Running a Minecraft Server on a WiFi Light Bulb
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Running a Minecraft Server on a WiFi Light Bulb
WiFi-enabled ‘smart’ light bulbs are everywhere these days, and each one of them has a microcontroller inside that’s capable enough to run all sorts of interesting software. For example, [vimpo] decided to get one running a minimal Minecraft server.
The Bl602-equipped board inside the LED lightbulb. (Credit: vimpo, YouTube)
Inside the target bulb is a BL602 MCU by Bouffalo Lab, that features not only a radio supporting 2.4 GHz WiFi and BLE 5, but also a single-core RISC-V CPU that runs at 192 MHz and is equipped with 276 kB of RAM and 128 kB flash.This was plenty of space for the minimalist Minecraft server [vimpo] wrote several years ago. The project says it was designed for “machines with limited resources”, but you’ve still got to wonder if they ever thought it would end up running on a literal lightbulb at some point.
It should be noted, of course, that this is not the full Minecraft server, and it should only be used for smaller games like the demonstrated TNT run mini game.
Perhaps the next challenge will be to combine a large set of these light bulbs into a distributed computing cluster and run a full-fat Minecraft server? It seems like a waste to leave the BL602s and Espressif MCUs that are in these IoT devices condemned to a life of merely turning the lights on or off when we could have them do so much more.
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@nuintari thank you!
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@stefano Full disclaimer, and the rule sucks at making this point clear. My issues with Huawei predate their entrance to the phone market (and the existence of a smart phone market entirely), and the bulk of the backdoors claims. When they got started, they made their coin by cloning Cisco hardware and software. They had such perfect copies of Cisco's stuff, they were replicating hardware bugs. I dislike Huawei because that kind of behavior is unacceptable to me.
Now, the allegations of backdoors? I have no reason to believe they are not true, as it is right inline with the PRC's playbook. I've helped rip out a fair share of Huwei gear in the past few years, but I wasn't on the forensics side. So if a backdoor was active, I wasn't told about it.
And on the phone side of things. Android phones are already privacy violation machines, the OS is built for that bullshit. Adding a bit more? Hardly a challenge.
So no, just what I've heard.
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Aggiungerei che c'è una quantità di pubblicità ridicola (ovviamente esistono modi per evitarla per sé, ma rimane che poi la stessa pubblicità sarà presente per chi è meno scafatə. E la maggior parte dei video suggeriti hanno titolo e thumbnail clickbait
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Giovanni Lindo Ferretti ha rotto il cazzo. E anche Tiziano Ferro.
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@freezr no. Ma non ho sporcato le piastrelle. E con un colpo di spugna vengono perfette comunque.
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@mkj more or less 😂 it's surely a work of dust 😂
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