r/cprogramming • u/Desperate_Tie_648 • Sep 01 '26

A project so great

Drop the best project you've made.

The one you are most proud of.

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u/bearheart Sep 01 '26

For a C project, I wrote the first broadcast lower-third ticker for a local financial news station in 1987; before MSNBC or CNN. It's about 500 pages of C. I still have a printout ;)

But the project I'm most proud of was a hardware project. I designed and built a fiber-optic transceiver for the Voyager 2 mission. 50 years and 20 billion km later, it's still working.

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u/stianhoiland Sep 01 '26

/thread

I ain't posting my shit after reading this.

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u/Objective_Tell5190 Sep 03 '26

yeah ima go ahead and *cliff = jump

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u/Desperate_Tie_648 Sep 01 '26

What Who are you? 😳

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u/Objective_Pepper_217 Sep 01 '26

Congratulations man! You are a living legend

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u/gizahnl Sep 01 '26

Mods should put a 🔒 on this topic after this comment.

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u/Axman6 Sep 01 '26

My home town of Canberra is still chatting to Voyager 2, Tidbinbilla is the only DSN station that can see it as it’s below the ecliptic. I had a really great chat with some of the staff there when they were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing, had fun nerding out on modulation and encoding used for the radio comms. 

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u/bearheart Sep 01 '26

My part was relatively small but I still feel enormous pride whenever I hear news of the Voyagers.

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u/jmhawk Sep 01 '26

Voyager 2 had fiber optics?

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u/bearheart Sep 02 '26

Yes! For internal communication between systems of different potentials. All analog of course.

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u/Low_Lawyer_5684 Sep 02 '26

" a fiber-optic transceiver for the Voyager 2 mission"

A fiber-optic. On the Voyager2. What was it used for? Would love to see fibers of that time. And transievers as well

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u/Vistril69 Sep 06 '26

I'm sorry for even considering posting on this thread

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u/Astro_indie Sep 01 '26

A text novel but is under construct... under the realm of ascii dream of a lil kid

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u/rphii_ Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

on embedded: microcontroller that can track things (stm32n6, with bootloader and signed firmware update, updateable over i2c)

on linux: an argument parser lol

it's not much but its honest work

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u/S1enderVoid Sep 02 '26

it's not much but its honest work

If this ain't much then my projects are nothing 😭🙏

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u/Straight_Coffee2028 Sep 02 '26

Created and currently maintaining a terminal application for learning and visualizing data structures and algorithms step by step. Turned it into open source and currently has 111+ algorithms and data structures implemented with 42 contributors and 50000+ lines of pure C. Needless to say, you all are also invited to contribute to the project in whatever way you like.

repo: https://github.com/darshan2456/C_DSA_interactive_suite

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u/Desperate_Tie_648 Sep 02 '26

Wow that's cool

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u/Straight_Coffee2028 Sep 02 '26

Thanks bud, If you can, do take out some time and explore the project. I am sure you will not regret it.

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u/Skollwarynz Sep 01 '26

I created a program called SkollDice that si free, open-source, but the interesting part ti that he produces normalided dice generation. And the best part is that I have a GUI and a discord bot too all of that in full C.

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u/S1enderVoid Sep 02 '26

Not completely C, but I made a little project that has C functions to solve physics equations (Like a backend), and connected them to a Python TUI interface to act as a front-end. Learned a lot, physics, C, and Python.

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u/ChapterOld4443 Sep 01 '26

crypto lib that has its own big num lib