Designing a VGA Graphics Card
I built a functioning graphics card using TTL chips on several breadboards, then designed a custom PCB for it. Based off Ben Eater's video card.

2022 - 1st year of BSc, 2nd semester
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Yooo what's good! My name's Jacob Applebaum and welcome to my site!
Technically I've been "coding" since middle school, but it was really just HTML and Scratch (even though I'd consider the ladder more of a programming language). At that time I was more into making and editing videos.
In High School, I got into Python, Arduino-C, C#, Java, and JS on my own time. Then when I actually started taking Computer Science as a class I dove deeper into Java and Python, making games with a group of friends (artist, musician, and other programmer) over the summers, and I even made my own website.
I also got more into hardware in high school. Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, basic circuits, robotics, etc. in Computer Engineering class. But outside of class, I stumbled upon Ben Eater's videos, which finally made the connection between hardware and software 'click' in my head. And ever since, I've been really interested in the intersection between software and hardware.
Now, I spend my days at Brock University, studying Computer Science. I'm learning more than ever before about software (in class) and hardware (mostly outside of class, if I have time). I'm enjoying residence for second year too, just because it was so fun last year. It makes me sad that I'll probably never live in that kind of ecosystem again...
Welcome to videos! Here you'll find lots of videos I've made since 2016.
I mainly use Adobe Premiere and After Effects to create these now.
What's good? I'm Jacob Applebaum and I'm a 19-year-old Canadian University Student. But that's not all. I'm a real person... I think. A collection of memories emotions, interests, motives, desires, flesh, blood, and more. Never fully tangible, even if you were to meet me in person, and especially not online.
Here are some things I'm good at I guess: