Pi 5 runs Minecraft on circular screen
A Raspberry Pi 5 project has Minecraft running on a circular display—an attention‑grabbing DIY that showcases hardware‑software creativity for maker‑style UI experiments. The build is being shared in the maker community as inspiration for compact, bespoke interfaces. (x.com)
A short clip circulating in maker feeds shows Minecraft running on a Raspberry Pi 5 driving a circular 720×720 panel, with the uploader captioning the clip “Running Minecraft on a raspberry pi 5 on a circle 720x720 screen.” (tiktok.com) The Raspberry Pi 5 ships with a Broadcom BCM2712 SoC that pairs a 2.4 GHz quad‑core Arm Cortex‑A76 CPU with an 800 MHz VideoCore VII GPU that supports OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2, hardware upgrades that materially improve lightweight 3D game performance versus the Pi 4. (pip.raspberrypi.com) Many hobbyist circular builds opt for HDMI round panels that report native 1080×1080 hardware resolutions—examples include Waveshare’s 5‑inch round IPS display and Pi Hut’s 5‑inch HDMI round touch display—while the clip in question appears to use a lower 720×720 panel as shown in the uploader’s description. (waveshare.com) (thepihut.com) (tiktok.com) Running rectangular desktop apps on circular screens typically requires software masking or compositor tricks because standard toolkits output rectangular framebuffers; community guides document approaches like cropping to a circular viewport, custom compositor layers, or purpose‑made UIs to avoid visible rectangular corners. (simpaul.com) (hackaday.com) Community tooling and repos for Pi‑based Minecraft workarounds exist: a GitHub guide details running Minecraft servers and launch scripts on Raspberry Pi 5 hardware, and the MCPI‑Revival community maintains updated forks of Minecraft: Pi Edition for Pi‑specific experimentation. (github.com) (mcpi-revival.github.io) Video demos and reviews from the Pi ecosystem show the Pi 5 handling Minecraft Java and other games in desktop Linux images, and separate short‑form clips of the circular Minecraft build have spread across platforms, indicating the project is part of broader maker experiments in bespoke UI form factors. (youtube.com) (tiktok.com)
