This series has inspired me to take an interest in computer science inside and outside of Minecraft, I’m actually taking java in school this year and the knowledge I’ve gained about binary and processing systems has really helped me get ahead of the others in my class, at least for the fundamentals unit. Thank you for inspiring others and making quality content about redstone engineering!
This has been such a helpful series, and my redstone knowledge has greatly improved thanks to you. You are a great teacher and my favourite redstone RUclipsr, thank you
What fascinates me about your videos is how many different real-life topics it touches while being 100% about redstone. Most of the time it's digital electronics (since it is logical redstone), but the buffered display (10:47) reminded me of technique in computer graphics called double buffering - it's used for mitigating screen tearing when framerate of a program/game doesn't match refreshrate of the monitor. It works by using two buffers (arrays of pixels), one is displayed and the other is written to. Rendering always happens only on one of the buffers, while second one is read-only, meaning monitor can't show unfinished frame, and when rendering of a frame is done, you switch them, and now you write to the other one instead and one you written to is displayed and read-only. This is also combined with vsync to synchronize the switching of buffers with monitor cycle so that you don't switch them while monitor is actively reading from it (that can cause tearing as well).
I'm in a digital logic class in uni, and I'm currently working on an assignment involving BCD conversion for a 7-segment display. I didn't think that a Minecraft video would be helpful in understanding decoders, but here we are! It's really cool that I'm able to learn this stuff better using Minecraft!
@mattbatwings a couple years ago i was the guy who gave you the idea for the TI-MC name. I remember how excited i was when u actually used the name lol. Good to see you’re still going strong, man!
I made a 16 color (each color of concrete dust), 1x1 block-per-pixel display a while back (can't remember for sure if it was 12x12 or 16x16 pixels). It's based around "cassettes" of different-color concrete dust, shifted around by pistons: there's one cassette per pixel, and when a "draw" signal is sent, each cassette pushes its selected color along a path to the main display. It was a lot of work (took the majority of the build) to find a unique path for each block to its designated location on the screen, and to sequence them such that each pixel-column was ordered correctly (it isn't a very good display if each column of pixels could land in any order). Now, it may not have been the fastest (it took a few minutes to draw, and it was a lot of work to input an image as well, you had to pull levers to represent the color of pixels in binary). It may not have been the most compact (if I remember correctly, I used up most of the available vertical space, only leaving a few blocks as margin). It may not have been the most elegant (I used slime blocks on pistons to bounce the pixels around, the whole thing was a noisy, wobbly mess of slime and concrete dust). But it worked! Thanks for listening to my TED talk!
The knowledge in this video is epic!!! Comparing this video to your older one, it's safe to say that the quality has changed drastically for the better. Love this series Matt and thankyou for making it :D (again :p)
Hear me out. Dispensers can place shulker boxes, which can be broken and collected with hoppers and pistons. So. Set up a very complex screen with dispensers, that have a certain color shulkerbox put in, and then placed, based on the code of the image you are trying to build. Then, once the image is made, have piston flying machines remove the image and make the next. It doesn't have to be quick, because of the new tick speed command. Turn that up REALLY high. ( Or use a mod like in the other render videos) repeat this for each frame of an image. 16 color video in Minecraft with Redstone. 😮
i was interested on learning about screens a while back, and i even tried to theorise my own designs, now even tho the leak of my interest for screens is no more, i still really liked to see this
Yes I've seen the mazuma's video on these displays, he said the same as you, brute force to make the display work, do each barrel has a different number of stackable items. Keep up the good work 👌
mna I have been loving your redstone videos, ive been building the display, along side the video, and just now making the plot button, and only just *now* getting the world download. stupid me was using the video + trial and error to make a matrix decoder! I succeeded))
22:29 That's probably why most binary editors use hex representation, because the raw 1s and 0s would be too hard to work with and hex is easy to do, each two hex places represent one byte of eight bits. 0b11111111→0xFF 0b10100101→0xA5
If you want to give yourself an unnecessarily complex challenge, try doing redstone without using any of the components that are most commonly banned on plots servers (MrBeast's build battle server is a great example of the exact one I'm talking about, because it's what inspired me to try this). The components in question are: Redstone dust, pistons of either kind, observers, hoppers, droppers and dispensers, rails of any kind, all entities except armor stands, and a few unrelated but still hindering changes, such as block updates not happening (like water flowing or gaining bubble columns). Because of these changes, you'll notice a few important details: 1) All transport, decoding, and encoding of data MUST involve repeaters and/or comparators, and 2) It is completely impossible to move redstone signals up or down. Everything must be built flat on the ground. (this actually would not have been a problem if we had water updates because of a very elaborate way I found to move signals up and down using armor stands, trapdoors, tripwires, and water.) As crazy as it may sound, I was actually able to build a decent bit of stuff with these restrictions. In the last day or so of the competition I was able to create a combination lock using comparators and item frames, and crazier YET, almost a YEAR after the competition I returned to the problem and built a MULTI-DIGIT SEVEN SEGMENT DISPLAY. It took numbers in as a decimal, passed it down the line until reaching the selected digit, saved it into memory for that digit, and then a counter increased to move to the next digit. All the digits had to face upwards instead of forwards, again due to the inability to move signals up or down, but it was a fully working display. As well as having the ability to input data, it also had a clear button which would empty the display and reset the counter to the first digit. Because of how I made it, the top top and right sides of it are still open, which ALSO means it is easy to extract the data from each digit and move it somewhere else, such as for example if you wished to create an adder circuit. I never bothered to go that far though.
