3x3 or bigger Piston door with computercraft

[iMiernik]

Hey guys, as seen from above I want to try and build a big door anything that's 3x3 or bigger with computercraft, I can't find any tutorials on youtube or anything so I thought I would ask you all, I am using FTB unleashed in case you need to know. It is for a secret cave/base opening so just throw me some ideas or ways to build it please Many thanks.

 

[rhn]

Ehm theres 2 options really. You could just use the TiC Drawbridges and just supply it a redstone signals to them.
I completely forgot about the drawbridge so I actually did the whole piston/CC to make a 4x4 gate. It is rather large and a bit complex, but it was great fun. I'll try and see if I can make some screenshots of it and I will post the pastebin for the simple program if you want it.

EDIT: Actually its pretty impossible to take screnshots off in its present location. If you still want to see how it can be done, let me know and I will try and make a mockup of it somewhere easier to see.

 

[iMiernik]

Ehm theres 2 options really. You could just use the TiC Drawbridges and just supply it a redstone signals to them.
I completely forgot about the drawbridge so I actually did the whole piston/CC to make a 4x4 gate. It is rather large and a bit complex, but it was great fun. I'll try and see if I can make some screenshots of it and I will post the pastebin for the simple program if you want it.

EDIT: Actually its pretty impossible to take screnshots off in its present location. If you still want to see how it can be done, let me know and I will try and make a mockup of it somewhere easier to see.

That would be awesome if you did that for me. I actually forgot about the drawbridges, the more complex it is the funner it is

 

[Yusunoha]

when I read "computercraft" and "3x3 door" I immediatly thought of turtles moving up and down either breaking or placing blocks, to open or close the pathway.
but with pistons... I already have problems with making a 2x2 piston door

you could perhaps also use a forcefield mod like MFFS Calclavia's edition and you could use a computer interface to enter the password, though this is probably not what you're asking for so feel free to ignore this post if that is indeed the case

 

[rhn]

Ok the first 3 screenshots are set up to show you the different Colours(channels) of the Rednet cables:

The channels used are white, orange, magenta, lightblue, yellow and lime for the pistons and pink for the lever(activation of gate). Its the first 7 of the Colour API and also correspond to the first 7 you get when changing the colours on the cable.

The 2 working positions are:
Closed:

Open:

The program for the computer is:
http://pastebin.com/M79MRkLx
It is programmed to interact with the computers bottom, but you can change that if you like in the code.
Oh and all the pistons are Sticky Pistons.[DOUBLEPOST=1387046366][/DOUBLEPOST]Thought I would also post an example of where I used this. Was building another castle but kinda got bored after making the basic layout But it got a working gate

There is an 4 blocks high setup(just stack the mockup I posted) in both towers to open the 4x4 gate.
If you look carefully on the first picture, you will see that I was forced to hide the lime cable with a microblock cover. Couldn't really find another way.