i agreee!!! lets set up an operating system, you can do programm counting, i can do the ALU calculating part, i know a guy who can do an GPU and then we just need a soundcard!!
@sweeness13 I'm not trying to be rude, but this knowledge is not too hard to learn. You could read from a textbook and understand how to make computers. Th reason why it is so amazing is because it is a computer literally within a computer.
@ixcaliber The learning process itself is rather easy, I agree, but it's about a way to make learning engaging and I think Minecraft is a great platform for this. In fact, this could even be used in schools and it enables the people who want to learn this to not only look at diagrams of such a contraption, but to interact with it, examine it and build it themselves.
Minecraft used in this way is a massive, massive educational tool. I knew little about logic gates/circuits and now I'm passing a lot of my physics tests at school, It's amazing.
I would love to get this thing rolling with you and probably a good amount more peple, but I'm only 12 and am limited to my age restraints and knowledge of redstone which is high but not high enoughi believe.
I agree. Minecraft could totally be used to show how these types of things work, and I would help you do this in a second, but I'm just some dumb bastard who doesn't understand how these things work. At all. Actually, I was hoping to learn from you, and I did download your save file for the ALU and CPU, and am planning to study them.
I'd be interested to know what sort of a response you've had. Have many people with similar knowledge levels come forward with support? What sorts of things have you thought about since this video? Thanks!
I need help from someone that is pretty good at redstone. I need to make something that alows me to have 1 input and 24 outputs. I want the output to change when i press a button.
so when it gets a input it changes to nr. 2 After the next input nr.2 is on and 1 is off and so on.
I'm pretty sure i need to use ts/t flip-flops, i tried to connect them in a row, it didin't work out 2 well :P heh
Please just send me a message if you know how to do this.
I love the idea. I am someone looking to make my career in Computer science and something like this would definetly help me understand a PC and its components.
It is true that a PC in its entirety is hard to understand all at once, and Virtual computer designing as you siad can show what each bit does in contribution to the whole. Its basic learning. its visual learning which is very effective. Its how one learns to even understand math as a child.
I agree totally. You are a complete genious. And I have made many awesome things with redstone, but I guess this is all outdated now since im 4 months late. Let me know :)
it would be good besause i always wonted to know how all the meny circits in a computer work together to take inputs and prosece them in to what you see on the computer
It would be cooler if everyone was assigned to develop a different part of a minecraft computer and then after that all the many parts were connected and we had like an actual computer in Minecraft. After that is accomplished, I swear that would be another huge step in humanity. Even though you're computers are already.
i think that this is a wonderful idea , but surely it only takes the three idiots who pressed dislike to spoil it for everyone? However, if that could be overridden then i am sure that there are hundreds maybe thousands of people like me that would be awed by walking around the museum that you have envisaged.
I absolutely love this idea. Your videos have given me a complete fascination with binary logic and electronics as a whole. I hope to start learning more about what you do for fun. The level at witch you play is just a little to complex for a layman like me. I would love to see these circuits broken down into simple ideas and see how they relate to each other.
This is a fantastic idea. Even after powering through textbooks on CPU's I still find it hard to grasp the complexities of how they work. I find the idea of being taken on a guided tour through one very appealing.
This idea could then be taken further, why not create a gigantic Minecraft version of the human body, so we can see and walk through various biological functions. Or perhaps a model of how chemicals act at the subatomic level, or even a giant combustion engine. Endless possibilities.
You are an admirable man, theinternetftw. I have no other way to put it. If I wasn't so caught up with a few things I would immediately seek out explanations for how your contraptions work, and eagerly await this hopeful project.
I can't help but admit that I'm spurred on by these videos also. I've been delving deeper and deeper into redstone circuits on my maps and love them. Thing is that Minecraft is a bit of a barrier, apparently SecondLife is very much better in all ways for making complex things, but I'm guessing ease of entry is why I haven't touched 2ndLife and I'm hooked on MC.
I agree completely, when I saw your first video with the first ALU build, I was inspired to learn about hardware, so I got the book you mentioned. I am currently working through it and I have had some trouble visualizing some of the chips which has led to error and delay. I think this would provide the transparency that would really help to teach this kind of thing. NOT, I DONT GIVE A FUCK
I made a 3x3x3 dirt hut... Yes well i think this would be a wonderful if not brilliant idea. All we need is a server (whitelisted and all) for people to join and put the creations in :D or just a single player map where you put the things in with MCEdit.
You have honestly changed my view on Minecraft forever. I've been playing it for a while and just messing around with the regular game and been telling people you can do anything you want. And I likened it to "Lego blocks" but its now so much more than that to me. I'm very impressed by your work.
I had a lookey at the videos displaying your work. Im impressed
Mate consider talking to notch about the concept of using minecraft as a licenced educational tool, you could also try local university facultys and/or a goverment body.
With a liitle teamwork with other people knowledgeable in design I reckon you could get a project off the ground, mabye even get paid :)
I had a lookey at the videos displaying your work. Im impressed
Mate consider talking to notch about the concept of using minecraft as a licenced educational tool, you could also try local university facultys and/or a goverment body.
