to my amazing team. We finished our first half of the project (building out i8080 emulator opcodes) ahead of schedule and only had debugging left to progress onto our second half (building out the virtual machine with graphics & sound). The checkpoint between these two main phases…

The Capstone project is humming along and our group made its way into the real meat of the project: translating 8080 opcodes from Hex to functional Rust code. Though it absolutely boggles the mind, the creators of Space Invaders on the Intel 8080 Processor made their game using only about 50 different opcodes. This is…

Now that my Capstone project is underway, I’m going to pivot the focus of this blog to the various learnings and struggles I find myself swimming in. This post will be focused on the group I’m a part of, as well as the project selection process we went through. I’m in a group with a…

As I look toward my final course in the OSU PostBacc CS program, I can’t help but take a moment to reflect on how much my life has changed since it began. I started this program in 2019 when I worked as a beer merchandiser in grocery stores, hoping that it would lead me somewhere…

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