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The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 12-28-2013
I know, I know, I should only post here once, but hey, I figured I'd improve my old story of an Ice for newcomers and old members alike considering that I've now been here a year! I'm still a newborn baby compared to some of you grizzled veterans here, but hey... it's a milestone!
Rewind to 2011 when I first got minecraft. For literally 5 months I had a survival world called "Bed" (because I had vowed to sleep every night... idk...) where I had this massive, ugly, cobblestone thing that I lived in and expanded and expanded... rinse and repeat. Quite honestly, I was at that point beginning to regret spending my 27 dollars.
At the same time in real life, I had just gotten an electronics kit. One of those Snap Circuits things... no arduinos here
All the experiments were great, and I loved electronics from that point onward. However, a few of the experiments blew me away beyond the others: Simple AND Gate, Simple OR Gate, Simple NOT Gate, Simple NAND Gate. As you can guess, the enthusiasm for things like those never really went away, and they're still fresh here.And there you go! At that point I was also doing the FLL technic lego competition on one of my states, and the nation's, top 100 teams. This also got me into the technical side of stuff.
Alright, fast forward to ~March 2012 when I first discover redstone. I'd been opening doors with levers in my cobblestone thing for months, but suddenly I found this fun little red dust which could bring power from a lever over THERE, to a door over HERE! I think that moment was where I stopped regretting buying Minecraft. I looked up redstone on youtube, and what would I find but working computers! I looked a little bit closer, and all of it clicked together... the computers were made up of thousands of my precious AND gates and OR gates and NAND gates. Who would have known? Quite honestly, piston doors never really caught my attention, they seemed too simple and size-focused to me.
Three months later, I have my own computer based on Benny's tutorial with a few added touches (larger ALU, bin comparator, BUD RAM, etc.) (Also, if you're actually reading this, have a slice of cherry pie!) I spent so much time programming this thing... it was just amazing to be able to program on something that I had made. And all the while I was looking up towards the RDF as the carriers of all wisdom and greatness, and finally I submitted an application. I'd link it here, but prop recently took the forums down and it's gone forever ;-; It showcased the beginning of a third computer which would never be finished, a VERY primitive IS which would later become ice100, and whack-a-mole!
A few weeks into the RDF, I decide to start YouTube, and from then on out my identity in minecraft will always be IceAndMc. I posted a bunch of videos towards the start, mingling in piston doors and command blocks to try and appeal to the mainstream. When the RDF died, I became even more obsessed with my piston doors and ended up getting a comment from DicoTheRedstoner. I thought this was a shining moment... bleh.
And then ORE.
Then I'm back to logic! I start a bunch of projects that are doomed to fail and convert my channel to an ORE member's channel. My views and subs, ironically, start flying up and finally we get to the posting of my graphing calculator. I threw it on reddit... because why not, right? and magically I get 500 likes and 8000 views. I'm in utter shock, and finally that dies down leaving me with a new giant project that, hopefully, will be finished real soon!
This turned into something of a rant, hopefully you all don't mind. If you actually read all this, congratulations. You'll know what you get.
Out!
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - David - 12-28-2013
Very cool story and all, but let's get to business. Where is my slice of cherry pie?
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 12-29-2013
You actually read it... wow
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - AFtExploision - 12-29-2013
I need my pie too
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 12-29-2013
Well now it's ruined. Thanks a lot.
*folds arms and runs to corner
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - AFtExploision - 12-29-2013
PIE NOW
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 12-29-2013
*distributes pie, making sure to give Aft less
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Chibill - 12-30-2013
Yum pie! Nice ice
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - AFtExploision - 12-30-2013
I NEED MORE
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Malcolmforde - 01-01-2014
My first electronics kit was a snap circuits thing too
And the second think I have ever messed around with was a 555 timer.
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 01-02-2014
Gotta love dem snap circuits
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Chibill - 01-02-2014
ICE NICE FIND
EVERYONE JOIN ICE ON THE WAR AGINST BUGS
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - CobaltRisen - 03-11-2014
I have 3 snap circuit kits including the cool rover that shoots stuff
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 03-11-2014
Holy crap, it's this thread XP
Normally, this is the part where I prophesy an impending lock, but since this is my introduction... leave it open admins.
or i will find you.
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Goatflakes - 03-12-2014
Cool story bro
How's the lego technic going? I am too poor to buy it. I got plenty of lego as a kid but it was always space stuff cause I was obsessed with space travel. Although between you me and the fence post I secretly yearned for technic
We did get a huge bucket of second hand mechano and it was awesome but I was too stupid to build anything good with it I also had a radioshack 1001, with LEDs so feeble you would barely believe it nowadays. Probably they were made by hand lapping galena crystals or something
They were about as bright as the glowing ember from a match when the flame goes out 
The wires were put together using jumpers and springs. You would bend the springs over and put the wire in the gaps and let it go and it would hang onto it. The whole thing was made out of cardboard but it cost a fortune! Then as a curious 10 year old I decided to wire all the points I could together and power it and destroyed almost all of the ICs and other semiconductors in it
I have also made things that didn't work with a 555 Now in my dotage I have an Arduino and I even made a LCD weather station until someone stole back the wall wart I was running it with
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Dcentrics - 03-12-2014
(03-11-2014, 09:30 PM)Iceglade Wrote: Holy crap, it's this thread XP
Normally, this is the part where I prophesy an impending lock, but since this is my introduction... leave it open admins.
or i will find you.
WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARe
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 03-13-2014
(03-12-2014, 05:44 PM)Dcentrics(+Thatcrazygoat) Wrote:(03-11-2014, 09:30 PM)Iceglade Wrote: Holy crap, it's this thread XP
Normally, this is the part where I prophesy an impending lock, but since this is my introduction... leave it open admins.
or i will find you.
WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARe
Last I looked I was ice.
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - VirtualPineapple - 03-14-2014
NO, YOUR SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS HAS BEEN FORGED FROM THE EXISTENTIAL SHROUD OF DCENTRICS FOR WHICH COMPOSES YOUR SOUL AND BODY HOWEVER YOUR TRUE IDENTITY CANNOT AND SHALL NOT BE ICE TILL THE LUSTER OF DCENTRIC'S DOTH FADE FROM THIS SO CALLED REALITY THAT IS DOUBTFUL FOR THY MIND IS ALREADY MASKED IN DELUSION AND ANY MORE FAITH PUT IN PHENOMENON IS ABSURD TO ALL LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN COMPREHENDED
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Dcentrics - 03-14-2014
(03-14-2014, 06:32 AM)VirtualPineapple Wrote: NO, YOUR SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS HAS BEEN FORGED FROM THE EXISTENTIAL SHROUD OF DCENTRICS FOR WHICH COMPOSES YOUR SOUL AND BODY HOWEVER YOUR TRUE IDENTITY CANNOT AND SHALL NOT BE ICE TILL THE LUSTER OF DCENTRIC'S DOTH FADE FROM THIS SO CALLED REALITY THAT IS DOUBTFUL FOR THY MIND IS ALREADY MASKED IN DELUSION AND ANY MORE FAITH PUT IN PHENOMENON IS ABSURD TO ALL LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN COMPREHENDED
WHAT HE SAID
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Dcentrics - 03-15-2014
:3
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Dcentrics - 03-27-2014
Alright I agree i want to see this thrad bump3d.
RE: The New, Improved Story of an Ice - Iceglade - 03-27-2014
return new bump3d