With a liitle teamwork with other people knowledgeable in design I reckon you could get a project off the ground, mabye even get paid :)
I've been meaning to do some experiments of my own in Minecraft. But the problem I faced was that although Minecraft is great for what you're suggesting within the Minecraft community. To anyone who doesn't know or care to know about it, it's quite a bad visual platform to explain it. Visually it's stylized and nice to people who know their retro games, but it's not 21st centuary dazzling graphics like most would prefer. But I have a fairly unfounded and uneducated opinion.
in fact theinternetftw can also state this because he has read the same material as me. the way these circuits are built in reel life are a little more complex but this will give everyone a more in depth idea of how computers work. on the millisecond by millisecond scale anyway.
i would gladly help you with this if you happen to get a server running. also i would like to point out one complication with this too all the commenters. this can only give you a generalized idea of the object because in reel life these logic circuits are not implemented this way because its not made this way.
i agree with you benbloom96 because that book although better than any out there really sticks to the "you figure it out" part and i would rather like not only a see and feel tutorial but also a picker upper any time thought "why am i doing this". oh and theinternetftw did you actually get a job out of this?
you maniac, this is brilliant idea ye! if we could get minecraft into a streamlined scenario, (1/4 size blocks for redstone and torches and such, implement 3-4 types of blocks only (display, torch, support, and redstone, and have infinite supplies and space that is ever-expanding.) then minecraft could turn into Engineer-craft, or Programcraft. i really would like to see a huge amount of progress put into simplifying the game into a learning program.
i really want to be a computer programmer but have been avoiding the hardware side of things because i feel it would be waaaaaay too complicated to learn on my own but if you and these other people you mentioned got together in minecraft, made several save files, each one detailing an individual part/chip of a computer and what it does and then a save file of the final computer along with tutorial videos, you could teach thousands of people about hardware!!! please do this!!!
@snati4 i'm in 10th grade and am interested in computers in general, but found programming to be most enjoyable so i chose that but any chance to learn more about hardware i would jump at just for the satisfaction of knowing it even if the knowledge does not serve any purpose.
I am not someone who can help you build this, but I would be the first to sign-up for entrance into the "museum." The idea gives me chills, honestly, in a good way.
Zince I am not that technical, i wouldn't be enable to contribut in actually building this museum pieces, I can however give you my personal impresson on how you set up a museum like this.
If it were for me to decide, i would make audio guides explaing the thing they are standing next to and walking upon, and give people the oppertunity to pause this guide any time they want, so the can actually interact with the museum pieces. I Strongly believe that the best way of learning, is interacting.
Once I heard about your ALU and CPU models, I went to see your videos and immediately afterward set to work trying to understand how redstone circuitry works and I've picked up on a lot of the basics. Once I get to know the intricacies of the virtual mechanics behind it all I think I'd be comfortable teaching other people how it works. I've always had a talent for putting very complex ideas into very simple terms and that's something I just haven't come across in my searches for learning tools.
You should make a server with protected plots where you could have people apply for a plot to design an exhibit. I play on a sever where they have a setup like I mentioned. You could have people log in and learn or work on exhibits. I would love to help you but I only have little experience with programming and redstone contraptions. However a a fan of science I wish you the best of luck
First of all plz thumbs up so he can see this if you like my idea
You should ask notch to add colored blocks, dim or transparent when not activated by redstone and lights up when activated, and to also add a block that when has imput from one side it keeps that and sends out the other side but if the first one changes so does the second
I totally agree with you! I would have used your world to educate students. I think its a super fantastic philosophy you got there. Its spot on, on how to educate people. If you study the works of Jean Piaget. Its to help people learn by natural learning. A good book for learning how to learn is "Mind Magic, by John Laurence Miller"
The need to transverse levels of abstraction, I would say, needs a more sophisticated interface. I would like to make a full program. Also, there are may processors. The ARM processor is very popular and fairly simple (most cell phones). i86 is rather complex, for a beginner. How things are stored on disk is messy. Is hard to understand unless intimately associated with the abstraction. Should be easy to group things and give them some kind of unique color, image, shape or icon. Good job.
It would be nice to be able to go from looking at what the transistors are doing, for the lowest level, to the logic of the processor and peripherals then to objects and functions in memory. This is a very good idea. It would take hundreds of people to do this right. One problem is microsoft doesn't want you to look at their code let alone make an abstraction of it. Opensource saves the day.
Yes. It should be done. I've been thinking about this for years. I like the Minecraft idea but it has it's limitations. I've come to imagine using blender to make the representations and incorporating the integrated game engine to make it interactive. Then attaching the engine to an emulator such as bochs . sourceforge . net. It could be used as a debugger, programming environment, teaching environment.
Perhaps someone should build a computer in Minecraft that can run certain programs that would make it possible to create games, and then make an exact copy of minecraft on the computer so people can play Minecraft, IN MINECRAFT!
i think this computer would be great, for being a core of a world, like a city we build in multiplayer, it could control things like traffic with minecarts, and everything that we could think of.
I think this would be a great educational tool for people new in the study of computer architecture. It may even inspire people to enter the computer engineering field. It amazes me to see buses light up and multiplexers in action in a virtual world. When I studied computer architecture in college, it was all just on paper using the symbols of NAND gates, logic grids, etc. I found just that fascinating. I don't know much about Minecraft yet...kind of curious of neural networks can be done.
@djdolber Agreed. Also, I recommend finding a code-based approach to being able to copy and paste the basic CPU's "chunks" so that we can easily duplicate the base processor and then modify the programming for different purposes. And if anyone can come up with a more compact way of building this, try it! The scale of this CPU is mind boggling, and it's hard to relate. It might be a good idea to start with a smaller (8 bit?) processor to start the demonstrations.
If you just want to demonstrate the basics of CPU design, you could just make a one or even two bit CPU and go through the parts bit by bit. The extra bits are usually just repetition of each other anyway.
