She watches him with fascination as he works, with technology far beyond anything she's seen other than in movies and videogames. And the entire time, she stays floating - because even if it's just an inch or so above the ground, flying is still cool.
"Mm! I can wait!!" But she's practically bouncing on the balls of her feet in the air, despite them not touching the ground. She wants to fly now. "That would be amazing!! Thank you!"
He chuckles softly when he glances up to see her bouncing on air.
"Would you like to help? I can teach you a few things about engineering ... there's going to be a chip system involved. Learning electrical programming could come in handy back at Insert Coin..."
He glances up and gives her a smile that's both knowing and expectant, in the way that Dork Dads seem to do so well.
"You can?" She lands back on her feet, still looking at him all curious wonder. "But... the technology here is so much more advanced than Insert Coin... is it really that similar?"
"The programming language is a little bit different, but the basic principles are the same. It'll be transferrable knowledge, trust me."
He motions her over to his worktable and opens a drawer, pulling out a blank circuit board. It's more advanced than what she'd be used to - made of different material, more spaces to add components, et cetera - but it's still recognizable. instead of a bin of transistors, tiny striped resistors, capacitors, and LED diodes, the only tool is a stylus linked to a machine loaded with spools of thin, brightly colored filaments.
"These filaments take the place of the parts you're used to seeing on a board." He points them out with the same level of excitement he must have had upon discovering the lab and going through it. "Each color has a different function coded into the fiber-optics. So we're going to use the same patterns and principles, we just have a lot more versatility. ... Remarkable, isn'it?"
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1/11/22 07:59 (UTC)"Mm! I can wait!!" But she's practically bouncing on the balls of her feet in the air, despite them not touching the ground. She wants to fly now. "That would be amazing!! Thank you!"
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11/11/22 15:32 (UTC)"Would you like to help? I can teach you a few things about engineering ... there's going to be a chip system involved. Learning electrical programming could come in handy back at Insert Coin..."
He glances up and gives her a smile that's both knowing and expectant, in the way that Dork Dads seem to do so well.
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13/11/22 07:23 (UTC)(no subject)
17/11/22 00:32 (UTC)He motions her over to his worktable and opens a drawer, pulling out a blank circuit board. It's more advanced than what she'd be used to - made of different material, more spaces to add components, et cetera - but it's still recognizable. instead of a bin of transistors, tiny striped resistors, capacitors, and LED diodes, the only tool is a stylus linked to a machine loaded with spools of thin, brightly colored filaments.
"These filaments take the place of the parts you're used to seeing on a board." He points them out with the same level of excitement he must have had upon discovering the lab and going through it. "Each color has a different function coded into the fiber-optics. So we're going to use the same patterns and principles, we just have a lot more versatility. ... Remarkable, isn'it?"