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Bharat Press Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server Bharat Press While you can easily run a server on any computer (the program requires a server app to run in conjunction with a client “game” app), why not use your newly acquired Raspberry Pi ? I don't know! This Instructable essentially tells you how to make a … and more
Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server TechCrunch As we approach the doldrums of winter what could be more cheerful than hours of incessant Minecrafting with you and your loved ones? While you can easily run a server on any computer (the program requires a server app to run in conjunction with a …
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Liz: Andrew Mulholland is a first-year undergraduate student at Queen’s College Belfast, and the overall winner of 2014’s Talk Talk Digital Hero award. We’ve known him for a few years (he did work experience with us this summer – he created the Grandpa Scarer learning resource for us with Matt Timmons-Brown )
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Northern Ireland’s first Raspberry Jams
Martin O’Hanlon and David Whale will be familiar to many readers of this blog, whether from the excellent Raspberry Pi and Minecraft resources they’ve authored or from their work with schools, code clubs and Raspberry Jams. Now they’ve teamed up to write a fantastic new book, hot off the press this week. Adventures in Minecraft teaches young people to customise their Minecraft world with amazing structures and new gaming experiences, developing Python programming skills along the way.
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Adventures in Minecraft
Ferran Fabregas worked out a couple of months ago how to render .jpg images in the Minecraft world using Minecraft Pi Edition. Our logo seemed an obvious place to start.
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Rendering camera images in Minecraft in real time
No … we’re not adding a Start Menu or a paperclip assistant.
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Updates to Minecraft Documentation – and a Python 3 version is on the way!
Eagle-eyed followers of all things Pi will have noticed that Craig Richardson , Minecraft savant (here’s his free book on teaching with Minecraft , which should be required reading for all teachers – and here are some recipe cards he’s produced to get your kids started) and all-round lovely chap, has been popping up a lot in photos of the office on Twitter recently. Craig’s been hanging out here a lot, not least because he started a full-time role with the education team here at Pi Towers yesterday
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Welcome Craig!
We think Craig Richardson’s brilliant. His Python Programming for Raspberry Pi book (available as a free download) remains one of the very best tools for stealthily teaching rigorous and useful computing concepts and programming tricks to kids that we’ve seen.
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Minecraft Pi recipe cards to download and keep
After a workshop last week, Clive, our Director of Educational Development, sent me the following in an email: A parent came up to me, and said: “I’m concerned that on Minecraft you can blow things up with TNT, it’s all about destruction, I’m worried about the effect on children…” If you ever want to make a six-foot-one Liverpudlian with a motorcycle cry, just repeat that sentence to him. Clive has been inconsolable for days.
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Using Minecraft: Raspberry Pi Edition to get kids computing