12-14-2013, 05:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2013, 06:13 PM by seankingman.)
Hello,
Well it has been a year (as of today) since I joined the RDF/ORE community and I have so far had a brilliant time and made loads of new friends. Although I have been quite inactive for the past 6 months compared to the prior 6 months, I'm still thinking about the community, I was just very busy and needed a break. Now for the main point of this post, I have never made an in depth introduction before so here goes (I'll try to summarize):
I first found out about Minecraft back in July/August 2011 by a friend who recommended it to me (he in fact made me an account for it, the one I still use today). At first I wasn't that into it, playing the free in-browser one which I found quite boring. My friend then showed me his full version which even without any mods was a big improvement over the in-browser one. I downloaded a cracked version (I know!) and was very happy with it - I built my first cave and mine! I then started building airports (I loved them!) which looked cool - one of which had the control tower built into a cliff with the runway below. My first use of redstone was when I got my friend (I had no idea how it worked) to install runway lights; they were repeater based so had a nice delay that made them look as if they were moving.
I built a few more of these and by the new year I had found out about the true potential of redstone. I completed Minenewb's How to build a computer tutorial which gave me a 4-bit ALU and Hexadecimal 7 Segment Display to play with. I had a lot of fun with it but wanted more so I built Benny's tutorial computer. The adder actually worked on this one and so I had felt as if I had achieved something big when I could finally add 2 and 3 together and get 5 out! By the summer of 2012 I had built a couple of computers (all of which based on tutorials) and a Binary to BCD Decoder. Around the same time I had found out about this community which had servers dedicated to redstone and some of the most reputable redstoners around called the Redstone Development Foundation (At this point I should probably point out that I had bought Minecraft prior and so could go on servers). I always wanted to join but didn't know how to.
Some time during October/November I watched one of Benny's videos on what he had built on this RDF and I was immediately inspired. Over the next month I tried to apply for the RDF but with no success (Keep in mind at this time the RDF was going through a major restructuring of the website, etc. So that was why I couldn't apply). I finally decided to log in to the server and I was immediately greeted. I got in touch with guy1234567890 (still my favorite admin
) and because the website was down he instead just asked me some questions on my experience with redstone. After liking what I'd done he offered me a trial and on the night of Friday, 14th December 2012 I was in position on the trial plots ready to start. I built a 2 bit adder module outputting to a Bin - Dec Decoder and 7 Seg Display (although they were not part of the judging). Guy oversaw the trial and at the end I demonstrated it and he asked me questions on the logic involved, then voo-la I was part of the team! 
So there you have it for the first part.
Look forward to part 2 where I will talk about what I got up to on the RDF and then the ORE through to now, coming soon!
Well it has been a year (as of today) since I joined the RDF/ORE community and I have so far had a brilliant time and made loads of new friends. Although I have been quite inactive for the past 6 months compared to the prior 6 months, I'm still thinking about the community, I was just very busy and needed a break. Now for the main point of this post, I have never made an in depth introduction before so here goes (I'll try to summarize):
I first found out about Minecraft back in July/August 2011 by a friend who recommended it to me (he in fact made me an account for it, the one I still use today). At first I wasn't that into it, playing the free in-browser one which I found quite boring. My friend then showed me his full version which even without any mods was a big improvement over the in-browser one. I downloaded a cracked version (I know!) and was very happy with it - I built my first cave and mine! I then started building airports (I loved them!) which looked cool - one of which had the control tower built into a cliff with the runway below. My first use of redstone was when I got my friend (I had no idea how it worked) to install runway lights; they were repeater based so had a nice delay that made them look as if they were moving.
I built a few more of these and by the new year I had found out about the true potential of redstone. I completed Minenewb's How to build a computer tutorial which gave me a 4-bit ALU and Hexadecimal 7 Segment Display to play with. I had a lot of fun with it but wanted more so I built Benny's tutorial computer. The adder actually worked on this one and so I had felt as if I had achieved something big when I could finally add 2 and 3 together and get 5 out! By the summer of 2012 I had built a couple of computers (all of which based on tutorials) and a Binary to BCD Decoder. Around the same time I had found out about this community which had servers dedicated to redstone and some of the most reputable redstoners around called the Redstone Development Foundation (At this point I should probably point out that I had bought Minecraft prior and so could go on servers). I always wanted to join but didn't know how to.
Some time during October/November I watched one of Benny's videos on what he had built on this RDF and I was immediately inspired. Over the next month I tried to apply for the RDF but with no success (Keep in mind at this time the RDF was going through a major restructuring of the website, etc. So that was why I couldn't apply). I finally decided to log in to the server and I was immediately greeted. I got in touch with guy1234567890 (still my favorite admin
) and because the website was down he instead just asked me some questions on my experience with redstone. After liking what I'd done he offered me a trial and on the night of Friday, 14th December 2012 I was in position on the trial plots ready to start. I built a 2 bit adder module outputting to a Bin - Dec Decoder and 7 Seg Display (although they were not part of the judging). Guy oversaw the trial and at the end I demonstrated it and he asked me questions on the logic involved, then voo-la I was part of the team! So there you have it for the first part.
Look forward to part 2 where I will talk about what I got up to on the RDF and then the ORE through to now, coming soon!
. I think I've been a member since around February of 2011. It's been a longggg time.
