People are building working read/write hard drives inside of ‘Minecraft’
Yes you read that right, the term widely used when explaining Minecraft
“You can build anything and everything in Minecraft”
Has just became a whole new meaning, although people are still building the most crazy structures are of course the most dedicated and hardcore Minecraft players around — and they’re creating some of the most impressive stuff yet.
That continues this week with the construction of a hard drive inside of Minecraft that’s said to be capable of storing 1KB of data. While that figure may sound low, the fact that it exists inside of Minecraft or infact a digital environment makes it much more of an impressive creation. The 1KB drive gained attention earlier this week on Reddit, and according to Wired, it was built by Cody Littley, a PhD student at University of Texas at Austin.
Though this is far from the first Minecraft hard drive, it appears to be among the biggest made to date. Earlier examples were made several years ago, but they were working in only the tens of bytes. These complex creations are all made possible because of aMinecraft item called “redstone,” which actually allow you to create working circuits within the game — a basic implementation might be wiring a redstone circuit between a switch and a door, and then flipping the switch to open and close it. The hard drives use redstone to create a huge network of binary storage, which can then be written to and read from in game. It may not be all that useful in game, but it’s among the cooler projects you can put your time toward.
Via: TheVerge
