@Nanos honestly where I live I think it might be I've been looking for months

@Gregozor2121 I could but Im learning more about ai and machine learning so I figured might as well do a stupid project like that to learn more.

@Gerrymandered the idea is that we have a PCB that has an ftdi chip, an esp-12f and some eeprom. My friend found out how to directly write to the data bus on the calculator so then then we can do that and push that data to the esp to be formatted into a packet and broadcast along with an id from the eeprom chip(kinda like a mac address but a lot smaller).

When another module picks it up it rebroadcasts it but remembers the message(until it's power cycled or at the end of an array and removed) as to not broadcast it multiple times then sends it to that calculator to be used.

We're hoping this will let us do things like chat chat rooms and maybe multiplayer games eventually.

Hopefully some time I can also design a board that has two esps on it, one for the mesh networking, another for WiFi then connect to a raspberry pi running a server at my house and connect multiple networks over the internet.

@Root I'm already mostly self taught but my parents would react really bad if I didn't go to college so I probably will... I'm so excited to be paying loans for the rest of my life...

@Root I did trig/geometry last year and was the same way but the homework barely counted so I passed with around a 90%. I also had a great teacher though too we pretty much reverse engineering equations then used them for realistic examples.

This year I have to take algebra 2 but can't learn if I don't have real world examples and don't know why something works... which with my luck none of my algebra teachers have done. My favorite quote so far this year is "don't ask why it works it just does so do your packet"

Anyway I can't agree more school is stupid. So few of the classes teach me things I didn't already know or can't learn myself better but we have to do it to get the degrees we so desperately need to show we know stuff...

@Root I can take pre-calc for my senior year but I have no idea if I will. I really don't think my school has any good math teachers and I heard the one who teaches it isn't any better... Plus I'm already past pre-calc and on to calculus on my own so there's that too...

@Root ohhh that went right over my head I barely sleep anymore... 😂

And yeah calculus is ❤ if it's taught well. The internet is great for that though I've learned more about algebra and calculus in a week than I have in any classes so far

@Root oh umm... Oops?

@Condor I'm the type of person who sees life more pessimistic and how we're all going to die(at least for now) but until then I just try to make it the best I can and a lot of my projects are the result of that mindset.

I really do love every part of the process of my projects though. I mean sure debugging can suck but in the end it always feels so nice to be able to stand back and be able to say I made that and see people using something I made and what it brings to them.

@uyouthe right now I really have no idea. Maybe a wife not sure about kids or any of that though right now probably not. Of course I can't be sure about that at all right now but at least I have a long time to figure it all out.

@basavyr thanks man and I will!

@JohnScott yeah I know I'm honestly just turning 18 in a few months so I don't expect to any time soon but I mean hey I can hope

@JohnScott I can't say they aren't for me but I also have to say it's nice to have someone to trust and be able to talk to so it's kind of a win-lose situation for me

@ThaOneDude I was debating to use the tag or not and my friend said to go for it then after I decided to take it off the window to edit was already over so oops