Reminds me of dockercraft, discussed recently at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584956
I have a raspberry pi controlled cat feeder I built and have been playing around with the last couple of weeks as a side project. I showed this to my wife and she said "Oh so can you make it so I can feed that cats while playing minecraft?" LOL
I'd like to hear more about the bulbs used. Cheap wifi bulbs with a simple protocol sound like fun.
Also check out "Minecraft: Pi edition" for the Raspberry Pi. It comes with embedded python support and is free: http://pi.minecraft.net/
Somewhat unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since 2012 and lacks a lot of features of the Pocket or PC version.
Now the next step is to build a replica of his house and this specific room down to the details so he can turn the lamp on in game which turns on the lamp in the real world.
This is what Code Hero, which I helped develop [1] tries to be. I hope this will have some success as well! With the right spark, there is a ton of creative fuel that can be channeled from excited kids into computer programming.
This seems like it'd be awesome for Minetest [1]. Minetest has a lot of (very) rough edges, but basically it's a Minecraft-like engine where most functionality beyond the very basic is added through mods written in Lua. I'd be fun to be able to live-code the mods on an in-game computer..
Finally, 'Hackers' the movie style 3D interfaces for managing networking infrastructure.
In all seriousness. As networking structures become more modular, it might not be a bad idea to have systems where the architecture can be modeled and monitored visually.
I have come across presentations of some custom/proprietary systems that provide interesting visualizations of networking interactions. It would be awesome to see a generalized platform implementation.
So cool. Reminded of Gibson's The Peripheral - even if there's nothing so existentially twisted in what the author actually did. I suppose the interesting part is just that the author is controlling a light IRL from the center of a russian-doll of emulated environments, but it sure feels profound given that one of those environments emulates an environment you can walk around in.
Now if this whole thing could be accomplished using pure redstone circuitry http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109385-Computer-Bu...
Open Computers is very powerful. I once knew a modded Mincecraft server admin who used Open Computers to receive and send text message updates about his base and the state of server when he was away from his computer.
Would be great if Microsoft extended the python API they set up for the Raspberry pi to other platforms. It's tons of fun to play with.
I'd like to play minecraft in minecraft. I would totally install minecraft on that minecraft also and play minecraft on it.
Now implement a video chat protocol in Minecraft. How trippy would it be to receive a video chat call from a Minecraft avatar?
Who else thinks that Minecraft will become the next iteration of nested simulated universe.
Now you just need to be able to SSH into the server running the game itself...
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> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft?
I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm wondering if others feel the same way. Does it make me less of a "hacker"? I enjoy programming, sometimes I wonder how things work, but oftentimes I don't mind that it is abstracted from me and "just works", and I rarely if ever have the urge to integrate two seemingly unrelated things to create a unique hack.