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The folks over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation often gets asked "does it run Minecraft?" Mojang, the team behind the block building game, has announced that they will be releasing Minecraft: Pi Edition. This port will be based off the Pocket Edition of the game, but with a revised set of features. So what does this have to do with hacking? Mojang has announced that the Pi Edition will have … [Read more...]
Wanting to test his skills by building a webserver [Cnlohr] decided to also code a Minecraft server which allows him to toggle pins from inside the game. The rows of switches seen above give him direct access to the direction register and I/O pins of one port of the ATmega328. The server hardware is shown in the image above. It's hard to tell just from that image, but it's actually a glass … [Read more...]
We'll admit that we haven't been following Minecraft like we used to; its been a while since we've seen something amazing in Minecraft, but [eloraam]'s 6502 emulator (part of her RedPower Minecraft mod) takes the cake. The RedPower mod adds a lot of industrial technology to Minecraft. Pumps, solar panels, and pneumatic tubes to move blocks around are the staple of this mod, but with the … [Read more...]
[notch], the mastermind behind Minecraft, is working on a new game. It's called 0x10c (pronounced 'trillek', we think) and promises to teach an entire new generation the joys of assembly programming on a 1980s-era computer. The setup for the game is nerdy/awesome enough to make [Douglas Adams] blush; a 'deep sleep core' was invented in 1988 that attached to the 16-bit computers of the day. … [Read more...]
If you’re a big Minecraft fan, the folks at [radikaldesign] have something that might be of interest to you. (Translation) Inspired by some of their Minecraft-loving friends, they have developed Minestation - a weather station for your Minecraft game. The concept is simple. Here in the real world we have the ability to look out the window and see what it is like outside, but many of us turn … [Read more...]
If you've ever wanted to build an awesome tabletop game or model train layout scenery, you probably couldn't do better than printing Minecraft worlds on a RepRap. This guide comes courtesy of [Nudel] who figured out how to use Mineways with his RepRap. While [Nudel]'s landscape print doesn't have the full color of something from Shapeways, he only spent $3 in materials. Not bad if you'd like … [Read more...]
At Hack A Day, we're pretty big Minecraft fans so you can imagine our interest when we saw [Ben Purdy]'s real-life Minecraft block. The build uses a projector system to display a block onto a cardboard box and reacts to being 'mined' just like in the game. Block animation is handled by a piezo sensor, an Arduino and a Processing sketch. From earlier posts on [Ben's] blog, we're going to guess … [Read more...]
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