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Aug 11, 2022 1 hr 4 min

424: Between Midnight and 6am

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Gustavo Pezzi spoke with us about using fun and simple systems to explain low-level concepts and how they work in higher-level engineering tasks. For example, teaching microprocessor concepts using Atari 2600 assembly and physics by creating a simple game engine. Gustavo's site is Pikuma.com. He has a free taster course on bit-shifting. We also talked about Atari 2600 Programming with 6502 Assembly and Physics Game Engine Programming. Stella, a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator For examples of optimizing in different ways, check out this bit hacks page. Gustavo is mentoring for Classpert's Building a Language course. (This is where Elecia teaches Making Embedded Systems.) The conjecture about a shortage of electrical engineers was from The Register. Transcript

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