Regarding color displays, another method is to use ghasts as pixels, ghasts in different light levels will have different colors. You can control the light level with redstone lamps. I made a proof of concept video: ruclips.net/video/T8Bq0en6mSA/видео.html it might even be possible to utilize z-fighting of the ghasts to create a color palette with hundred of thousands of colors to pick from, though this type of screen will be limited by shades of black-to-white and shades of black-to-beige.
How did you paste the diagonal display without replacing part of the first one with air? Is there a WorldEdit structure blank or special command for that?
There is another cooler redstone color display that i've seen used that uses gravity affected blocks such as conrete powder to create an image that can then automatically be recycled. this display has been pioneered and possibly created by a RUclipsr called Mr_Korwaldski. they have also created a some other redstone stuff that is also really cool.
9:59 I love how, out of context, turning a big chunk of lamps on is just... well, pretty lame. But, is it just me, or is knowing that this is a pixel display turning all pixels on at once considerably more exciting?
@mattbatwings Have you ever seen the video "9 Levels of Cooking Meat: Easy to Complex"? I feel if you made a video with this approach for your expertise it would make a very accessible and impressive video.
18:32 I made a design where the output of the binary decoder (wich is on by default if you don't select that line) has torches that encode the 7-seg signal wich makes my 7-segment display incredibly compact and tileable either vertically or horizontally. (this uses the fact that Minecraft Bedrock lets redstone signals pass up and down with glass towers.)
Thank You. Like actually, thank you. I was creating a PC, A real PC (software was already done) It‘ll have 115 apps, and 3 different pages, that you can scroll on. I just needed the display. Software was ez pz. Btw If I could, i whould show U, but I am playing on my Nintendo Switch. So sorry. Finally my friends dont make fun of me anymore, bc I‘m bad at redstone. (This was a secret project)
Still, the (Normal number) 7seg display is possible in very small and very easy. I cant find any english tutorial to it, so, you´ll have to build this one.
have you other good way to make binary to BCD, but without a "start" button? So it is always making the calculation. (i don't care if it is desynchronized, but the only one i saw, is very, very big.)
this is first one that i think its realy interesting, i watched all of the first season ones but they just semed more interesting that this season, but this one is cool
For my first project im making a TicTacToe game. Thanks so much, this really helped me with my display. Im on bedrock so I have to change some designs but the concept it still the same.
I don't think the light-engine in Minecraft is advanced enough to render varying light intensity behind stained glass in a nice way, unfortunately... Are there any blocks in Minecraft, which vary their light output based on redstone signals? (I'm a bit out of the loop on updates) Maybe in Minecraft RTX this could look really cool, but from what I've heard (haven't played non-Java edition myself) the redstone in Java is far superior.
This design 20:35 doesn't work on mine because the signal can't reach the comparator for the display so there's no lamp turning but when i tried putting repeater on the middle of the decoder it show diff to what i want , why is tha?
Redstone starts to actually make sense when someone explains what each section does
lol you've been watching too much of old Mumbo stuff
Lol I didn't expect this to become the top comment
@@kitty_cob rng be like
yep, it's in the beauty of abstraction
U
I don't understand the redstone.
This series has inspired me to take an interest in computer science inside and outside of Minecraft, I’m actually taking java in school this year and the knowledge I’ve gained about binary and processing systems has really helped me get ahead of the others in my class, at least for the fundamentals unit. Thank you for inspiring others and making quality content about redstone engineering!
Same
How is it going now?
