Real World Minecraft Lighting

Giving us a small glimpse into the connected device mashup explosion headed our way, Jim Rutherford and his 10 year old son decided to spend a weekend building a project enabling the day/night clock cycle in their Minecraft game to sync with their Phillips Hue smart light bulb for a little added survival mode atmosphere.

Using the Hue API Rutherford programmed the iPad companion app so that in "the daylight hours, the lights would be on and emitting out a nice daylight colour.  while the sun sets and rises, the lights would fade through a cycle of warm colours.  And of course when it was night time, the lights would be dark."



For more details you can read about their original project inspiration here, dig into the development app (available on GitHub here), or watch the project in action below.

Additional: Techcrunch, Geek, tuaw
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