Minecraft “Adventure Update” trailer released

The forthcoming 1.8 "Adventure Update" of Minecraft adds randomly-generated villages, a more refined control system and game mechanics, larger and more realistic ocean and mountain biomes, and the Endermen.

If you never look directly at Endermen, shadowy creatures with long and narrow limbs, they don't even notice you. But once you do, they turn and stand and look at you, too. As long as you're looking directly at Endermen, they'll stay put and you'll stay safe. "As soon as you look away," creator Notch writes, "they will run (very fast) towards you."

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Minecraft in real life

Ben Purdy made this "real life" Minecraft block. Very cool!

Now that I’m working on projection mapping it was only a matter of time before this happened. Thanks to my brother for the inspiration, he mentioned that one of the other projection mapping examples looked a bit like a minecraft block. Once the idea popped into my head I had to give it a try.

There’s a piezo element taped to the box and hooked up to an arduino. The arduino senses the physical impact with the piezo element and sends serial data to my PC. Processing picks up the serial signal and takes care of the projection and interaction (particles, etc).

Minecraft in real life

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