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  • Arduino projects as an intro to Embedded Systems programming

    Embedded Systems can be hard to wrap your head around if you’ve never worked with them before. Debugging is difficult without using trial and error, because there often is no debugger built in on the system you’re working with. But, embedded software is everywhere around us! If you’ve ever used an elevator or an automated…

  • Best Privacy-Conscious Browsers for 2023

    In the modern age, we all should be concerned about our privacy. When you spend so much time on the internet, what is the safest way to go about browsing? These are my top-safest browsers for 2023! Freenet Freenet is the best choice if you’re worried about censorship, since they use a “decentralized network and…

  • ASCII Art in Code

    In preparation for my next project, a text-based game, I’ve decided to look into the most popular text-based games in history to see what makes them work. Also known as interactive fiction, or IF for short, text-based games originated due to hardware limitations. Early computers had limited graphics capabilities, and many were just a terminal…

  • Hello World!

    Hi there! My name is Hayley Spencer Leavitt, and I am a Computer Science student at Oregon State University. I’ll be graduating in March 2023, so I’m in the Capstone class right now 🙂