Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
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https://learn.adafruit.com/search?q=minecraft
—Adafruit have a really nice col-
lection of tutorials with instructions written by their staff and other people in
the community. They have a relatively new area for Minecraft projects that link
to electronics, and it looks like they are adding more to this.
html
—his is the first project that Martin and David worked on together, and we
hadn't even met in person at this point! It's a “mashup” (a collection of programs
mashed together). We took data from Ryan Walmsley's Rastrack website (
www.
rastrack.co.uk
) and the Ordnance Survey open maps data, and created the whole of
the UK full of Raspberry Pi in the sky! See the video on the website to learn more.
Here's another way to control real hardware from Minecraft, using Bukkit with
redstone. A Bukkit plugin communicates with the Raspberry Pi, making levers
and signs inside Minecraft control and monitor real world electronics.
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www.instructables.com/howto/minecraft
—he instructables website has a
huge collection of really well-written step-by-step instructions on how to build
projects, and they now have a Minecraft project area, too.
Videos
Minecraft like many modern games is very visual, and one of the best ways to get ideas
and inspiration is to watch what others are doing. Many of these videos are from blog-
gers and hobbyists that have become famous through their videos alone, and many of
them post videos weekly or even daily.
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http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Elevators
—In the bonus adventure
on the website you can program a fully functional Minecraft lift. There are many
different ways that you can build a lift in Minecraft and they are all well docu-
mented on this Wiki, along with some great videos of the lifts working.
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www.youtube.com/user/sethbling
—Seth Bling has a huge and very active
YouTube channel with lots of Minecraft projects and ideas. Be sure to check out
his TNT Olympics!
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www.youtube.com/user/stampylonghead
—Stampy releases at least one new
Minecraft video per day on his YouTube channel and has a lot of fun building
awesome structures.
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www.youtube.com/user/scarabcoder
—Nicholas Harris has a good YouTube
channel with lots of interesting projects. He has also written an e-book, available
on Amazon, about how to write Minecraft programs.
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www.youtube.com/user/SimplySarc
—Take a look at SimplySarc, especially his
well described Vanilla Camera (
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMHCabq_rs
) that
uses command blocks to make a camera that takes a photo with no mods at all!
