MakeCode Stream Ideas

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I had some ideas that I started trying to do but never finished so maybe richard can do it on stream because usually when he finishes something he has no plans. (no offence)

  • Working QR Code Generator.
  • Making a sequel to the image to sprite thingy and make it: Video to Animation!
  • Recreating “Getting over it” in MakeCode Arcade.
  • Making a MakeCode calculator that can calculate stuff like omega and aleph-null.
  • HTML in the JavaScript tab. (I don’t know if it would work but I was using the text-sprite extension along with one I made to try and use special functions you can type that look like HTML code.)

I gave up on most of these, but I’ve been trying to successfully do some of them even still.

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Just pinging @richard to make sure he sees your thread. I’m sure he’ll appreciate having a well of ideas from which he can draw. Great suggestions! These seem really fun, and they all require some technical research skills that can be good to demonstrate.

I love that you’re throwing in some topics in advanced mathematics, too! ℵ0 (I learned to call that aleph-nought; some also spell it alef in the West) and ω are super interesting numbers … although ℵ0 isn’t actually a number, at least not one with which you can calculate. I’d love to hear your thoughts on that… What kind of calculator would you like to see that uses it? Or maybe, what sort of calculations or equations would you use?

In this same space, I’d like to offer another idea for the stream: A recreation of Green Globs & Graphing Equations (http://www.greenglobs.net/). I feel like every kid who took an algebra course in the Apple ][ era played that game. Parsing equations from text is wickedly difficult, but I think there are some fun ways to build an interface that would work well in MakeCode.

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You mean it’s not a natural number.
I find adding the infinity’s to be kinda hard. And a lot to remember sometimes so I think making a calculator for stuff like that and all the rules in the related axioms.

Also the first thing that comes up when searching aleph-null/aleph-nought is a video by VSauce which explains it well for anyone reading this if you want to know what I’m talking about

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Ah! So, some calculators already know how to do “basic” calculations with “infinity.” I could imagine a more intelligent calculator doing something like this:

Expression: infinity + 7
Result: infinity

Expression: 1 / 0
Result (simple mode): infinity
Result (smart mode): aleph(0)

Expression: aleph(0) + aleph(0)
Result: aleph(0)

Expression: aleph(0) * aleph(0)
Result: aleph(1)

Expression: infinity * infinity
Result: aleph(1)

Expression: aleph(1) + aleph(0)
Result: aleph(1)

Interesting idea! It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with combinatorics, so I’m doing those expressions from memory. :smile: If any are incorrect, then please feel free to correct my mistakes.

P.S. VSauce is fantastic. Love their videos!

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Btw it has been done before: :grin:

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