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+# BallBot
+
+Designed, developed, and maintained by Wyatt J. Miller
+Copyright 2024, all rights reserved
+
+## Hacking
+
+Requirements:
+
+- Rust (built on 1.82, 2021 edition)
+- git
+- pkg-config
+- openssl-devel
+
+If you are running `nix` or NixOS, you should probably run the provided `flake.nix`