He originally wanted it to be 8-bit, but had to scale it back to 4-bit. To fit in the space, n00basaurus had to rein in some of his ambitions. (Deep Thought’s name is a bit of a joke, too: it’s from the city-sized computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which calculated the answer to the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to be 42.) “It took quite a bit of 'deep thought' itself,” n00b-asaurus jokes. Its size brought some serious challenges. Also, components are expensive!”īut this doesn’t make creating a computer like Deep Thought easy. You don't have to deal with induction causing noise, plus you can see everything happening inside the computer as it's happening. “There's no power and ground traces to route. Arduino is a system of connected components you can use to build and prototype electronics, and it led him to learning more about electronics in college.īut n00b-asaurus finds it a lot easier to work with redstone than it is to work with electronics. “At 13, I got an Arduino, and when it came time to go to college, I signed up for the first electronics class I saw, no hesitations,” he tells me.
N00b-asaurus has had an interest in electronics since he was about 10, when his parents got him a Radio Shack electronics kit. Together, these can perform just about any calculation you need, and what’s more, Deep Thought has ports into which you can plug other hardware you might build, such as a screen. Seriously, this is small, but it can execute four different operations: AND, XOR, OR, and ADD+C. Built by n00b-asaurus, it fits into an area of just 40 by 40 blocks across and 35 blocks high. A new computer called Deep Thought is tiny by Minecraft standards. Very, very slowly.Īs well as building massive and complex computers, there’s also the challenge of making small ones. They were huge, comprising thousands of blocks, using both redstone and command blocks, and today, Minecrafters are still pushing the boundaries, like SethBling’s new Atari 2600 emulator, which can run and display games like Donkey Kong. Laurens Weyn’s Redgame computers came with memory and a GPU and could run programs and even play simple games. Since then, many, many more Minecraft computers have been built.
The reveal as theinternetftw comes out of the cave and looks out across his computer as it spreads out into the distance still puts shivers down my spine.
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