Minecraft - Interview with 3D Printer Model Maker Alexander Boden

An exclusive interview with Alexander Boden, the infamous 3D printer model maker who created a village in Minecraft and then recreating it as a small scale model (each block is only 1mm). He did this by working with his research colleague Sebastian Draxler, utilizing a variety of software tools and a (not inexpensive) Zprinter 650 - 3D printer, owned by the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) dept of Siegen University in Germany.

For those more interested in the work of this research group, more can be found about them and work in the field of HCI here:

http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/index.html.en?lang=en

They are currently looking for more students to be part of their HCI masters program.

Also more information can be found about other 3D printers from ZCorp and the other applications they are being used for at http://www.zcorp.com

The music at the start of this story is the in-game Minecraft music track "Moog City" composed by C418, an interview with whom can be found at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJpvKfYkebI

Also more information about all things Minecraft related can be found at this great resource:

http://www.MinecraftForum.net

This interview was conducted by Curse video dept staff member Olly.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Curse
• Minecraft
• Mojang
• 3D printer
• Alexander Boden
• Sebastian Draxler
• Shape Works
• University
• research
• model making
• CAD
• video gaming
• video game
• HD

[CindiiLuv]

Fuck making things by hand.

We have technology now. :D

[BannanaOfDoom]

supper GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OO

[bartybum]

I guess printing out elmo114's biggest ship on mc-server.co.uk is out of the equation...

[AnD3rZe3N]

now make glowstone GLOW :3

[FactorXTech]

What I want to see now..... make the whole map from Runescape :D

[foodyling]

@TheJe7e The idea is to build minecraft models in real life.

[driveandkill]

@zharrrhen Mistyped that, not funy at all.

[zharrrhen]

@driveandkill It's funny because you said egnlish

[zharrrhen]

"This makes really sense to recycle it" ? I'll take it!

[antiochia888]

of course german ;)

[WaterblackxD]

wtf? man i like the idea but can i make this by hand ?? :D

thanks now for your answers :D

[driveandkill]

Wow I hate how germans speak egnlish :D even tho im german too, it sounds extremely different than this when ím talking