Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone(github.com) |
Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone(github.com) |
Now* we have an entire HDL.
I honestly stopped keeping track of things around 2012 so I am completely lost looking at modern redstone contraptions.
*8 years ago
->The repo says "Branch out from master and have fun!"
There were other great mods (I forgot the name, something that has to do with turtles?) and I remember implementing a shell in Lua, among other things.
But really RP vs Redstone is more like C vs Assembly. I've seen crazy things done in both but I think I find it a bit more impressive when people use pure Redstone to get things done. There are so many dimensions where you both need to understand the mechanics and where there are opportunities for optimization.
The turtle mod you are talking about is ComputerCraft.
Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25195802 - Nov 2020 (12 comments)
(Reposts are fine after a year or so! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Mumbo Jumbo recently got a lesson in, and made a video about, computational redstone. Some seriously impressive builds in there (like ms paint). One of the major design constraints is tick/lag. The recent addition of copper bulbs turned the t-flipflop into a single block solution
With all the additional redstone items/capabilities however I could imagine most circuits could be more and more compact..
All in all, really cool
(I wonder if it would convert cleanly to a redstone circuit...)
Describing a flip flop as a villager minecart with some number of NaN minecarts beside it seems challenging to pick when to use it vs a copper bulb.
Such a cool idea. Thank you.
Lame!(/s) I did this vanilla Minecraft(1.12?), including the display itself.
I had no idea RedPower is not a fork, I just remember having switched to it because of no updates for Redstone or version incompatibility issues or something? It's been a really long time ago.
You wouldn't be able to do any of that without feedack.
* Feedback causes memory-like effects (e.g. reverb and oscillation whine in audio systems).
* Besides maybe memresistors, memory is pretty much always implemented via positive feedback (i.e. >unity loop gain) plus some sort of saturation to prevent exponential growth (which you typically get for free in physical systems if you can keep them from exploding).
Furthermore, digital behavior is an emergent effect from analog physical systems that are designed to be bistable. Digital systems will always make use of analog physical processes "under the hood".