An educational Minecraft project.

1. WeatherCraft
an educational minecraft
project

2. Weathercraft is an Arduino Weather Station
that communicates with Minecraft
in order to recreate real weather conditions
into Minecraft.

3. what is
Minecraft?

4. Minecraft is a sandbox game about
breaking and placing blocks.
creativity
adventure
exploration
simplicity
freedom
revolutionary

5. Minecraft is Turing-Complete and is
a great tool for learning logic

6. Minecraft is a great tool for
education purposes:
■ fun
■ interactive
■ kids love it.
Developers know this and
developed an education-focused
version of the game.

7. Our goal is to educate young
people to adopt
good energy habits
by let them play Minecraft
with real life weather
conditions and climate
changes in game based on
their good/bad energy
behaviour.

8. and now,
technical
details.

9. Arduino
UNO
rain drop
sensor
Current
meteo datas
Minecraft
Server
system
overview.

10. The well being of a plant in real
life can influence the growth of
a virtual plant in Minecraft.
+ +

11. A Minecraft
mod is made
by the addition
of custom
classes to the
original code.
raining!

12. This is an example of a class that
adds a custom block to Minecraft.

13. Challenges!

14. wasteland
or
flourishing

15. build a
treehouse!

16. Procedurally generated tree

17. A world of possibilities!
Sara Di Bartolomeo - dibartolomeo.sara@gmail.com
Lorenzo Travagliati - lorenzo.travagliati@gmail.com