@@caywo_ Pretty well, I got a 4 on the AP exam so not bad lol
@@waffleman574 Nice (:
i wish i could learn what i wanted in school
This was truly an incredible Display of Redstone! ❤
Literally
Literally
Literally
WTF? All the NPCs in one coment
@@LordBrainzLiterally (hehe)
This has been such a helpful series, and my redstone knowledge has greatly improved thanks to you. You are a great teacher and my favourite redstone RUclipsr, thank you
What fascinates me about your videos is how many different real-life topics it touches while being 100% about redstone. Most of the time it's digital electronics (since it is logical redstone), but the buffered display (10:47) reminded me of technique in computer graphics called double buffering - it's used for mitigating screen tearing when framerate of a program/game doesn't match refreshrate of the monitor. It works by using two buffers (arrays of pixels), one is displayed and the other is written to. Rendering always happens only on one of the buffers, while second one is read-only, meaning monitor can't show unfinished frame, and when rendering of a frame is done, you switch them, and now you write to the other one instead and one you written to is displayed and read-only. This is also combined with vsync to synchronize the switching of buffers with monitor cycle so that you don't switch them while monitor is actively reading from it (that can cause tearing as well).
You could be a teacher, you're so good at this
I realy hope he becomes a teacher.
I'm in a digital logic class in uni, and I'm currently working on an assignment involving BCD conversion for a 7-segment display. I didn't think that a Minecraft video would be helpful in understanding decoders, but here we are! It's really cool that I'm able to learn this stuff better using Minecraft!
I'm going to rewatch this all over again, so much useful information I can learn, thanks for making this series
@mattbatwings a couple years ago i was the guy who gave you the idea for the TI-MC name. I remember how excited i was when u actually used the name lol. Good to see you’re still going strong, man!
Matt is truly a redstone god
mumbo jumbo vs. matt?
That‘d be a crazy video
@@Spikes_life Doesn't really make sense. Mumbo Jumbo is a traditional and piston redstoner. Matt is a computational redstoner.
I made a 16 color (each color of concrete dust), 1x1 block-per-pixel display a while back (can't remember for sure if it was 12x12 or 16x16 pixels).
It's based around "cassettes" of different-color concrete dust, shifted around by pistons: there's one cassette per pixel, and when a "draw" signal is sent, each cassette pushes its selected color along a path to the main display.
It was a lot of work (took the majority of the build) to find a unique path for each block to its designated location on the screen, and to sequence them such that each pixel-column was ordered correctly (it isn't a very good display if each column of pixels could land in any order).
Now, it may not have been the fastest (it took a few minutes to draw, and it was a lot of work to input an image as well, you had to pull levers to represent the color of pixels in binary).
It may not have been the most compact (if I remember correctly, I used up most of the available vertical space, only leaving a few blocks as margin).
It may not have been the most elegant (I used slime blocks on pistons to bounce the pixels around, the whole thing was a noisy, wobbly mess of slime and concrete dust).
But it worked! Thanks for listening to my TED talk!
15:28: one important bit of info you left out is that when there is no majority it will pick the north west corner as the color of the pixel
Wait that last set of displays was crazy, where can I see a “making of” video?
mattbatwings, your redstone tutorials are helping me so much. Thank you for this video.
Great video on redstone displays and I very much appreciate the Hex Gang shoutout :D
It’s always a great day when mattbat uploads
The knowledge in this video is epic!!! Comparing this video to your older one, it's safe to say that the quality has changed drastically for the better. Love this series Matt and thankyou for making it :D (again :p)
thanks for including my rom matt :)
I love how much effort you put into your videos ❤
This video was super helpful for my display, I am excited to see what you make happen with all of this!
Thank you sir it will be helpful for sure , enjoy the show everyone
Как всегда, невероятно и поистенне великолепно!
Instant watch
With no more thoughts. I see mattbatwings, i click
Hear me out. Dispensers can place shulker boxes, which can be broken and collected with hoppers and pistons. So. Set up a very complex screen with dispensers, that have a certain color shulkerbox put in, and then placed, based on the code of the image you are trying to build. Then, once the image is made, have piston flying machines remove the image and make the next. It doesn't have to be quick, because of the new tick speed command. Turn that up REALLY high. ( Or use a mod like in the other render videos) repeat this for each frame of an image. 16 color video in Minecraft with Redstone. 😮
Dispenser is random
He really implemented double buffering in Minecraft, awesome tutorial
I may need to call out of work tomorrow, cuz this was SICK!
If you recorded a film in Polish, it would be a very nice gift for Christmas Eve
This guy is so nice and it’s crazy how he shares so much stuff so well
Redstone power level mechanic saves the whole department!
And great video, of course.
I don't think someone could explain it better than you!
I love this type of video, redstone is a type of esoteric language for me.
i was interested on learning about screens a while back, and i even tried to theorise my own designs,
now even tho the leak of my interest for screens is no more, i still really liked to see this
Yes I've seen the mazuma's video on these displays, he said the same as you, brute force to make the display work, do each barrel has a different number of stackable items.
Keep up the good work 👌
Now you need to make this video again with the copper bulb😢
Why he use them
@@MuhammadWaseem-jt9rm copper lamp is a tiny t-flipflop.
I don't really play Minecraft much but I still binge watch this series.
I like redstone displays :-] Nice video!
thanks :D
@@mattbatwingsMatbat please reply how can I control this matrix decoder from d pad with only 4 buttons
@@mattbatwings If you make any video on this concept then let me know.
Best redstone teacher on RUclips!
Thank you Matt, you are a huge help on my journey through computer science!
The last face expression was how I felt when I finally realised what was going on
Knarfy thinks you’re a geologist.
Aye
mna I have been loving your redstone videos, ive been building the display, along side the video, and just now making the plot button, and only just *now* getting the world download. stupid me was using the video + trial and error to make a matrix decoder! I succeeded))
i think this is your best one yet
Knarfy thinks you’re a geologist
Geologist confirmed
map display mentioned!!!!
_𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭_
CRAFTY MASTER MAN
@goop9086
0 seconds ago
CRAFTY MASTER MAN
could you please send the link to image rom i cant find the video
Very clever. Love your videos, really, it's so well build ! From France
Slt
i like how minecraft is just casually offering a simulation of what it would’ve been like to be a hardware engineer from the 80s
So good pls keep uploading
Basically, redstone is a weird thing that we found interesting then we anticipated all of his actions to use them
Knarfy thinks you are a geologist
ayy rty got recognized!!
I was literally just wondering how to do it, and this popped up😂😂
22:29 That's probably why most binary editors use hex representation, because the raw 1s and 0s would be too hard to work with and hex is easy to do, each two hex places represent one byte of eight bits.
0b11111111→0xFF
0b10100101→0xA5
I used this along time ago when LRR #6 was released
I have a challenge for you. Mastermind in minecraft without command blocks fully automated.
Can't wait to see.
in data latch displays section you can use piston+redstone block to reset
i cant wait for the last video of this playlist!
Knarfy thinks you are a geologist btw I love your videos
Hey Matt I credited your video in another vid where i made a 64 bit serial binary to bcd converter it's pretty epic.
It's a fair amount more complex and slower, but there's another type of color displays, without modifications like resource packs: Concrete Powder
If you want to give yourself an unnecessarily complex challenge, try doing redstone without using any of the components that are most commonly banned on plots servers (MrBeast's build battle server is a great example of the exact one I'm talking about, because it's what inspired me to try this). The components in question are:
Redstone dust,
pistons of either kind,
observers,
hoppers,
droppers and dispensers,
rails of any kind,
all entities except armor stands,
and a few unrelated but still hindering changes, such as block updates not happening (like water flowing or gaining bubble columns).
Because of these changes, you'll notice a few important details:
1) All transport, decoding, and encoding of data MUST involve repeaters and/or comparators, and
2) It is completely impossible to move redstone signals up or down. Everything must be built flat on the ground. (this actually would not have been a problem if we had water updates because of a very elaborate way I found to move signals up and down using armor stands, trapdoors, tripwires, and water.)
As crazy as it may sound, I was actually able to build a decent bit of stuff with these restrictions. In the last day or so of the competition I was able to create a combination lock using comparators and item frames, and crazier YET, almost a YEAR after the competition I returned to the problem and built a MULTI-DIGIT SEVEN SEGMENT DISPLAY. It took numbers in as a decimal, passed it down the line until reaching the selected digit, saved it into memory for that digit, and then a counter increased to move to the next digit. All the digits had to face upwards instead of forwards, again due to the inability to move signals up or down, but it was a fully working display. As well as having the ability to input data, it also had a clear button which would empty the display and reset the counter to the first digit. Because of how I made it, the top top and right sides of it are still open, which ALSO means it is easy to extract the data from each digit and move it somewhere else, such as for example if you wished to create an adder circuit. I never bothered to go that far though.
Finally! I waited for so long for this to be posted! Thank you matt
I made an display of 16x16 redstone lamps, pretty cool
Such an amazing explanation
now you can also use copper lamps that work a little differently than the normal redstone lamps
Regarding color displays, another method is to use ghasts as pixels, ghasts in different light levels will have different colors. You can control the light level with redstone lamps. I made a proof of concept video: ruclips.net/video/T8Bq0en6mSA/видео.html it might even be possible to utilize z-fighting of the ghasts to create a color palette with hundred of thousands of colors to pick from, though this type of screen will be limited by shades of black-to-white and shades of black-to-beige.
can you let us see how do you put the sr latch near each other to connect the reset button so that it resets all the latches like you did?thanks
How did you paste the diagonal display without replacing part of the first one with air? Is there a WorldEdit structure blank or special command for that?
The -a flag.
//paste -a
@@mattbatwings
Thanks a lot!
Took him long enough. Just kidding, much love to you and thank you for all the amazing videos.
Other than that this series is incredibly good
There is another cooler redstone color display that i've seen used that uses gravity affected blocks such as conrete powder to create an image that can then automatically be recycled. this display has been pioneered and possibly created by a RUclipsr called Mr_Korwaldski. they have also created a some other redstone stuff that is also really cool.
cant we just appreciate all his efforts?
1x1 density is now easily achievable with copper bulbs.
You just need an extra buffer to remember the block state.
15:28 You can also use different colours and then one specific block will always be the one that specifies the colour
the north west corner when there is no majority
9:59 I love how, out of context, turning a big chunk of lamps on is just... well, pretty lame. But, is it just me, or is knowing that this is a pixel display turning all pixels on at once considerably more exciting?
@mattbatwings Have you ever seen the video "9 Levels of Cooking Meat: Easy to Complex"?
I feel if you made a video with this approach for your expertise it would make a very accessible and impressive video.
the redstone that saved the sharty
I feel like you could almost make a colour display with dispensers and coloured shulker boxes
18:32 I made a design where the output of the binary decoder (wich is on by default if you don't select that line) has torches that encode the 7-seg signal wich makes my 7-segment display incredibly compact and tileable either vertically or horizontally. (this uses the fact that Minecraft Bedrock lets redstone signals pass up and down with glass towers.)
Knarfy thinks that you're a geologist
Thank You.
Like actually, thank you.
I was creating a PC, A real PC (software was already done)
It‘ll have 115 apps, and 3 different pages, that you can scroll on.
I just needed the display. Software was ez pz.
Btw If I could, i whould show U, but I am playing on my Nintendo Switch.
So sorry.
Finally my friends dont make fun of me anymore, bc I‘m bad at redstone. (This was a secret project)
all games are just tetris + Tic Tac toe (1v1) + Tic Tac toe (1vBot) + Pacman, different lvls
3:08 instead of the suprised face I hijacked the other 2 signals to show a laughing face when combined
Still, the (Normal number) 7seg display is possible in very small and very easy. I cant find any english tutorial to it, so, you´ll have to build this one.
have you other good way to make binary to BCD, but without a "start" button? So it is always making the calculation. (i don't care if it is desynchronized, but the only one i saw, is very, very big.)
I remember when you had like 8k subs and I subbed
Truly a redstone god
Good job with the tutorial.. Is there a seperate one that shows you how to make the " IMAGE ROM "?
Amazing
this is first one that i think its realy interesting, i watched all of the first season ones but they just semed more interesting that this season, but this one is cool
Nice mate, truly a legend ❤
Love the vid
Awesome series
Keep up the great work! I do hope that you tell me how to make a BCD to Binary machine with the new CCA!
THIS IS SO COOL
The music at the end 😳
The copper bulb will change everything, u should consider using it :)
Like in a new vid for this series
For my first project im making a TicTacToe game. Thanks so much, this really helped me with my display. Im on bedrock so I have to change some designs but the concept it still the same.
you could also use 3x3 like regular computers
each column for rgb respectively using stained glass
I don't think the light-engine in Minecraft is advanced enough to render varying light intensity behind stained glass in a nice way, unfortunately...
Are there any blocks in Minecraft, which vary their light output based on redstone signals? (I'm a bit out of the loop on updates)
Maybe in Minecraft RTX this could look really cool, but from what I've heard (haven't played non-Java edition myself) the redstone in Java is far superior.
knarfy thinks your a geolagist
Ahh yes. GeolAgist, best job
And don't forget! Although the series may be ending soon, there is always more to be learnt!
This design 20:35 doesn't work on mine because the signal can't reach the comparator for the display so there's no lamp turning but when i tried putting repeater on the middle of the decoder it show diff to what i want , why is tha?