Speaking of a science museum in real life, if you ever get the chance, visit Universum Science Center in Bremen, Germany. All of the exhibits are huge and interactive. They have everything from a 10 by 6 ft platform where you can feel different magnitude earthquakes, to 40 ft waterway where you can mess with the flow of water and observe fluid dynamics, as well as a ton of small exhibits that show various properties of light, sound, physics, etc. What you described in the video reminded me of it
Something like Minecraft is a perfect place to show hardware design down to the very fine details. If I had anything to contribute, believe me, I would.
Something like this could really educate a lot of potential computer engineers to start learning hardware designs.
My suggestion: Make a website dedicated to the uploading of these Minecraft levels you talk about. Of course moderate them so they aren't just a dick.
This could be really big. I may just try to help if I can think of a way.
I think that you could produce a tutorial video (or a set of tutorial videos) explaining: how a basic one works, how one can be made/extended, what you can do with it, or anything else for that matter. I wouldn't know where to start, it seems like a computer inside a computer to me... But I do know that people LOVE tutorial videos. The thing is that unless it is able to operate cool functions of some kind, people might not take imediate interest, or see the use/fun/ of it.
I agree completely, when I saw your first video with the first ALU build, I was inspired to learn about hardware, so I got the book you mentioned. I am currently working through it and I have had some trouble visualizing some of the chips which has led to error and delay. I think this would provide the transparency that would really help to teach this kind of thing.
Thats an absolutely amazing idea, I've yet to build anything "amazing" but i would love to learn how, most of the stuff is exactly like you said "Hey look at me i'm so skilled, buuuuut, I won't tell you how". Any way to spread the wealth of knowledge earned by one person to others is always fantastic and doing it in Minecraft just makes it unimaginable conducive to learning
This would be great, however, I do not think that Minecraft provides an environment that is conducive to your idea. I may be wrong as I have yet to play a full week of the game, but there seems to be no way to write longs strings of text to explain things. It would be great to have this and I would contribute if I could but alas.
@jeffreygeee i think hes saying that we could build the contraptions in such a way that they are easy to explain with a youtube video or some voice chatting
Even before the multiplayer issues get worked out, it could be pretty helpful if you just got a simple website up with a bunch of save files that contained these different "exhibits."
A public, interactive technology museum inside Minecraft? I think it's a brilliant idea and one that really shows the potential the game has. My advice is to wait until multiplayer is less buggy and more complete, which Notch is really focusing on. But an idea-sharing venue inside a video game sounds awesome.
I completely agree...The things that I have made using redstone and placed on youtube I have tried to add explanations for at the same time. Either in step-by-step building form or a second video that goes through just the logic.
While it's a game, Minecraft can be a valuable learning aid. I myself have been an electronics hobbyist for a while, and figuring out how to implement things like this in-game has given me a new appreciation and understanding of the their low-level operation.
For instance, if I knew what to make, and if it's not needing anything with bitmath, I could probably make it, then upload a video of it. It might be really awesome and amazing and such but I'll never get a lot of polularity on it.
I like to be able to help people by doing my hobbies, so if this project will get up, I'd love to participate(if I had any idea for something to make, I'm not very creative)
Me and a friend were talking about this today, if redstone was a bit more mature and we had capacitors then we could learn quite a bit of electronics from it.
This sounds like a brilliant idea i really hope you can get this project working. If I had the slightest knowledge of these things I would definitely help. Anyway, I'd certainly love to learn more about for example your ALU. Good luck!
@theinternetftw So what you are suggesting is a multiplayer server or regularly updated save file, filled with explanations of how things work in the real world not just in minecraft. Furthermore people could contact you or the admin of the server to get the rights to create an exhibit? Brilliant. It would show people how things work, and why they do. Im all with you on this idea so if it gets off of the ground please PM me ,
Why can't you make a basic redstone tutorial? it could start out easy by explaining the basics and maybe some logic gates. then it could get a bit more complex by making bigger things.
I'm only 15 and I used to have absolutely no idea how CPUs or ALUs worked but watching your videos got me thinking more about it and reading more about it and now I have a much better understanding of how all this stuff works. You are absolutely right, visualizing it like this is the best way to learn.
Oh no! I thumbed youre video down Dude I am so sorry! I love this idea, And i would like to help but i am not to smart enough for this (yet when the musuem comes online I am going to learn alot more) Dude you are awesome!.
@Massap2 if u accidently thumbs down, you can just click thumbs up ;) also it doesnt matter, up or down thumbs, good or bad comments...all give him more views
If i could learn how computers work while using an interactive minecraft world to explore the mechanics of it...... I would be in heaven. Not exaggerating, that would be honestly amazing.
@GigaBoost I thought the same thing, and then felt rude for thinking he had autism because of his voice. and then extremely gay for thinking he actually looked good. so many feelings, i'm so confused! why does he have to look normal DX
Absolutely brilliant idea. I like the death stare at the end as well.
DethCaek 6 months ago
He died!? Wtffffffffff
0x0D0x0 6 months ago
@0x0D0x0 no he didnt.
Minecraftmonkeys 4 months ago in playlist Weitere Videos von theinternetftw
No offense, but 6:18 to 6:23 was a long, awkward moment for me. lol
I do like your concepts, though.
soule187 6 months ago
I think he wanted us, his followers and fans to do this, not him
JamEngulfer221 6 months ago
He would have loved redstone repeaters :(
I'm pretty sure he died, he said so in his last video's title
JamEngulfer221 6 months ago
@JamEngulfer221 he was kidding
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I learned alot more of PC by watching people build this advanced redstone contraptions than to learn from watching a real PC
HyperCamJonna 7 months ago
I would love this !
YksiSuomalainen 7 months ago
I can feel your excitement in this brilliant idea. I like this a lot :) I wish I knew you because you would be a great person to chat with!
DjCosmicRush 7 months ago 5
i agreee!!! lets set up an operating system, you can do programm counting, i can do the ALU calculating part, i know a guy who can do an GPU and then we just need a soundcard!!
Minecraftmonkeys 7 months ago
@Minecraftmonkeys note blocks!!!
MASTURCHEEF001 7 months ago
Amazing idea! I wish I knew how to use Minecraft better so that I could contribute to this...
BluishGreenPro 7 months ago
ur a genius u should be a billionaire i hope ur payed a lot
sweeness13 8 months ago
@sweeness13 I'm not trying to be rude, but this knowledge is not too hard to learn. You could read from a textbook and understand how to make computers. Th reason why it is so amazing is because it is a computer literally within a computer.
ixcaliber 7 months ago
@ixcaliber The learning process itself is rather easy, I agree, but it's about a way to make learning engaging and I think Minecraft is a great platform for this. In fact, this could even be used in schools and it enables the people who want to learn this to not only look at diagrams of such a contraption, but to interact with it, examine it and build it themselves.
Nixitur 7 months ago
Minecraft used in this way is a massive, massive educational tool. I knew little about logic gates/circuits and now I'm passing a lot of my physics tests at school, It's amazing.
Gergus008 8 months ago
I would love to get this thing rolling with you and probably a good amount more peple, but I'm only 12 and am limited to my age restraints and knowledge of redstone which is high but not high enoughi believe.
Stealthmonkey59 8 months ago
I agree. Minecraft could totally be used to show how these types of things work, and I would help you do this in a second, but I'm just some dumb bastard who doesn't understand how these things work. At all. Actually, I was hoping to learn from you, and I did download your save file for the ALU and CPU, and am planning to study them.
elaboraterevenge996 8 months ago
I'd be interested to know what sort of a response you've had. Have many people with similar knowledge levels come forward with support? What sorts of things have you thought about since this video? Thanks!
Pixor 9 months ago
HELP!
I need help from someone that is pretty good at redstone. I need to make something that alows me to have 1 input and 24 outputs. I want the output to change when i press a button.
so when it gets a input it changes to nr. 2 After the next input nr.2 is on and 1 is off and so on.
I'm pretty sure i need to use ts/t flip-flops, i tried to connect them in a row, it didin't work out 2 well :P heh
Please just send me a message if you know how to do this.
roi677 10 months ago
@roi677 maybe u should try the minecraft forums might be a better place to get an answer
emerybryant 9 months ago
I love the idea. I am someone looking to make my career in Computer science and something like this would definetly help me understand a PC and its components.
It is true that a PC in its entirety is hard to understand all at once, and Virtual computer designing as you siad can show what each bit does in contribution to the whole. Its basic learning. its visual learning which is very effective. Its how one learns to even understand math as a child.
SenHai 10 months ago
YES! That is brilliant!
I would SO Love that!
Someone else said that we could all have a bit of the computer to do, that would be interesting. ;)
JamEngulfer221 10 months ago
Stop thinking just make the computer to be the worlds greatest minecraftian!!!
thegamegeek13 10 months ago
Maybe program minecraft using the entire minecraft world :3 lol jk thats impossible, but still, its a very interesting thought
UnusedSaminator 10 months ago
I agree totally. You are a complete genious. And I have made many awesome things with redstone, but I guess this is all outdated now since im 4 months late. Let me know :)
TNLman 11 months ago
You have my 32bit carry lookahead. (maybe my hack platform computer.)(probs the ROM)
redstonewarrior 11 months ago
You have my axe!!!!!!!!
mrhammer1777 11 months ago 2
Thanks for getting me interested in binary. This stuff is fascinating, in an insanely complicated way.
TheSpiralOrder 11 months ago
it would be good besause i always wonted to know how all the meny circits in a computer work together to take inputs and prosece them in to what you see on the computer
you have my suport :D
SOLIER1000 11 months ago
It would be cooler if everyone was assigned to develop a different part of a minecraft computer and then after that all the many parts were connected and we had like an actual computer in Minecraft. After that is accomplished, I swear that would be another huge step in humanity. Even though you're computers are already.
NexCarnifex 1 year ago 2
This is a great idea! I really, really hope this gets made!
pepzit 1 year ago
dude your voice changes every video, on a side note you are a genius
criticman123 1 year ago
i think that this is a wonderful idea , but surely it only takes the three idiots who pressed dislike to spoil it for everyone? However, if that could be overridden then i am sure that there are hundreds maybe thousands of people like me that would be awed by walking around the museum that you have envisaged.
phezman2 1 year ago
Dude! You've got a brain! unlike many others T.T
RobloxmannenTV 1 year ago
I absolutely love this idea. Your videos have given me a complete fascination with binary logic and electronics as a whole. I hope to start learning more about what you do for fun. The level at witch you play is just a little to complex for a layman like me. I would love to see these circuits broken down into simple ideas and see how they relate to each other.
Dracanic 1 year ago 3
greatest idea ever!!!!
WILLYWANKA75 1 year ago
I would absolutely love this. I would like to know how these computer etc. work from the very first beginnings.
Thanks, keep up the work.
rico4u2day2 1 year ago
This is a great idea.
4z4i 1 year ago
This is a fantastic idea. Even after powering through textbooks on CPU's I still find it hard to grasp the complexities of how they work. I find the idea of being taken on a guided tour through one very appealing.
This idea could then be taken further, why not create a gigantic Minecraft version of the human body, so we can see and walk through various biological functions. Or perhaps a model of how chemicals act at the subatomic level, or even a giant combustion engine. Endless possibilities.
TheFounderUtopia 1 year ago 2
You are an admirable man, theinternetftw. I have no other way to put it. If I wasn't so caught up with a few things I would immediately seek out explanations for how your contraptions work, and eagerly await this hopeful project.
Skidonti 1 year ago
I can't help but admit that I'm spurred on by these videos also. I've been delving deeper and deeper into redstone circuits on my maps and love them. Thing is that Minecraft is a bit of a barrier, apparently SecondLife is very much better in all ways for making complex things, but I'm guessing ease of entry is why I haven't touched 2ndLife and I'm hooked on MC.
beyonder420 1 year ago
I like the way you talk. its like, nerdy, but also cool?
And you don't sound full of yourself.
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I agree completely, when I saw your first video with the first ALU build, I was inspired to learn about hardware, so I got the book you mentioned. I am currently working through it and I have had some trouble visualizing some of the chips which has led to error and delay. I think this would provide the transparency that would really help to teach this kind of thing. NOT, I DONT GIVE A FUCK
lolwut
eytanos 1 year ago
I made a 3x3x3 dirt hut... Yes well i think this would be a wonderful if not brilliant idea. All we need is a server (whitelisted and all) for people to join and put the creations in :D or just a single player map where you put the things in with MCEdit.
MrLegendman3 1 year ago
I see the future.
trumpet43samurai 1 year ago
we need more too see this
jadenjak 1 year ago
You have honestly changed my view on Minecraft forever. I've been playing it for a while and just messing around with the regular game and been telling people you can do anything you want. And I likened it to "Lego blocks" but its now so much more than that to me. I'm very impressed by your work.
Vaughnlesterinoz 1 year ago 56
I buildt a house and stuff u know.......
saxcstyle 1 year ago 4
Couldn't agree more with you. I wonder if Notch ever thought MC would go this far.
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I had a lookey at the videos displaying your work. Im impressed
Mate consider talking to notch about the concept of using minecraft as a licenced educational tool, you could also try local university facultys and/or a goverment body.
With a liitle teamwork with other people knowledgeable in design I reckon you could get a project off the ground, mabye even get paid :)
murpheymr 1 year ago
I had a lookey at the videos displaying your work. Im impressed
Mate consider talking to notch about the concept of using minecraft as a licenced educational tool, you could also try local university facultys and/or a goverment body.
With a liitle teamwork with other people knowledgeable in design I reckon you could get a project off the ground, mabye even get paid :)
murpheymr 1 year ago
I've been meaning to do some experiments of my own in Minecraft. But the problem I faced was that although Minecraft is great for what you're suggesting within the Minecraft community. To anyone who doesn't know or care to know about it, it's quite a bad visual platform to explain it. Visually it's stylized and nice to people who know their retro games, but it's not 21st centuary dazzling graphics like most would prefer. But I have a fairly unfounded and uneducated opinion.
CounterNormal 1 year ago
I realllllly love what you have done .... and the little cough at the end made me laugh - I think its should be your signature haha
7thAttempt 1 year ago
in fact theinternetftw can also state this because he has read the same material as me. the way these circuits are built in reel life are a little more complex but this will give everyone a more in depth idea of how computers work. on the millisecond by millisecond scale anyway.
trapfethen 1 year ago
i would gladly help you with this if you happen to get a server running. also i would like to point out one complication with this too all the commenters. this can only give you a generalized idea of the object because in reel life these logic circuits are not implemented this way because its not made this way.
trapfethen 1 year ago
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trapfethen 1 year ago
i agree with you benbloom96 because that book although better than any out there really sticks to the "you figure it out" part and i would rather like not only a see and feel tutorial but also a picker upper any time thought "why am i doing this". oh and theinternetftw did you actually get a job out of this?
trapfethen 1 year ago
Great idea!
DrZaius42 1 year ago
you maniac, this is brilliant idea ye! if we could get minecraft into a streamlined scenario, (1/4 size blocks for redstone and torches and such, implement 3-4 types of blocks only (display, torch, support, and redstone, and have infinite supplies and space that is ever-expanding.) then minecraft could turn into Engineer-craft, or Programcraft. i really would like to see a huge amount of progress put into simplifying the game into a learning program.
imakedookie 1 year ago
Do it!
thepunisher4356 1 year ago
please do this
4at4ish 1 year ago
i really want to be a computer programmer but have been avoiding the hardware side of things because i feel it would be waaaaaay too complicated to learn on my own but if you and these other people you mentioned got together in minecraft, made several save files, each one detailing an individual part/chip of a computer and what it does and then a save file of the final computer along with tutorial videos, you could teach thousands of people about hardware!!! please do this!!!
4at4ish 1 year ago
@4at4ish that's not a part of "programming" maybe you need to go back to the 10th grade?
snati4 1 year ago
@snati4 i'm in 10th grade and am interested in computers in general, but found programming to be most enjoyable so i chose that but any chance to learn more about hardware i would jump at just for the satisfaction of knowing it even if the knowledge does not serve any purpose.
4at4ish 1 year ago
@4at4ish Oh, then maybe the 9th grade?
snati4 1 year ago
really clever idea, I'll be keeping tabs on it but not sure if I could contribute :s
DSBrekus 1 year ago
I am not someone who can help you build this, but I would be the first to sign-up for entrance into the "museum." The idea gives me chills, honestly, in a good way.
SageHazzard 1 year ago
Zince I am not that technical, i wouldn't be enable to contribut in actually building this museum pieces, I can however give you my personal impresson on how you set up a museum like this.
If it were for me to decide, i would make audio guides explaing the thing they are standing next to and walking upon, and give people the oppertunity to pause this guide any time they want, so the can actually interact with the museum pieces. I Strongly believe that the best way of learning, is interacting.
kweenie76 1 year ago
Once I heard about your ALU and CPU models, I went to see your videos and immediately afterward set to work trying to understand how redstone circuitry works and I've picked up on a lot of the basics. Once I get to know the intricacies of the virtual mechanics behind it all I think I'd be comfortable teaching other people how it works. I've always had a talent for putting very complex ideas into very simple terms and that's something I just haven't come across in my searches for learning tools.
madhatterdead 1 year ago
You should make a server with protected plots where you could have people apply for a plot to design an exhibit. I play on a sever where they have a setup like I mentioned. You could have people log in and learn or work on exhibits. I would love to help you but I only have little experience with programming and redstone contraptions. However a a fan of science I wish you the best of luck
bananaramaseitz 1 year ago
1 person has a computer worse than the one he made on minecraft...
Llolo96 1 year ago
:O he doesnt even look nerdy!
bloodshot16 1 year ago
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This faggot looks like a bloated 11 year old with his chin dipped in shit.
bugmenot1125 1 year ago
u all so mad ;_; must defend the worthless work of a half-retarded attention fag ;_;
Jall, go post some more World of Warcraft videos, loser. bahalaoalaololololol
bugmenot1125 1 year ago
First of all plz thumbs up so he can see this if you like my idea
You should ask notch to add colored blocks, dim or transparent when not activated by redstone and lights up when activated, and to also add a block that when has imput from one side it keeps that and sends out the other side but if the first one changes so does the second
1zacster 1 year ago
Please see a specialist about your speech impediment before you choose to narrate your own videos. Thank you.
bugmenot1125 1 year ago
@bugmenot1125 go fuck yourself!
snati4 1 year ago
@bugmenot1125 go fuck yourself!
SailZStarZ 1 year ago
@bugmenot1125 you can't fix a speech impediment... and as Sail said, well, you know the rest.
CeatcodeDelta32 1 year ago
@bugmenot1125 Please go eat shit and die before you decide to post nonsense. Thank you. Also, Fuck your mother.
You mad?
Jallandhara 1 year ago
griefers would ruin you
Wilks228 1 year ago
I totally agree with you! I would have used your world to educate students. I think its a super fantastic philosophy you got there. Its spot on, on how to educate people. If you study the works of Jean Piaget. Its to help people learn by natural learning. A good book for learning how to learn is "Mind Magic, by John Laurence Miller"
leafwiz83 1 year ago
I could help, erm i know how to make a current go longer than 8 blocks.
Bananapoopman 1 year ago
The need to transverse levels of abstraction, I would say, needs a more sophisticated interface. I would like to make a full program. Also, there are may processors. The ARM processor is very popular and fairly simple (most cell phones). i86 is rather complex, for a beginner. How things are stored on disk is messy. Is hard to understand unless intimately associated with the abstraction. Should be easy to group things and give them some kind of unique color, image, shape or icon. Good job.
abebarker 1 year ago
It would be nice to be able to go from looking at what the transistors are doing, for the lowest level, to the logic of the processor and peripherals then to objects and functions in memory. This is a very good idea. It would take hundreds of people to do this right. One problem is microsoft doesn't want you to look at their code let alone make an abstraction of it. Opensource saves the day.
abebarker 1 year ago
Yes. It should be done. I've been thinking about this for years. I like the Minecraft idea but it has it's limitations. I've come to imagine using blender to make the representations and incorporating the integrated game engine to make it interactive. Then attaching the engine to an emulator such as bochs . sourceforge . net. It could be used as a debugger, programming environment, teaching environment.
abebarker 1 year ago
Perhaps someone should build a computer in Minecraft that can run certain programs that would make it possible to create games, and then make an exact copy of minecraft on the computer so people can play Minecraft, IN MINECRAFT!
PsytranceMan777 1 year ago
@PsytranceMan777 that's entirely possible
pyrotechnick 1 year ago
Here is my feedback ... gist . github . com / 713344
It was too long for a youtube comment...
pyrotechnick 1 year ago
i think this computer would be great, for being a core of a world, like a city we build in multiplayer, it could control things like traffic with minecarts, and everything that we could think of.
Rbanhegyi 1 year ago
It would be GREAT. Hell i would even help you build it if you decide to start working with it.
timonix2 1 year ago
you are a true visionary.
aviindub 1 year ago 2
I think this would be a great educational tool for people new in the study of computer architecture. It may even inspire people to enter the computer engineering field. It amazes me to see buses light up and multiplexers in action in a virtual world. When I studied computer architecture in college, it was all just on paper using the symbols of NAND gates, logic grids, etc. I found just that fascinating. I don't know much about Minecraft yet...kind of curious of neural networks can be done.
thromulak 1 year ago
this is an awesome idea
lolppl100 1 year ago
i'd say :add more tags, especially since this is about reaching out to the ordinairy folks out there.
people like me, i found this through your channel.
not from searching.
