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 to print out your server’s world.
We have to give a shout out to [erich666] for his amazing work on Mineways. He bills his work as a bridge between Minecraft and a 3D printer or Blender. You can check out [erich]’s demo of Mineways after the break.
Of course the state of printing voxels wouldn’t be where it is today without the work of two guys at the MIT Media Lab and their work on Minecraft.Print(). If you manage to print out your base/castle/village, add it to the Mineways Flickr group.
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Thats really nice!
No need for 3d printer, using a ton of LEGO bricks instead to build a complete Minecraft world
Next up, functional minecraft prints. So like, printing out an 8bit computer made in minecraft.
we had something like this, i think it was called LEGO…
i will buy one when pistons & redstone is printable :D
….but if you could print Dragonreach from Skyrim? wouldnt that be EVEN MORE awesome?
Actually, pistons and redstone could be done with some electromagnets.
Now that would be really cool!
And redstone functionality is simple digital electronics with normal boolean math, so you could easily get the functionality as well.
Thanks for the links and interest guys!
People have been using RepRaps to make PCBs for a while, both by milling and plotting/etching http://reprap.org/wiki/Plotting But, if we strap on a pen like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNByi-rrO4 we could pretty easily print redstone circuits! (At least the wiring that is).
Also, I have actually been looking into exporting Skyrim meshes to print them.
Awesome work. Cheers for this.