[CNLOHR]’S MICROSCOPE SLIDE LINUX AVR MINECRAFT… thing

We’ve been complying with [CNLohr]’s process of producing an AVR-powered microscope slide running Linux as well as interfacing redstone circuits in Minecraft to genuine world electronic for a while now, however we’re truly at a loss for words on exactly how it works. Well, now there’s a video explaining whatever you want to understand about this amazingly challenging and overwrought thing.

The gadget is powered by an AVR microcontroller as well as Ethernet controller running [Fabrice Bellard]’s JSLinux in a browser. [CNLohr] added a few bits to JSLinux enabling him map the x86 IO ports emulated inside JSLinux to the AVR’s IO ports. This enables him to inquiry the condition – both analog as well as digital – utilizing just a browser. extremely cool, however [CNLohr] can likewise run his Minecraft server optimized for 8-bit devices on this microscope slide server to produce a bridge between genuine electronics as well as redstone circuits.

To sum up what’s going on here, [Bellard] produced an x86 emulator in JavaScript, as well as put Linux on it. [CNLohr] is serving this from a microcontroller connected to a circuit developed on a microscope slide so he can blink an LED from within Minecraft. It’s the most beautifully over engineered and useless thing we’ve ever seen, basically.

In the video after the break, you can see [CNLohr]’s excessively convoluted walk through of what’s going on with this microscope slide server. As a bit bonus, you can likewise catch a glimpse of Hackaday at 00:20 in [CNLohr]’s most visited / new tab thingy in Firefox. We’re honored, really.