Man builds working hard drive inside Minecraft

[Markus]

Minecraft is one of those games where your creativity is your limit, and it's amazing how much you can do in it, Cody Littley managed to build a hard drive with a suprising capasity of, wait for it, 1KB.

“When I built the the device, I didn’t have anything in mind that I wanted to store on it, I built it for the sake of the challenge,” he says. “A surprisingly large number of commentators on Reddit think I should store 1KB of porn on it.”

 

What do you guys think? 

 

Source: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/man-builds-working-hard-drive-inside-minecraft/

[BallGum]

I'm surprised it is even one kilobyte. Man, that thing must be huge.

[Askew]

wow, I didn't know that was possible, how do you transfer data to that!?

[dlf]

Saving data within data . . . dataception. It'd be interesting if they could build a working PC, and one that emulates minecraft.

[Xorbot]

This reminds me of using the Game of Life to construct circuit boards via gliders.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

 

With gliders, you can construct logic gates such as AND, OR, and NOT.  Perhaps this game can be used as a CPU, and Minecraft can be used for storage, and we can make a meta-computer using games running on existing computers.  Then, those computers can be used to develop games that in turn can be used to replicate computers themselves in much the same way.

 

Does not not make you wonder that we ourselves are just the by-product of a higher-level computer simulation?

[bcredeur97]

Saving data within data . . . dataception. It'd be interesting if they could build a working PC, and one that emulates minecraft.

that would be so big and require so many chunks to be loaded... in fact building it by hand would probabaly take 10 years or more... and your pc that your building with would have to be very powerful to keep all those chunks loaded and redstone working.

[aidenrelkoff]

wow, I didn't know that was possible, how do you transfer data to that!?

If i had to guess, probably turning redstone levers on and off to sybolize 1's and 0's

 

#binarycoding

[Trik'Stari]

Why is it surprising that reddit comentators want him to store porn on that?

[aidenrelkoff]

Saving data within data . . . dataception. It'd be interesting if they could build a working PC, and one that emulates minecraft.

one guy made a 64x64 res screen and had a pre programed in little movie of a MC pig eating a carrot, although it was just black and white, only 8 seconds long, and like 2fps

[aidenrelkoff]

Why is it surprising that reddit comentators want him to store porn on that?

lawl, i bet that would be the most secure way to store anything, the government would have to spend year trying to decode a minecraft map

[archip]

wow, I didn't know that was possible, how do you transfer data to that!?

obviously SATA 3

[DildorTheDecent]

obviously SATA 3

IDE all the way.

[rashdanml]

The fun fact is that since it's MC the drive is going to be made of logic gates... so it kinda turns it into a flash drive, SSD, or something like that...

This one actually uses a piston to turn each block on or off, so that part is mechanical. Besides, the seek time is several minutes. 

[eugenius]

challenge him to build an elastic suspension for it. gotta dampen vibration somehow ...

[Murdoch]

wow, I didn't know that was possible, how do you transfer data to that!?

 

You manually enter it ofc

 

 

Because of the difficulty in transferring a file from your hard drive in the game world of Minecraft, you’d actually have to manually enter each byte of data into the drive by hand. And the seek time—the amount of time it takes to find the data that you want to retrieve from the disk—is between six and seven minutes.

[aidenrelkoff]

IDE all the way.

IDE YOU SAY?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHAT IS THIS 2020?!?!?! NO!

 

FLOPPY DRIVES ALL THEY WAY... WITH COMADOR64'S

[RexinOridle]

Now someone build a SSD

[WelshDdraig]

Saving data within data . . . dataception. It'd be interesting if they could build a working PC, and one that emulates minecraft.

People in the past have actually created working computers in Minecraft. They only did basic functions like calculations, but it has been done before.

[WereCat]

I want to see Folding at home trough Minecraft made PC.

[Trik'Stari]

I'd like to see someone build a computer in minecraft, capable of running minecraft. MINECRAFTCEPTION!

[rashdanml]

I'd like to see someone build a computer in minecraft, capable of running minecraft. MINECRAFTCEPTION!

 

And before that:

[Trik'Stari]

-snip

Aren't those mods though?

[harrynowl]

this make me want to play minecraft again

[rashdanml]

Aren't those mods though?

Nope, built entirely in Minecraft. Some of the components/blocks used may be from mods though (not sure), before they were officially added to MC. 

[allindaze]

This is the first part of a planned 16-bit computer that will run entirely in minecraft. That computer will be "Hack" compatible, which is to say that it'll run code meant for the Hack machine described in The Elements of Computing Systems (a fantastic book that you should look up if you are at all interested in how computers work. Its website is http://www.idc.ac.il/tecs ).