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Yes, it runs Minecraft: Hacker turns cheap Wi-Fi light bulb into functional game server

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A hacker successfully transformed a cheap Wi-Fi light bulb from AliExpress into a working Minecraft game server by extracting its BL602 microcontroller, which runs at just 192 MHz with 276 KB of RAM. Using a stripped-down server called Ucraft that requires only 46K bytes and minimal memory, the project demonstrates Minecraft's growing popularity for unusual hardware installations.

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