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Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

82 points by thejj 12y ago

t0mbstone 12y ago
How do people find the time to make stuff like this??
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  Probably by being young and not having to waste it on bullshit things like earning money to buy food and shelter.
  - CocaKoala 12y 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 12y 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?
- yiransheng 12y 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.
_lce0 12y ago
brace yourself, minecraft posts are coming..
- LanceH 12y ago
  Someone will get a minecraft computer playing 2048 and that's all we'll be reading about for weeks.
- _lce0 12y ago
  why the hate? I love minecraft. It was kind of a joke comment..
draugadrotten 12y 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.
peeters 12y 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 12y 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 12y ago
  It's there to show scale. Like when people put a penny next to an object in a photograph.
  - iLoch 12y 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 12y 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 12y ago
      I was being facetious :)
szatkus 12y ago
Few hours ago there was 1KB model. Moore's law in Minecraft works really fast.
malux85 12y ago
I cant wait until we have minecraft running on a computer built inside minecraft ;)
- colinramsay 12y ago
  Hans Lemurson's "Minecraft in Minecraft": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnO1QZJ--M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnO1QZJ--M :D

82 points by thejj 12y ago

t0mbstone 12y ago

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

TeMPOraL 12y ago
Probably by being young and not having to waste it on bullshit things like earning money to buy food and shelter.
- CocaKoala 12y 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 12y 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?
yiransheng 12y 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.

_lce0 12y ago

brace yourself, minecraft posts are coming..

LanceH 12y ago
Someone will get a minecraft computer playing 2048 and that's all we'll be reading about for weeks.
_lce0 12y ago
why the hate? I love minecraft. It was kind of a joke comment..

draugadrotten 12y 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.

peeters 12y 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 12y 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 12y ago
It's there to show scale. Like when people put a penny next to an object in a photograph.
- iLoch 12y 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 12y 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 12y ago
    I was being facetious :)

szatkus 12y ago

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

malux85 12y ago

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

colinramsay 12y ago
Hans Lemurson's "Minecraft in Minecraft": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnO1QZJ--M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnO1QZJ--M :D