Bots are Cool
As a software developer, I enjoy most things technology-related. Lumped in that group are robots. It's always fun to see a piece of hardware in action, especially one you can program. And as an...
View ArticleLEGO Mindstorms and a Dead Robot
An old friend visited the other day. Like me, he has kids, and is interested in exposing them to toys that breed creativity, especially ones with a technological bent. In the course of talking about...
View ArticleLEGO Mindstorms and the Case for Free Software
Looking back at my broken LEGO Mindstorms creation made me realize how much work I put into that little jerk. Actually, he doesn't deserve to be called names. It's LEGO that deserves it. They're the...
View ArticleOn the Tragedy of Life Lessons
There are many things I want to teach my kids, including life lessons. Because I am a dad, this should not be surprising. As I go about my day, it is not unusual for me to think about these life...
View ArticleLife Lessons and Reminders
As part of the Life Lessons series, it's important to be reminded when those life lessons will be needed. To help with this problem, with the goal of not missing those critical periods in which each...
View ArticleMagic: the Gathering and Computer Automation
I am an avid Magic: The Gathering (MTG) player. A few days ago, a friend pointed me to an interesting article that combines MTG and math, and relatedly computers, which is what really interests me.The...
View ArticleGetting Your Computer to Make an Awesome New Magic the Gathering Deck
In my last post, I wrote about the Magic: The Gathering article over at Channel Fireball,Magic Math – A New Way to Determine an Aggregate Deck List: RG Dragons by Frank Karsten.Although I thought...
View ArticleWings, Horns, and Hooves, the Ultimate Unicorn Mod (for Minecraft)
My latest project has been to create a Minecraft mod using the handy Minecraft Forge mod toolkit and loader. I sort of started with a scattershot approach, making items, some new block types, and a new...
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The Unicorn Battle Royale
I needed to fix my mod (Wings, Horns, and Hooves, the Ultimate Unicorn Mod) to work on the Forge Standalone Server. I worked all that out last night, and to test it, I started up a Forge Server and...
View ArticleContest: Find the Ultimate Unicorns!
Are you a master breeder? Can you discover one of the mutant Ultimate Unicorn breeds? If you can, and can prove it, I'll give you not one, but two FREE decked-out custom unicorns! (As seen, here.) And...
View ArticleUltimate Unicorn Mod 1.1.1, now for 1.7.10!
Finished up and released version 1.1.1 of the Wings, Horns, and Hooves Ultimate Unicorn Mod early this morning.The big news is that the porting to 1.7.10 is done, so lots of people can use it with...
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State of the Ultimate Unicorn Contest
The "Find the Ultimate Unicorns" Contest continues, but there are only 2 secret horse breeds remaining to be found. People have found the following:The contest has ended, as all secret horses have been...
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Custom Horses
Since launch, we've had a few Custom Unicorns designed and included in the mod. You can see the entire list in the Hall of Fame.I thought it would be cool to show some in-game pictures of some of...
View ArticleDemo at GameStart!
Today I demoed the Ultimate Unicorn Mod at the GameStart game programming school in Ann Arbor. I've taken the kids to events GameStart has held in the past, and even enrolled my oldest in one of their...
View ArticleUnicorn News
Wings, Horns, and Hooves: The Ultimate Unicorn Mod passed 4000 downloads just the other day. It's been out for 1.5 months now, so I consider that a great start.In that time, we've included some great...
View ArticlePoll: Your Most Requested Feature
What new feature would you like to see most in the Ultimate Unicorn Mod? If you chose the "Something Else Entirely" option, let us know what you'd like to see in the comments!
View ArticleUpcoming Ultimate Unicorn Release
I'm planning to put out another release in the next week or less, this one with some features that I'm pretty excited about.In an earlier post, I mentioned how I thought the Ultimate Unicorn mod...
View ArticleTales of the Wooden Oracle: Clade and the Golden Lance - Part 1
And so it was proclaimed: On the 4th day of the 3rd month of the Year of the Napping Ocelot, King Adaron and Queen Elena would marry, and their two kingdoms join hands forevermore. News spread...
View ArticlePoll: What Should be the Next Horse Breed in the Ultimate Unicorn Mod?
What should be the next horse breed in the Ultimate Unicorn Mod?
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The Hippocamp!
This past Saturday, Hippocamps arrived for Minecraft 1.7.10 and 1.8 in the latest version of the Ultimate Unicorn Mod (1.2.5).This is what a hippocamp (or hippocampus) looks like:The hippocamp is a...
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