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9. Customize Your Gameplay: Minecraft Hardware Programming

Stewart Watkiss

(1)Redditch, UK

Minecraft is a block-based construction game in which you can make buildings and other objects. It is a wildly popular game available for the PC, gaming consoles, and as the Minecraft Pocket edition for tablets and phones. It’s also available as a special Minecraft Pi edition, which is provided for free with the Raspberry Pi Raspbian image. Using the Raspberry Pi edition, you can communicate with Minecraft using Python, which means that you can interface with the electronics sensors and outputs that you have used.

This chapter will use the joystick controller ...

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