Redstone/Power Challenge #1

[Abdiel]

Ha, 3 gates. In error state door is always closed and spawners are always off - this agrees with the conditions in the OP.

 

[SReject]

Ha, 3 gates. In error state door is always closed and spawners are always off - this agrees with the conditions in the OP.

Aye, It does

End 1: Does a Computer count as a single logic gate?

Edit 2: Sooo, of those participating, are you enjoying it?

 

[Abdiel]

Soooo I just came up with a dirty bastard solution that fulfills all the OP conditions to the letter using only one gate (and flipping all the levers on the panel). Vanilla redstone is kinda awesome like that.

(I said before, if you're going for the least gates challenge, no computer for you! )

 

[SReject]

Soooo I just came up with a dirty bastard solution that fulfills all the OP conditions to the letter using only one gate (and flipping all the levers on the panel). Vanilla redstone is kinda awesome like that.

(I said before, if you're going for the least gates challenge, no computer for you! )

Now remember every vanilla torch(inverter) and repeater is considered a gate

 

[Abdiel]

No torches and no repeaters are used. I also got rid of the dirty trick, it's all legit and pretty now.

 

[SReject]

Is it sphax, or does the basic texture for Toggle Latches look like it has a "pass through"[DOUBLEPOST=1361115043][/DOUBLEPOST]You wouldn't be glow stone laddering would you... I might have to consider that as a gate aswell

 

[Abdiel]

That was the dirty trick (halfslab diode). As I said, I can do without.

 

[SReject]

Incase anyone is wondering where I got the idea for this challenge...

My Farm control panel:


The "lab" (Just a bunch of computer crafty stuffs):


The whole floating facility is smooth basalt and hardened glass. Ended up using Iron tank Gauges to run the redwire as it can't be placed on glass or it's variants. Had to use warded glass for the buttons and the transmitters because the tanks don't transport redstone signals, nor can you place curcuitry on them.

I use computer craft to control everything; which makes life easy. If anyone wants, after I get the script debugged(its got a few quirks) Ill post it

 

[Abdiel]

The whole floating facility is smooth basalt and hardened glass. Ended up using Iron tank Gauges to run the redwire as it can't be placed on glass or it's variants. Had to use warded glass for the buttons and the transmitters because the tanks don't transport redstone signals, nor can you place curcuitry on them.

Have you noticed any performance problems with the tank gauges? I used tank valves for decoration for a while, but we figured out they were causing severe CPU problems for the server by just being there. Our (me + server admin) theory is that the valve periodically checks whether it's a part of a tank all the time, wasting CPU cycles unnecessarily. (I don't know if CJ reads this forum to c/d, I'll send him a bug report if I manage to replicate it.)

 

[SReject]

I haven't noticed any lag with them. Though only the section you see in the pics is done with the guages.

 

[cynric]

As far as I know, blocks that are part of incomplete multiblock structures are getting checked regularly if they form a complete multiblock structure and thus require constant cpu cycles. So you should probably try to avoid those unless you are actually creating a complete tank (or coke oven/blast furnace/...).

 

[steelblueskies]

dude. just use bundled cable, and a computercraft computer. so many eons simpler