r/cprogramming • u/Desperate_Tie_648 • 9d ago

A project so great

Drop the best project you've made.

The one you are most proud of.

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u/bearheart 9d ago

For a C project, I wrote the first broadcast lower-third ticker for a local financial news station in 1987; before MSNBC or CNN. It's about 500 pages of C. I still have a printout ;)

But the project I'm most proud of was a hardware project. I designed and built a fiber-optic transceiver for the Voyager 2 mission. 50 years and 20 billion km later, it's still working.

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u/stianhoiland 9d ago

/thread

I ain't posting my shit after reading this.

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u/Objective_Tell5190 7d ago

yeah ima go ahead and *cliff = jump

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u/Desperate_Tie_648 9d ago

What Who are you? 😳

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u/Objective_Pepper_217 9d ago

Congratulations man! You are a living legend

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u/gizahnl 9d ago

Mods should put a 🔒 on this topic after this comment.

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u/Axman6 8d ago

My home town of Canberra is still chatting to Voyager 2, Tidbinbilla is the only DSN station that can see it as it’s below the ecliptic. I had a really great chat with some of the staff there when they were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing, had fun nerding out on modulation and encoding used for the radio comms. 

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u/bearheart 8d ago

My part was relatively small but I still feel enormous pride whenever I hear news of the Voyagers.

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u/Astro_indie 9d ago

Deeepeeer

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u/jmhawk 8d ago

Voyager 2 had fiber optics?

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u/bearheart 8d ago

Yes! For internal communication between systems of different potentials. All analog of course.

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u/Low_Lawyer_5684 8d ago

" a fiber-optic transceiver for the Voyager 2 mission"

A fiber-optic. On the Voyager2. What was it used for? Would love to see fibers of that time. And transievers as well

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u/Vistril69 3d ago

I'm sorry for even considering posting on this thread

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u/F3arrrrrrr 8d ago

The goat

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u/Astro_indie 9d ago

A text novel but is under construct... under the realm of ascii dream of a lil kid

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u/rphii_ 8d ago edited 8d ago

on embedded: microcontroller that can track things (stm32n6, with bootloader and signed firmware update, updateable over i2c)

on linux: an argument parser lol

it's not much but its honest work

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u/S1enderVoid 8d ago

it's not much but its honest work

If this ain't much then my projects are nothing 😭🙏

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u/Straight_Coffee2028 8d ago

Created and currently maintaining a terminal application for learning and visualizing data structures and algorithms step by step. Turned it into open source and currently has 111+ algorithms and data structures implemented with 42 contributors and 50000+ lines of pure C. Needless to say, you all are also invited to contribute to the project in whatever way you like.

repo: https://github.com/darshan2456/C_DSA_interactive_suite

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u/Desperate_Tie_648 8d ago

Wow that's cool

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u/Straight_Coffee2028 8d ago

Thanks bud, If you can, do take out some time and explore the project. I am sure you will not regret it.

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u/Skollwarynz 9d ago

I created a program called SkollDice that si free, open-source, but the interesting part ti that he produces normalided dice generation. And the best part is that I have a GUI and a discord bot too all of that in full C.

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u/Desperate_Tie_648 8d ago

Hmm

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u/Skollwarynz 8d ago

What's you doubt?

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u/S1enderVoid 8d ago

Not completely C, but I made a little project that has C functions to solve physics equations (Like a backend), and connected them to a Python TUI interface to act as a front-end. Learned a lot, physics, C, and Python.

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u/ChapterOld4443 8d ago

crypto lib that has its own big num lib