DICTATIOR 1 year ago
the museum could be a survival server, with warp tags to specific exihibitions. im already envisioning it: mineseum.craft.net :D
lolololAdnan 1 year ago
do it, one step at a time, my advice, keep it a living organic thing instead of one big thing that possibly never gets released..
djdolber 1 year ago
@djdolber Agreed. Also, I recommend finding a code-based approach to being able to copy and paste the basic CPU's "chunks" so that we can easily duplicate the base processor and then modify the programming for different purposes. And if anyone can come up with a more compact way of building this, try it! The scale of this CPU is mind boggling, and it's hard to relate. It might be a good idea to start with a smaller (8 bit?) processor to start the demonstrations.
BurnsideKing 1 year ago
@BurnsideKing
If you just want to demonstrate the basics of CPU design, you could just make a one or even two bit CPU and go through the parts bit by bit. The extra bits are usually just repetition of each other anyway.
Watermark0n 1 year ago
Speaking of a science museum in real life, if you ever get the chance, visit Universum Science Center in Bremen, Germany. All of the exhibits are huge and interactive. They have everything from a 10 by 6 ft platform where you can feel different magnitude earthquakes, to 40 ft waterway where you can mess with the flow of water and observe fluid dynamics, as well as a ton of small exhibits that show various properties of light, sound, physics, etc. What you described in the video reminded me of it
davidfg4 1 year ago
I'm game for checking out these interactive demos, if they ever get started. Sounds awesome.
LinkTetraWW 1 year ago
your videos are top notch, mate. keep up the great work!
NJHCJerry 1 year ago
@NJHCJerry lol u said notch
16982161 1 year ago
I just want to work out how to flash lights on and off.
RainbowPwnz 1 year ago
Something like Minecraft is a perfect place to show hardware design down to the very fine details. If I had anything to contribute, believe me, I would.
Something like this could really educate a lot of potential computer engineers to start learning hardware designs.
My suggestion: Make a website dedicated to the uploading of these Minecraft levels you talk about. Of course moderate them so they aren't just a dick.
This could be really big. I may just try to help if I can think of a way.
Toweleeiee 1 year ago
i can make very compact prom in minecraft, and explain how it works)
artemoonlv 1 year ago
You sir are awesome.
Chavtheworld 1 year ago
I must ask! are you russian? :P .. also can I suggest you use a better mic! :P
cool video and ideas though!
EvilSiper 1 year ago
Talk to Notch. Cooperative sharing of save files would be vital to this, and it hasn't been implemented yet.
OyVeey 1 year ago
You should try to show your videos to some schools.
TheBestNameEverMade 1 year ago
"Oh crap is this still filming?"
ZachBora 1 year ago
Gawd you're hot.
Anyway, I think this is a really, really cool idea. Good luck, man, I hope this works out.
MoonCalledShadesri 1 year ago
I'm glad that your not coughing anymore! I hope your feeling better.
Clatapist 1 year ago
Sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately I have none of the skills required to help with the task you have proposed.
SuperKickAss145 1 year ago
Im totally for it. Its a good idea overall, will take alot of manpower and work to get it done right, and in a way that will keep it greif-free.
Sumani2 1 year ago
I think that you could produce a tutorial video (or a set of tutorial videos) explaining: how a basic one works, how one can be made/extended, what you can do with it, or anything else for that matter. I wouldn't know where to start, it seems like a computer inside a computer to me... But I do know that people LOVE tutorial videos. The thing is that unless it is able to operate cool functions of some kind, people might not take imediate interest, or see the use/fun/ of it.
sp1k8 1 year ago
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So like wikipedia in Minecraft.
As awesome as this would be and I would love for this to happen, there will always be people who would try to ruin it all.
Solash15 1 year ago
So like wikipedia in Minecraft.
As awesome as this would be and I would love for this to happen, there will always be people who would try to ruin it all.
Solash15 1 year ago
there are a few glitches with redstone in smp still, but it still works decently
alch3mist785 1 year ago
I agree completely, when I saw your first video with the first ALU build, I was inspired to learn about hardware, so I got the book you mentioned. I am currently working through it and I have had some trouble visualizing some of the chips which has led to error and delay. I think this would provide the transparency that would really help to teach this kind of thing.
benbloom96 1 year ago 43
@benbloom96 what was the name of the book he mentioned?
theLichKing1 1 year ago
@theLichKing1 The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles, by Nisan and Schocken.
HaploTR 1 year ago
@HaploTR thanks.. i ordered the book and it arrived today.. read the introduction and i'm hooked :)
i think this guy should be compensated from both the book author and the minecraft developer
theLichKing1 1 year ago
Thats an absolutely amazing idea, I've yet to build anything "amazing" but i would love to learn how, most of the stuff is exactly like you said "Hey look at me i'm so skilled, buuuuut, I won't tell you how". Any way to spread the wealth of knowledge earned by one person to others is always fantastic and doing it in Minecraft just makes it unimaginable conducive to learning
EtagAwesome 1 year ago
This would be great, however, I do not think that Minecraft provides an environment that is conducive to your idea. I may be wrong as I have yet to play a full week of the game, but there seems to be no way to write longs strings of text to explain things. It would be great to have this and I would contribute if I could but alas.
jeffreygeee 1 year ago
@jeffreygeee i think hes saying that we could build the contraptions in such a way that they are easy to explain with a youtube video or some voice chatting
EzioAuditoreDiPortal 1 year ago
This would be awesome!
BpJohnny79 1 year ago
Even before the multiplayer issues get worked out, it could be pretty helpful if you just got a simple website up with a bunch of save files that contained these different "exhibits."
kzxqrit 1 year ago
Great idea!
