In April 2024, I came across a cool animation made in Blender and thought, ‘Wow! That’s crazy. I want to learn how to do that too’. So, I started my journey At first, I was really confused because there were tons of buttons, shortcuts, tabs, and a cube in the middle. Pro tip: Use Blender Shortcuts cheatsheet as it helped me remember the keys. (Shortcut key: X to delete the default cube) ...
Introduction In March 2025, I signed up for the Coursera course From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer by Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan. I thought “Why not learn how computers work from the basics?” Spoiler:- It’s not as easy as it sounds. The course promised to turn me into a computer-building wizard, and I got pretty far completing four out of six projects. Logic Gates from NAND The course starts with a simple idea: using only the elementary NAND gate, you can construct all other logic gates necessary for a modern computer. This concept blew my mind, the idea that complex systems ultimately reduce to this simple building block. ...