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Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, have officially released Minecraft: Pi Edition. This free version of the popular game is optimized to run on the Raspberry Pi hardware, and has an API that exposes the game's internals to a variety of programming languages. Mojang intends this release to be an educational tool for teaching and learning programming. Since the API provides instant feedback in … [Read more...]
One of the benefits of writing for Hackaday is the ability to command at will a legion of readers to descend on unsuspecting web servers. Most of the time a server can handle the load of thousands of connections. On the rare occasion, though, a server is turned into a pile of slag and dross to the satisfaction of us here at Hackaday and to the ire of admins everywhere. Checking to see if your … [Read more...]
Here's an interesting tool for making simple 3D games. It's called 3DPL, the 3D programming language, and it's a real-time interpreted language that allows you to create cubes and other primitives that respond to user input and internal logic. Not only that, but you can build 3D versions of breakout and asteroids very simply with only a few lines of code. 3DPL is based on Unity with a lot of … [Read more...]
Instead of booking an MC for your next karaoke party, take a look at [Paulo]'s build that turns any iPhone into a karaoke machine. There are thousands of YouTube videos out there of songs with lyrics - a much more advanced version of the mainstay of any karaoke get together, suitcase full of CDs and a video monitor. The only problem in turning these YouTube videos into a karaoke party is … [Read more...]
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