Also, if you're have a hard time understanding him, turn on the captions. They really work now!
ert00034 1 year ago
@ert00034 i believe he wrote the caption in
smijman 1 year ago
sounds like a good idea!
thinktothemax 1 year ago
A public, interactive technology museum inside Minecraft? I think it's a brilliant idea and one that really shows the potential the game has. My advice is to wait until multiplayer is less buggy and more complete, which Notch is really focusing on. But an idea-sharing venue inside a video game sounds awesome.
thenoco25 1 year ago
I completely agree...The things that I have made using redstone and placed on youtube I have tried to add explanations for at the same time. Either in step-by-step building form or a second video that goes through just the logic.
While it's a game, Minecraft can be a valuable learning aid. I myself have been an electronics hobbyist for a while, and figuring out how to implement things like this in-game has given me a new appreciation and understanding of the their low-level operation.
Harbingerx81 1 year ago
I think this is a pretty good idea.
For instance, if I knew what to make, and if it's not needing anything with bitmath, I could probably make it, then upload a video of it. It might be really awesome and amazing and such but I'll never get a lot of polularity on it.
I like to be able to help people by doing my hobbies, so if this project will get up, I'd love to participate(if I had any idea for something to make, I'm not very creative)
Good luck with trying to set this up.
Bullsh0t1 1 year ago
Me and a friend were talking about this today, if redstone was a bit more mature and we had capacitors then we could learn quite a bit of electronics from it.
eggbloke1 1 year ago
This sounds like a brilliant idea i really hope you can get this project working. If I had the slightest knowledge of these things I would definitely help. Anyway, I'd certainly love to learn more about for example your ALU. Good luck!
jacubthemighty 1 year ago
great idea, id love to learn bout logic stuff in such a thing
Obstbaum1337 1 year ago
This is a brilliant idea keep the good work up.
Kooomatey 1 year ago
You’re a bit of a genius, if I’m not mistaken.
bennieee 1 year ago
You sir are freaking amazing!
Kersmashx 1 year ago
Where's the coughing? (just kidding ^^) I totally support the idea.
UnconventionalDice 1 year ago
@theinternetftw So what you are suggesting is a multiplayer server or regularly updated save file, filled with explanations of how things work in the real world not just in minecraft. Furthermore people could contact you or the admin of the server to get the rights to create an exhibit? Brilliant. It would show people how things work, and why they do. Im all with you on this idea so if it gets off of the ground please PM me ,
Peterscanlonpoop.
peterscanlonpoop 1 year ago
Suggestion:
Why can't you make a basic redstone tutorial? it could start out easy by explaining the basics and maybe some logic gates. then it could get a bit more complex by making bigger things.
TheLittleMan123 1 year ago
Yes we want that !
MeLoveSpoons 1 year ago
I'm only 15 and I used to have absolutely no idea how CPUs or ALUs worked but watching your videos got me thinking more about it and reading more about it and now I have a much better understanding of how all this stuff works. You are absolutely right, visualizing it like this is the best way to learn.
sanman312 1 year ago
Oh no! I thumbed youre video down Dude I am so sorry! I love this idea, And i would like to help but i am not to smart enough for this (yet when the musuem comes online I am going to learn alot more) Dude you are awesome!.
Massap2 1 year ago
@Massap2 if u accidently thumbs down, you can just click thumbs up ;) also it doesnt matter, up or down thumbs, good or bad comments...all give him more views
Squireeee 1 year ago
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Massap2 1 year ago
What a talented guy.
EpicWinJamie 1 year ago
You are beyond amazing with your ideas and talents, and I really hope that all of this will continue and progress!
Wolfy9247 1 year ago 49
@Wolfy9247 intel should hire him!
snati4 1 year ago 76
@snati4 nah, we want innovation. new ideas.
bartzis 1 year ago
@snati4 Everyone should hire him!
sumweirdkid123 1 year ago
each block is like an atom ur god in minecraft
kulalase18 1 year ago
If you managed to break down each individual part and give a simple, detailed explanation each part, it would definitely work.
crashin1 1 year ago
you are a fucking genious, good that you dont have a cough anymore ;) hehe
BearJohnful 1 year ago
@BearJohnful A genious? You should probably turn on spell check...
VulgarityDivine 1 year ago
@VulgarityDivine i didn't say *I* was the genius ;)
BearJohnful 1 year ago
wat?
prof89 1 year ago
look at the interactive transcript, its actually working. good job google :)
TB674 1 year ago
If i could learn how computers work while using an interactive minecraft world to explore the mechanics of it...... I would be in heaven. Not exaggerating, that would be honestly amazing.
ImnonXProductions 1 year ago
Why the subtitles? We can understand you fine dude.
McDux0r 1 year ago
@McDux0r For the deaf and for people whose native tongue isn't English it's very useful. :)
CPnieuws 1 year ago
Sounds very interesting and it could be a great tool for learning and perhaps even teaching
CptnNormality 1 year ago
Sounds interesting. How to actually do it however...
Uberubert99 1 year ago
Sounds like an awesome idea. Imagine what you could do with a museum that's potentially 8x the size of the surface of the earth...
robinjam304 1 year ago
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Oh man, he actually looks normal? I expected some obese autistic greaseball...
Man, he's actually kind of hot :3
GigaBoost 1 year ago 110
@GigaBoost I thought the same thing, and then felt rude for thinking he had autism because of his voice. and then extremely gay for thinking he actually looked good. so many feelings, i'm so confused! why does he have to look normal DX
ImnonXProductions 1 year ago