Mineable Minecraft block – Hack a Day

A fun piece of augmented reality from Ben Purdy brings Minecraft to the real world with some clever projection kit.  Projecting classic 8-bit graphics onto a cardboard box you can then take a stick and mine away the projected block.

Block animation is handled by a piezo sensor, an Arduino and a Processing sketch. From earlier posts on [Ben's] blog, we’re going to guess that he used the keystone video projection library his own solution to map the Minecraft block onto the cardboard box. Animation is handled just as in Minecraft – overlaying the breaking animation onto the block and adding some particle effects.

real life minecraft block #1 from Ben Purdy on Vimeo.

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.