Speed Cube

IT'S A WRAP!
IT LASTED 24 HOURS
1000 + TWEETS
912 BLOCKS PLACED
AVERAGE 38 BLOCKS AN HOUR
REMOVE SLEEP TIME, 12 - 8
57 BLOCKS AN HOUR!

Final Block Placed by @StockportDojo

Last 2 Hours gets good around 1:45

What is it?

How long would it take collectively for Twitter users across the world to build a
10 x 10 x 10 sized cube of TNT in the Minecraft world? A day, a week, a year? This is the questions that I have set out to solve. The project is very simple, Twitter users reply to me or send me a keyword for example @dan_aldred test. This is picked up by through the Raspberry Pi via Python and Tweepy and then checked for the keyword. If the keyword is used then the code places a block of TNT at a random co-ordinate of one of the 1000 block locations of the overall cube.

1 tweet = one block
1000 tweets = 1000 blocks = the complete cube

(It may require more than 1000, some blocks may be placed in the same location .)

Working Concept Model

Testing

On Tuesday August the 19th 2014 the speed cube test was successful, overall nine members of Twitter replied with the keyword which triggered the Python code to lay a block on TNT within a random set of co-ordinates, 5 x 5 x 5 a total of 125 blocks of TNT. The test was streamed live and all 49 minutes are watchable below! (If you really want to)