The Microsoft Kinect motion-sensing gaming system is probably one of the finer and sharper tools in comparison to the blunt, uncivilized clubs that are the PSMove and Wiimote. Actually no; I was kidding in a bid to start a console war on the comments thread of this post. In fact the Kinect is the most different piece of equipment in that it uses a infrared depth sensing camera (and some other technological wizardry) so that your movements in front of the camera translate into movements in the game.

Minecraft, on the other hand is E Lego, as my friend eloquently put it. You have blocks, lots and lots of blocks and you can build a lot of things from within the game world. The maximum surface area achievable on Minecraft is eight times that of the surface area of the Earth. People have been busy building a lot of absolutely gorgeous automated machines, gargantuan sculptures and horsing around with the source code to make ducks sound like they hate you.

That is all very cool but what have the hackers been up to? More importantly, what is the connection between the previous two paragraphs? The title puts it well, I believe. Nathan Viniconis, a retro cool Python programmer (retro cool was our addition) did something completely awesome. He took a Kinect and made it take a picture of him. He then made Python scripts to import a pixel version of the 3D image into Minecraft, resulting in some gloriously blown up sculptures of him and people/things around him.

Hit up his website (which is under severe pressure from RPS, Kotaku and Reddit) to get the code. Also, tell us if you actually implemented all that Python-fu!