Some 5 years ago, in middle school, I joined Omnimaga, curious about calculator programming, never having written code before.
Through this community, I learned about Axe, and started my first coding project. I finished a stupid shooting game, that I was incredibly proud of at the time.
I found Omni to be a fantastic community of fantastic people, and I wanted to stick around and start some new projects that I could share. Most of my games never ended up getting finished, but still, the experience of writing calculator games got me hooked in programming.

Thanks to that spark that I found here, when I entered high school, I decided to take computer science and join a robotics team. Although my interest in calculators faded as I became increasingly inactive around here, I continued coding robots and computers. Programming became my love during high school.

Now, I'm just a few days away from starting college, to pursue computer science at MIT.
I truly believe it was calculator programming and the Omnimaga community that enabled me to discover the passion that got me accepted to my dream school.
Sure enough, my college admissions essay started off with:

In 7th grade algebra, I was introduced to an incredible machine. With a whopping 27 kilobytes of RAM and a blazing fast 6 MHz processor powered by 1970s technology, the TI-83 Plus graphing calculator was a vessel of pure magic to me.

So with that in mind, I'd like to thank the all the wonderful individuals on this site who inspired me, the admin team for keeping this place up and running, and the Omnimaga community as a whole. And it looks like DJ Omni isn't here anymore, but if you see this, thanks for starting this place. It sparked an interest that changed my life for the better.

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while(pimath_is_on_computer)
    checkOmnimaga();


How I decide when to go on omni most of the time
public void onFacebookMessageReceive(Message m)
{
    if(m.sender.getNickname().equals("pimathbraniac"))
    {
        double num = Math.random();
        if(m.body.contains("omni"))
        {
            if(num < 0.8)
                checkOmnimaga();
        }
        else if(num < 0.2)
            checkOmnimaga();
    }
}


At school, I'm starting a club for android development. Our starter project is a programmable calculator app made in Android Studio.

As for games, I've used LibGDX (for java), which supports a bunch of platforms including android.
I made a game with LibGDX once which was a nice experience, but I haven't tried compiling it for android. Maybe I'll try that this weekend.

Made collisions a bit less terrible, and added a menu that can be accessed with esc.

And here's one of our matches, with us the red robot labelled 2067, scoring for the alliance.
Despite being 2 on 3 with one of our robots dead, we won the match.
This is at the world championships in St Louis.

Welcome to Peanuts!
Have some omnimaga:

I'm pretty sure the charging port on my nspire is shot; it looks rather damaged.
So I've been stuck with a dead battery.

Can I somehow use one of the other ports to charge? Or am I stuck with an unchargeable calculator?

Huzzah!
Let us commence.

Every rule shall contain at least one palindrome of more than 3 letters (can be multiple words), or else I will whack you in the side of the head with a kayak.

Hmm, that's quite a short lever arm on that shooter.  How is it powered?
That'll be one powerful machine with that drivetrain!

Also, does anybody wanna suggest some names for my robot?
One suggestion was "Crabapple" because our team name is Apple Pi and we're using swerve drive... but I don't like it

Here's a video of our robot at a scrimmage on Saturday.

The ball wasn't fully on the catapult, so it got stuck in the harvester a bit, which threw everything off. So the ball fired straight up, and our cocking mechanism failed and got stuck so we couldn't reset the catapult.