Software and hardware Integration

A clay-style character with short brown hair and glasses sits at a wooden desk, looking down at a small breadboard filled with wires and components. Two LEDs are lit on the board — one red and one yellow. The character looks slightly unsure or cautious, as if they’re not convinced the circuit will behave. Behind them, faint blue holographic code and diagrams float in the air, hinting at technology and problem-solving.

Building Universes from Code: Why Reality Pushes Back

Series: The Journey from Code to Hardware - Part 2 The Journey from Code to Hardware - Part 2 In the sanctuary of a development environment, algorithms behave like celestial equations - elegant, precise, and unbothered by the frictions of reality. But hardware has its own quiet personality. It is not a passive canvas for ideas; it reacts, resists, and reveals flaws the simulation never had to consider. And so, when code leaves the safety of abstraction, it encounters a landsc

Building Universes from Code

Rachel Barton

Dec 10, 20252 min read