Microcraft: Running a Minecraft Server on 512 Bytes of RAM with W5500
A minimal Minecraft 1.12.2 server in C targeting MSP430G2553, using W5500 hardware TCP/IP to fit within 512 bytes of RAM.
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Hardware components
WIZnet - W5500
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Texas Instruments - MSP430 Microcontroller
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Project description
A Minecraft Server That Shouldn't Exist Microcraft is a deliberately absurd experiment: cramming a Minecraft server into a microcontroller with just 512 bytes of RAM. Created by Alfredo Savi, a computer engineering student at UTFPR in Brazil, the project implements a subset of the Minecraft Java Edition protocol (version 1.12.2, protocol 340) in pure C, targeting the MSP430G2553 — a 16-bit MCU that was, in the developer's own words: "jogado no fundo da minha gaveta" (thrown in the back of my drawer) The project isn't meant to be practical. It's a technical challenge that pushes the…
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