{"id":91,"date":"2015-06-29T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robotsummer.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-06-29T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:14:06","slug":"exploring-circuits-with-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robotsummer.com\/exploring-circuits-with-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Circuits With Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you know any builders who play Minecraft? Mine do. A lot… Honestly, one of the reasons we're spending the summer vacation building things is to get them doing more than just screen time. But that doesn't mean I have no appreciation for the cube-oriented game. In fact, I thought we could get our summer started off by trying to bridge their knowledge of Minecraft with some elementary circuitry.<\/p>\n
Alex said:
\nI know that Minecraft is very popular and that sometimes people can get a little addicted to games, but it\u2019s not bad to get away from all of the servers and mini games and get back to single player or working with friends to make something, working with redstone to try and figure out how it works and reacts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWe bought our 10 year old daughter an electronics learning lab kit (like this picture with link) that came with a couple of really good project books. I thought I'd challenge my Minecraft experts to duplicate the circuitry projects in the game as they built each on the electronics learning kit. The kit starts out with easy switch circuits, so they began by making the circuits on the first couple of pages on the electronics kit and then making their equivalent in Minecraft. I left the room to give them a chance to work through it on their own.\u00a0 They took their own pictures and screenshots\u00a0 and here's how they did.<\/p>\n