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Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

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82 points by thejj 11 years ago · 18 comments

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malux85 11 years ago

I cant wait until we have minecraft running on a computer built inside minecraft ;)

t0mbstone 11 years ago

How do people find the time to make stuff like this??

  • yiransheng 11 years ago

    As a matter of fact, with some external tools like MCEdit, it's not really as time consuming as it seems. A lot of large scale of Minecraft redstone contraptions are modular in nature, once you build and validate the basic idea, scaling up is just a matter of copy-pasting.

    In my experience, the initial research/designing phase takes quite some hours (typically a good weekend), scaling up is must faster. In addition, most players who are into this typically have a number of creative worlds serve as libraries of past builds, so you'd almost never start from scratch.

  • TeMPOraL 11 years ago

    Probably by being young and not having to waste it on bullshit things like earning money to buy food and shelter.

    • CocaKoala 11 years ago

      Or he spends a lot of time on a hobby after work just like plenty of other reasonable and self-supporting people do?

      • wlievens 11 years ago

        Or he spends a lot of time on a hobby after work just like plenty of other reasonable and self-supporting people [without kids] do?

szatkus 11 years ago

Few hours ago there was 1KB model. Moore's law in Minecraft works really fast.

_lce0 11 years ago

brace yourself, minecraft posts are coming..

  • LanceH 11 years ago

    Someone will get a minecraft computer playing 2048 and that's all we'll be reading about for weeks.

  • _lce0 11 years ago

    why the hate? I love minecraft. It was kind of a joke comment..

peeters 11 years ago

Was there a particular need to model the World Trade Center towers with a plane flying at them? Is that part of the functionality of the hard drive?

  • quchen 11 years ago

    I'm inclined to say "no", but I think most of us have deleted seemingly unnecessary appendices from code to spend a week fixing the aftermath.

  • Sonicmouse 11 years ago

    It's there to show scale. Like when people put a penny next to an object in a photograph.

    • iLoch 11 years ago

      That's like saying "Oh that cardboard cut out of Adolf Hitler? Yeah that's just for scale." Yes, indeed it is - but there's probably more to it than that. I'll go out on a limb and say due to the presence of My Little Pony that this person has a weird interpretation of what's considered appropriate.

      On topic: This hard drive is incredibly impressive, and it's fascinating to see how the density changes between a 1K HDD and a 4k HDD.

      • duskwuff 11 years ago

        > this person has a weird interpretation of what's considered appropriate.

        Assuming that it's a single person? The use of "our" in the description (as well as the fact that they've got an online map in the last picture!) suggests that this is on a shared server.

      • Sonicmouse 11 years ago

        I was being facetious :)

draugadrotten 11 years ago

What's your plan to monetize this? There may be a few million in venture capital for this. Contact me if you want to attend our bootcamp.

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