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Connect a computer to a request pipe and wrap it as a peripheral, have a look to available methods, you can control precisely how many items you have and then turn on/off your crafts.
As per Logistic Pipe's wiki, looks like it also transmit power (not clear if it is talking about energy tesseract or any tesseract for the pipe though):
http://rs485.thezorro266.com/w/Main_Page#Pipes: