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 TH-camr, 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)
11:52 In the world download, this buffered display take two presses of the buffer screen button to turn off a pixel. Is their a way to fix this or should I just wire the button so that it presses twice automaticly?
this is good, i didnt really listen to the explanations but figured it out from just seeing it, Im not good at redstone at all but i understand how computers work a little bit, and that was enough for me to just build it
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
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. 😮
is there a way to set the texture pack to another trapdoor? i used a lot of quartz and trapdoors and crazy angle work and i cant have redstone lamps on the support pillars :( maybe like birch trapdoor? i use a fuck ton of spruce trapdoors dark oak pale iron and jungle so anything else would be perfect. in fact maybe the warped its too veiny for this world im going for a prim and proper minecrafty feel
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
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))
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?
I want to see Froglights used as the segments to a 7-seg display because it kind of looks like VFD panels' colors. It might need more work to obscure them when off (pistons) but it will look cool
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.)
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.
he is using binary to encode number 0-7, totaling to 8 possible values for each coordinate plane. the best way to think of it is imagine each lamp is numbered. the one at the bottom is numbered 1, the middle one 2, and the top one 4. this is because binary is base 2, so the number multiplies by 2 every time. let's say you wanted the number 5. you would activate the bottom lamp and the top lamp, because the top lamp equals 4, and the bottom lamp equals 1. you're just adding up the numbers each lamp is numbered by.
in short, the bottom lamp is worth 1, the middle is worth 2 and the top is worth 4. when you turn any on, you add up those numbers and that gives you your output value.
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?
15:15 just a note. Bedrocks maps works differently. 😬 & honestly, I feel for the better. It doesn’t care about color count. But rather, a %>50%_ filled on a particular y level. Technically for all maps 0/4-4/4
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 TH-camr called Mr_Korwaldski. they have also created a some other redstone stuff that is also really cool.
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: th-cam.com/video/T8Bq0en6mSA/w-d-xo.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.
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.
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.
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
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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)
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
More like the 50s
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 TH-camr, thank you
This guy is so nice and it’s crazy how he shares so much stuff so well
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 going to rewatch this all over again, so much useful information I can learn, thanks for making this series
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!
Matt is truly a redstone god
mumbo jumbo vs. matt?
That‘d be a crazy video
@@Di_Felix1 Doesn't really make sense. Mumbo Jumbo is a traditional and piston redstoner. Matt is a computational redstoner.
mattbatwings, your redstone tutorials are helping me so much. Thank you for this video.
@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!
Great video on redstone displays and I very much appreciate the Hex Gang shoutout :D
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!
map display mentioned!!!!
_𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭_
CRAFTY MASTER MAN
@goop9086
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CRAFTY MASTER MAN
could you please send the link to image rom i cant find the video
This video was super helpful for my display, I am excited to see what you make happen with all of this!
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)
I love how much effort you put into your videos ❤
Thank you sir it will be helpful for sure , enjoy the show everyone
thanks for including my rom matt :)
Instant watch
With no more thoughts. I see mattbatwings, i click
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
Как всегда, невероятно и поистенне великолепно!
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.
11:52 In the world download, this buffered display take two presses of the buffer screen button to turn off a pixel. Is their a way to fix this or should I just wire the button so that it presses twice automaticly?
He already had put data in the screen. It takes a button press to update a frame, but you had to create and then update it.
Wait that last set of displays was crazy, where can I see a “making of” video?
He really implemented double buffering in Minecraft, awesome tutorial
Best redstone teacher on TH-cam!
Knarfy thinks you’re a geologist.
Aye
I may need to call out of work tomorrow, cuz this was SICK!
Very clever. Love your videos, really, it's so well build ! From France
Slt
I don't really play Minecraft much but I still binge watch this series.
this is good, i didnt really listen to the explanations but figured it out from just seeing it, Im not good at redstone at all but i understand how computers work a little bit, and that was enough for me to just build it
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.
