It helped me greatly. Even just learning how to build an SR-NOR latch for a redstone-operated door was awesome. I planned to try building a calculator, or even doing nand2tetris, but I don't have the time.
Arduino and Launchpad helped me too. I expect to see custom Minecraft maps made of a small microprocessor -- with some way of loading the same code on both the game's microprocessor and the real-world microprocessor, and watching the code function both ingame and in the real world simultaneously. Serial logging could even be used to maintain concurrency between the microprocessors.
Arduino and Launchpad helped me too. I expect to see custom Minecraft maps made of a small microprocessor -- with some way of loading the same code on both the game's microprocessor and the real-world microprocessor, and watching the code function both ingame and in the real world simultaneously. Serial logging could even be used to maintain concurrency between the microprocessors.