20 Jun
2015
20 Jun
'15
4:20 p.m.
And one more mine craft thingy, with a raspberry pi twist:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/withpiper/piper-a-minecraft-toolbox-fo…
They had these set up on pi day at the CHM and the kids involved really seemed to get into
the physical interfacing and puzzles.
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 20, 2015, at 12:34 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
?minecraft
physics? is already a derogatory term around the house. And, whether I encourage it or
not, he?s already into building complicated redstone sequencers. I?m hoping at least to
expand his horizons into real-world projects.
Good. He has picked up the ball, now let him run with it. Even in
unmodded Minecraft, you can do some amazing things with the redstone
logic coupled with command blocks (yes, Mr. Grumpy Man Thain, with
redstone you can have real gates and flipflops and race conditions and
such. Go explore Youtube about it.). I think there are mods for
non-RPi Minecraft that allows an interface to the real world, so when
the time comes, he can start breaking out.
I think Factorio is also getting some real logic systems, as well. It
is a better game, but not really geared for the younger crowd.
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Will
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Will