[dkhar]

I have a friend who used to keep excitedly showing me his crazy, impressive redstone ALU/CPU designs. I kept trying to get him to buy an FPGA and build out something with real hardware, but he maintained that a big part of why it was fun was because of the environment and community that came with Minecraft. That might go some way toward providing an explanation.

[unwind]

So, did anyone do a Minecraft-to-VHDL transpiler yet? :) Sneak up on them and convert their in-game creations to something that can be synthesized into actual hardware.

[sly010]

Or the other way around, so we (boring people) can synthesise fully working Minecraft worlds from VHDL ;)

[angersock]

We can finally build a Minecraft-Implementation of Processing Sequences!

[unwiredben]

Ben Heck did a couple of shows where he made real-life redstone blocks out of electronic components:

http://www.element14.com/community/community/experts/benheck...

http://www.element14.com/community/community/experts/benheck...