Rarely has switching a light bulb on and off been this exciting:
That’s a gif posted in a blog entry titled “Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft”.
The author, “giannoug”, says he came up with the idea after stumbling upon a new modification called “OpenComputers”.
OpenComputers “adds computers to Minecraft”, giannoug says. And peripherals such as monitors and keyboards, and the ability to communicate with “the real-life internet”.
So with about an hour of spare time, giannoug joined a few dots. He had a couple of WiFi-enabled light bulbs on hand, which his friend had reverse-engineered so giannoug could already control them from his desktop.
After creating a new world in Minecraft’s Creative mode, giannoug built a PC monitor, disk drive and a switch, connecting it all with redstone, Minecraft’s equivalent of electricity.
Check it out:
Here are all the technical details if you want to get cracking on your own implementation.
If anyone else is thinking about ordering a flat white in Minecraft and can make it happen, let us be the first to know.
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