Thank you Matt, you are a huge help on my journey through computer science!
i think this is your best one yet
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
If you recorded a film in Polish, it would be a very nice gift for Christmas Eve
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
Took him long enough. Just kidding, much love to you and thank you for all the amazing videos.
is there a way to set the texture pack to another trapdoor? i used a lot of quartz and trapdoors and crazy angle work and i cant have redstone lamps on the support pillars :( maybe like birch trapdoor? i use a fuck ton of spruce trapdoors dark oak pale iron and jungle so anything else would be perfect. in fact maybe the warped its too veiny for this world im going for a prim and proper minecrafty feel
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
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 👌
14:14 "The only slightly weird thing about this is that the X coordinate is on the right side now."
Laughs in Minecraft Y coordinate.
3:08 instead of the suprised face I hijacked the other 2 signals to show a laughing face when combined
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))
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
Finally! I waited for so long for this to be posted! Thank you matt
So good pls keep uploading
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?
I want to see Froglights used as the segments to a 7-seg display because it kind of looks like VFD panels' colors. It might need more work to obscure them when off (pistons) but it will look cool
The last face expression was how I felt when I finally realised what was going on
Knarfy thinks you are a geologist
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
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.)
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 cant wait for the last video of this playlist!
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.
Knarfy thinks you are a geologist btw I love your videos
cant we just appreciate all his efforts?
Basically, redstone is a weird thing that we found interesting then we anticipated all of his actions to use them
now you can also use copper lamps that work a little differently than the normal redstone lamps
Knarfy thinks, you're a geologist lmao
in data latch displays section you can use piston+redstone block to reset
It's a fair amount more complex and slower, but there's another type of color displays, without modifications like resource packs: Concrete Powder
3:36 i need help bcs my screen is tall and the signal doesnt last till the end
Knarfy thinks that you're a geologist
4:36 How does the panel for the Matrix Decoder works? Why is that combination the equivalent of (4,5)?
he is using binary to encode number 0-7, totaling to 8 possible values for each coordinate plane.
the best way to think of it is imagine each lamp is numbered. the one at the bottom is numbered 1, the middle one 2, and the top one 4. this is because binary is base 2, so the number multiplies by 2 every time.
let's say you wanted the number 5. you would activate the bottom lamp and the top lamp, because the top lamp equals 4, and the bottom lamp equals 1. you're just adding up the numbers each lamp is numbered by.
in short, the bottom lamp is worth 1, the middle is worth 2 and the top is worth 4. when you turn any on, you add up those numbers and that gives you your output value.
Other than that this series is incredibly good
I was literally just wondering how to do it, and this popped up😂😂
Question: at 15:08, since there's no majority what would the map display?
the block in the north west corner
@@MinerBatah, thx
Such an amazing explanation
I remember when you had like 8k subs and I subbed
Nice mate, truly a legend ❤
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?
Please help how do I build the target block one at the start by rt
Im gonna use this knowledge to try build a calculator to show to my computer science teacher, thanks haha
3:58 imo the first one is SO MUCH better, it's faster and is less long so yeah
3:05 This would work so good for a virtual pet
Hey Matt I credited your video in another vid where i made a 64 bit serial binary to bcd converter it's pretty epic.
15:15 just a note. Bedrocks maps works differently. 😬 & honestly, I feel for the better.
It doesn’t care about color count. But rather, a %>50%_ filled on a particular y level. Technically for all maps 0/4-4/4
I have a challenge for you. Mastermind in minecraft without command blocks fully automated.
Can't wait to see.
How do I build the Data Latch? 7:16
19:12 why are there repeaters on the decoder.
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!
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 TH-camr called Mr_Korwaldski. they have also created a some other redstone stuff that is also really cool.
Truly a redstone god
can you make a tutorial on how you made the matrix decoder?
Keep up the great work! I do hope that you tell me how to make a BCD to Binary machine with the new CCA!
i was here after one minute. it had 8 views and 22 likes... Even TH-cam likes your videos
I used this along time ago when LRR #6 was released
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: th-cam.com/video/T8Bq0en6mSA/w-d-xo.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.
ayy rty got recognized!!
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.
I made a compact design for an SR latch and it uses target blocks
The Dimensions are 2x3x1
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.