AE2 automation question and an existing sorting system

[Benie76]

Pack: Direwolf20 1.3.1

Ok. I don't know how best to title this to be as descriptive as possible.
What I want to do, I have no idea how. The way I got my base currently wired is started basing with an Ender Chest/Pouch for main storage and automated Ore/Wood/Farming stuff smelting and cooking, then into the AE2 system.

Cotton(from my Auto-Farm via EnderIO), Dirt(mining) and Cobble(mining), go past the buffer chest I have setup to get stuff into the AE2 network. I have to use an Advanced Item Filter for a Blacklist to ban the three from entering the chest. They go in barrels instead. This is part of my old, existing sorting system that uses EnderIO conduits.

I want to be able to do the following;

"I want a piece of Cobble!"
-Pulls piece of Cobble from Barrel
"I want the Cobble to become Sand!"
-Cobble goes into Pulverizer and becomes Sand
This is where it would get tricky...
"I want the Sand to become Glass!"
-Cobble goes into Redstone Furnace
"Actually, I wanted the Sand to become Silicon because I need it!"
-Sand goes back into Pulverizer to become Silicon

Would this be possible to pull from a barrel, have that Cobble become sand, and then based on what I ordered to be crafted, turn into Glass or Silicon, or would I need two Pulverizers?
And what exactly do I do to pull Cobble out? Like an ME Interface? Because technically, the three aren't part of the network.

 

[rhn]

I really think you should look up some AE2 tutorials/guides. There are plenty of them on youtube. There are so many basic mechanics you need to learn that I think that it would become too long to explain here. After you can come back and ask more detailed questions.

 

[Benie76]

Seriously, I would love to find an updated AE2 autocrafting spotlight from direwolf. But his last (and only) spotlight of it, is when AE2 was just released (months ago).
I'm tired of coming to my friend, hoping he has the knowledge to help me. Yet he's too busy with his own thing to really get into my Single Player world to assist.

 

[rhn]

Seriously, I would love to find an updated AE2 autocrafting spotlight from direwolf. But his last (and only) spotlight of it, is when AE2 was just released (months ago).
I'm tired of coming to my friend, hoping he has the knowledge to help me. Yet he's too busy with his own thing to really get into my Single Player world to assist.

Why does it absolutely have to be from DW?
Just did a quick search and this seems to be a fairly good guide(did not watch it all):

You probably want to watch the whole series.

 

[Baron_Falcon]

Pack: Direwolf20 1.3.1

Ok. I don't know how best to title this to be as descriptive as possible.
What I want to do, I have no idea how. The way I got my base currently wired is started basing with an Ender Chest/Pouch for main storage and automated Ore/Wood/Farming stuff smelting and cooking, then into the AE2 system.

Cotton(from my Auto-Farm via EnderIO), Dirt(mining) and Cobble(mining), go past the buffer chest I have setup to get stuff into the AE2 network. I have to use an Advanced Item Filter for a Blacklist to ban the three from entering the chest. They go in barrels instead. This is part of my old, existing sorting system that uses EnderIO conduits.

I want to be able to do the following;

"I want a piece of Cobble!"
-Pulls piece of Cobble from Barrel
"I want the Cobble to become Sand!"
-Cobble goes into Pulverizer and becomes Sand
This is where it would get tricky...
"I want the Sand to become Glass!"
-Cobble goes into Redstone Furnace
"Actually, I wanted the Sand to become Silicon because I need it!"
-Sand goes back into Pulverizer to become Silicon

Would this be possible to pull from a barrel, have that Cobble become sand, and then based on what I ordered to be crafted, turn into Glass or Silicon, or would I need two Pulverizers?
And what exactly do I do to pull Cobble out? Like an ME Interface? Because technically, the three aren't part of the network.

All of what you described is very easy to do using interfaces and busses and autocrafting. Yes you will want a dedicated crafting pulverizer and furnace, but they can each do several operations. However, you want to consider other operations being held up while another is being performed. Having several fully upgraded furnaces and pulverizers for autocrafting is not unusual.

 

[immibis]

AE2 doesn't quite work that way. It's more like this:

"I want a piece of Cobble!"
-Pulls piece of Cobble from Barrel
"I want a piece of Sand!"
-Pulls another piece of Cobble from Barrel, Cobble goes into Pulverizer and becomes Sand
"I want a piece of Glass!"
-Makes a piece of sand if there isn't one already, Sand goes into Redstone Furnace
"I want a piece of Silicon!"
-Makes a piece of sand if there isn't one already, Sand goes into Pulverizer to become Silicon.

You just tell the system what you want, the system figures out where to send the items by itself.

You don't need two pulverizers; you can have one pulverizer with two recipes set up.

To let the system use cobble out of a barrel, you want a ME Storage Bus - that lets the system take cobble from the barrel, and put cobble into the barrel. Alternatively, if you could use an ME Import Bus to suck all the cobble into the system, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.