I was playing around with making lockable chests with pistons the other day and my first thought was to have 2 pistons exchange pushing and pulling the appropriate blocks over a chest. Turns out I was way over thinking that. I got by with 1 sticky piston and a block.
One of the things that would make working with multiple pistons easier is a type of circuit that would have a delay when switched on and when turned off, that would be immediate. That way, wiring multiple pistons to the same redstone wire would be possible without some additional fancy delay circuits.
My initial thought was to have a rising edge detector circuit that powers a redstone repeater when detecting a 0 to 1 transition (the rising edge) and when the input turns off, the repeater is not used by the circuit. Relatively easy to think of, not so easy to implement.
Any redstone wiring geniuses out there want to give this a shot? I've looked around on the forums and the Internet with no luck. If anybody could help me out, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks.
You can make it only 1 wide by having the input hitting a negate, then the signal goes through a few repeaters (as many as you need for the appropriate delay) before hitting another negate. On top of the repeaters there is a line of blocks with redstone on, right up to the final negate. The torch from the first negate powers the redstone which then goes down onto the last negate:
R = redstone
B = block
T = torch
D = repeater
......R.R.R.R
......B.B.B.B.R
R.B.T.D.D.D.B.T
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One of the things that would make working with multiple pistons easier is a type of circuit that would have a delay when switched on and when turned off, that would be immediate. That way, wiring multiple pistons to the same redstone wire would be possible without some additional fancy delay circuits.
My initial thought was to have a rising edge detector circuit that powers a redstone repeater when detecting a 0 to 1 transition (the rising edge) and when the input turns off, the repeater is not used by the circuit. Relatively easy to think of, not so easy to implement.
Any redstone wiring geniuses out there want to give this a shot? I've looked around on the forums and the Internet with no luck. If anybody could help me out, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks.
(Circuit designed with Circuit Simulator. Click the image to find out more.)
I love these forums. Your solution works just as good. It's great having options.