Clever applications for Computercraft turtles and computers?

[morphiussys]

Sword turtle behind Magic Pencil that is constantly swinging and damaging anyone who walks into my base. I'm just a little bit antisocial

I won't lie, I laughed a little too loud on thisone.

 

[Veggetossj]

I used turtles to break the Tainted Goo/Gas above pedestals which get created during Arcane Infusion from Thaumcraft

Wasnt really fast enough for loads of taint from crucibles.

Something like this: When detecting a block --> break it. Seems to work for the flux Goo/Gas although it should be a liquid i guess XD

 

[ljfa]

Terrain Smashers work just fine for that

 

[Veggetossj]

Not sure i had that on Monster?

 

[ljfa]

It's from Thermal Expansion.

 

[rhn]

Made a rather simple script to monitor energy storage devices such as TE Energy cells, display the values and output redstone signals once energy levels drops below certain limits(to start power production). Once the energy storage is once again filled up the redstone signal is disabled to stop the power production. No more mucking about with Redstone comparators!
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/thr...nd-guide-collection.42664/page-15#post-718973
Edit: Updated it a bit to make it more user friendly and more versatile.

 

[Veggetossj]

@Ifja does that require a redstone signal?

 

[ljfa]

Like every TE machine you can configure that.

 

[Veggetossj]

wich is proabably serverside, so that wasnt a option for me =p

 

[rhn]

wich is proabably serverside, so that wasnt a option for me =p

He mean you can configure the Terrain smashers redstone behaviour in its redstone tab(like any other TE machine pretty much). Just open its UI and click the redstone icon to the right to expand the tab and choose the behaviour you want.

 

[McJty]

I used OpenComputers but it can also be done with ComputerCraft but I once made a program to automatically monitor my BigReactor and change the height of the fuel rods to raise and lower energy production as needed. In addition it also showed a visual representation of the current energy status on screen.

 

[Ieldra]

I also wrote a program to monitor and fill up Essentia jars, similar to Direwolf's program.

I would like to see more about that. Do you have a link?

 

[malicious_bloke]

Targeting computer for a TNT cannon.

Combination of sleep timers and redstone face allocation and a bit of analogue redstone logic allows you to modulate the fuse timer on the TNT to be launched and/or which of a number of dispensers in differing positions you use, changing the range and trajectory of the projectiles.

 

[ljfa]

I would like to see more about that. Do you have a link?

The GUI is not quite finished yet, but everything else works. I was planning to publish it once finished, but here you go:
You need the main program and a file called aspect_colors.

It works for me with

• Minecraft 1.6.4
• Computercraft 1.63
• ThaumicTinkerer 2.3-140
• OpenPeripherals 0.4.1
• LogisticsPipes 0.7.4.dev.288

so you might be required to update some mods or change the program.

Just like Direwolf's version you connect a request logstics pipe, a monitor and all the jars (through proxies) to the computer via wired modems. You should not connect the request pipe directly to the furnace but instead use some kind of buffer.

 

[Evilshallwin]

I used a turtle to automate wand refilling when I'm out of my base. Basically, it uses an ender chest linked to an ender pouch, which I put the wand in. The turtle pulls out the wand and puts it in the recharge station. Every 2 minutes or so it checks if the wand has reached a certain threshold on each aspect (about 80% of capacity) and if it is, it spits it into the ender chest for 5 minutes, giving me ample time to pick it out of my ender chest whenever I need it (to capture nodes or as a weapon, whatever).

 

[Shabazza]

After I saw this video

I thought: "This has to be able with computers also".
So I wrote two different programs that use 5 computers to control rednet cables with all 16 colors.
1 computer is used as input to select the colors to activate and 4 are used for handling the colored rednet cable outputs. (4 each)
Advantage over rednet controllers is, the programs are portable. So you don't have to configure the whole thing every time you build such a control circuit.
If customized and used with a monitor as touchscreen (thanks @rhn ) it's a good way to control electical lights, redstone mechanisms or machines within the base.

 

[ratchet freak]

After I saw this video

I thought: "This has to be able with computers also".
So I wrote two different programs that use 5 computers to control rednet cables with all 16 colors.
1 computer is used as input to select the colors to activate and 4 are used for handling the colored rednet cable outputs. (4 each)
Advantage over rednet controllers is, the programs are portable. So you don't have to configure the whole thing every time you build such a control circuit.
If customized and used with a monitor as touchscreen (thanks @rhn ) it's a good way to control electical lights, redstone mechanisms or machines within the base.

can't you set bundled output directly on a computer? so you should only need 1 computer

 

[Shabazza]

can't you set bundled output directly on a computer? so you should only need 1 computer

Not in the most recent version of CC (1.63). Support for this is gone.
The problem is, that rednet cables now connect to a computer like it would be a normal redstone device.
They are now showing a color ring at the connection point, which means you can only activate the currently set color of that computers side.
But you can no longer control all colors directly with just one connection.

In the video, the guy uses logic gates of the rednet controller to multiplex the colors which are sent as analog redstone value to the first rednet controller.
And I did the same, but with computers.

 

[ljfa]

Is it intentional that it's gone or did MFR not update to the CC 1.63 API?

 

[rhn]

Not in the most recent version of CC (1.63). Support for this is gone.
The problem is, that rednet cables now connect to a computer like it would be a normal redstone device.
They are now showing a color ring at the connection point, which means you can only activate the currently set color of that computers side.
But you can no longer control all colors directly with just one connection.

Wow that sucks, have you tried with Project Red Bundled cables? Works just like good old RP2 Bundled Cables.