Working calculator made in Little Big Planet, a PS3 sandbox game

Posted by Joel Johnson, October 9, 2008 6:26 AM | permalink

This is sort of intense: a beta tester for the soon-to-launch PlayStation 3 game Little Big Planet has created a working 8-bit calculator inside the physics-and-apparently-logic simulator. Because there are basic electronics simulations in LBP, the creator "Upsilandre" reminds that this is an electronic calculator, not simpply a mechanical one, using 610 magnetic switches, 500 Wires, 430 pistons, 70 emitters — all simulated in game.

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#1 posted by royaltrux

, October 9, 2008 6:39 AM

Holy Crap, that is seriously impressive.

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#2 posted by dculberson , October 9, 2008 7:08 AM

Awesome! Now he just needs to make it for real. ;-)

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#3 posted by chromal , October 9, 2008 7:33 AM

Wheels within wheels, or something. Very cool. Virtual tinkertoy calculator!

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#4 posted by shutz , October 9, 2008 7:35 AM

If we can get that out of the beta, what are we going to get out of the final game?

Make me an NES emulator, please.

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#5 posted by Bugs , October 9, 2008 7:56 AM

Pah, I remain unimpressed.

Call me when they've built an in-game computer that can run another copy of Little Big Planet.

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#6 posted by bardfinn , October 9, 2008 8:59 AM

I wish to see the calculations they used to compensate for mechanical (processor-speed) lash.

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#7 posted by Anonymous , October 9, 2008 9:03 AM

That is seriously impressive. He's just made ENIAC. Next stop,multiplication and division. I wonder if you can create NAND gates.

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#8 posted by bardfinn , October 9, 2008 10:24 AM

Bugs @5:

Given that someone's made a Turing-complete digital computer implementation in the Game of Life, I cannot help but be confident that it is merely a matter of time before someone makes a Turing-complete machine within this sandbox.

However, as always, any simulation involves a tradeoff of space, time, or accuracy - pick any two you like.

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#9 posted by eustace , October 9, 2008 10:49 PM

Will there soon be a LBP level that will run Doom?

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#10 posted by Aaron , October 10, 2008 11:03 AM

Wow.

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#11 posted by Agent 86 , October 10, 2008 6:27 PM

resistors, all the way down

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#12 posted by FutureNerd , October 13, 2008 8:57 PM