Remote Item on Demand System V 2.0 Update

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-- [UPDATE] --
I"m finished with Version 2.0 of this system.
It now works much like an Amazon warehouse. It uses turtles like the warehouse robots that pick an item from the correct row, isle & tier in the warehouse and delivers the item to the shipping location (Ender chest)

The interface you use is a computercraft computer. Just start the computer up select an item from the the list and the turtle receives the commands and picks the item for you.

Here is video showing it off:

Hey everyone I just wanted to share an idea I had for a system to remotely send any item you request to your location.

I call it a -Remote Item on Demand System .

It uses Wireless Receivers, Transposers , Tubes, Ender Chest & a Wireless Remote
It also can be used with buttons attached to wireless transmitters.

If you were to use wireless security you could use it on a multiplayer server to hide your storage room in a secure location and only use an ender chest to securely request your valuables when needed.

Its a bit hard to explain in a post, but basicly it uses the wireless receiver to pulse a transposer to pull an item from a specific chest. You can select which item you want by changing the wireless frequency.


If you want to see a video of it in action & all the behind the scenes parts you can see it here :

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[Jiggins]

Interesting idea, the only thing I don't like is that you have a chest for a single item, perhaps using barrels would be a little more efficient in terms of space. Also you could use a filter to extract items/stacks of a single item from a chest with a few different items stored in it.

Seeing this inspired me to try something similar, although instead of using transposers, I would use a single retriever taking from all of the chests. The retriever has a filter similar to the filter and I assume a turtle could put items into the filter and take them out, I havn't tested yet. So in theory I could have 16*(number of turtles) items able to be requested in only 3 blocks + tubing. I havn't decided yet to use a wireless RedstoneNightmare's turtle from misc peripherals, or just use a turtle as a remote and transmit over rednet.

 

[TechStack]

Interesting idea, the only thing I don't like is that you have a chest for a single item, perhaps using barrels would be a little more efficient in terms of space. Also you could use a filter to extract items/stacks of a single item from a chest with a few different items stored in it.

Seeing this inspired me to try something similar, although instead of using transposers, I would use a single retriever taking from all of the chests. The retriever has a filter similar to the filter and I assume a turtle could put items into the filter and take them out, I havn't tested yet. So in theory I could have 16*(number of turtles) items able to be requested in only 3 blocks + tubing. I havn't decided yet to use a wireless RedstoneNightmare's turtle from misc peripherals, or just use a turtle as a remote and transmit over rednet.

Very Cool!
Your idea combines 2 I've been kicking around.
1 Using the retriever instead of a transposer.
2 using computer craft to control the system instead of wireless red-stone.
It should be possible to write a computer craft program that you can use to select which item to send and how many of them.

Thank you very much for your feedback you have inspired me to move forward with version 2.0 of this setup. It will eliminate the need for pneumatic tubes & any type of retriever , transposer or filter.
This setup is going to be sick, Thanks again.

 

[TechStack]

Wonder what happens when you combine this with way of flowing time's latest project.

You could even program an advanced computer with a rether modem, so you type in what you want, or pick it from a list, and it is set to request via that frequency... sort of like dire's teleport booth.[DOUBLEPOST=1357613369][/DOUBLEPOST]Wonder what happens when you combine this with way of flowing time's latest project.

You could even program an advanced computer with a rether modem, so you type in what you want, or pick it from a list, and it is set to request via that frequency... sort of like dire's teleport booth.

Version 2.0 of this setup I'm working on is a computer for requesting items, and a turtle that will retrieve them from the proper barrel and place it into an ender chest. Works a lot like the robots at Amazon's shipping centers that go to the proper row isle and tier to pick an item and deliver it in the wearhouse.

Once complete I plan on posting the code, Along with a video showing it in action.
I've already got the turtle programmed to find the ender chest and pick an item from a specific barrel.
Just need to program the GUI to select items and send the signal to the turtle.

 

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Oh and I forgot to mention the setup should be limitless as far as the number of items that can be in the system...its not limited to the 16 slots from the turtles inventory. It could have 300 items in the system and function with just one turtle picking items.

 

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I think i have a simple solution for the fuel problem.
When not in use the turtle will be stored in one position so it should easy to keep him fueled enough.

 

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Version 2.0 Is now up ! i've updated the first post in this thread with the details