Explain
Redstone in Minecraft in terms of household electrics
Redstone is just household electrics installed by a toddler who has clearly been reading a manual written in ancient Sumerian.
Redstone dust is basically the spaghetti wiring behind your kitchen cupboard, but if you look at it the wrong way, the entire wall catches fire. You place the dust in a trail to act as a copper wire, connecting your lever - which is just a light switch that feels smug about its own existence - to a door or a piston. If your circuit is too long, the power dies, forcing you to install a repeater, which is essentially a junction box that refuses to work unless you reset it with the specific frustration levels of a man trying to fix a flickering hallway bulb on a Bank Holiday Monday.
The logic gates are where things get truly architectural. An OR gate is simply a light that works from either the landing or the hallway, whereas an AND gate is the needlessly complex system your dad installed that requires three separate switches to be flipped just to turn on the bathroom extractor fan. If you mess up the timing, you end up with a pulsating loop of noise that sounds like a washing machine full of loose coins. It is the only place where you can electrocute a virtual pig by accident just because you wanted to automate your front gate.
Where the analogy breaks downReal household wiring rarely lets you build a fully functional computer out of glowing red salt.