With the latest update, we now have red crap that activates stuff. If you craft a match (red crap on stick), we can make some fun stuff out of it. One thing to notice is that the match turns stuff on. Another thing to notice is that the match turns off, when something around it turns on. One more thing to notice is that a wire will get turned on given at least one power source.
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Wood is the input, smooth stone is the output. The input/output can either be a wire or a match. The input can also be a switch (button, pressure plate, or lever).
The match/block itself is a NOT gate. Attaching two in series will be an identity gate, which will allow for indefinitely long wires.
The OR gate is a trivial case, since activating a wire requires simply one or more ON inputs.
There's an interesting case of a NOT gate being attached to itself. This causes the match to turn on and off rapidly, burning out after a while for around 10 seconds, and repeating this cycle. Connecting an odd number of NOT gates in a loop will produce the same result, albeit the turning on/off is slower.
So I played around a bit, and got this.
NOR gate
Then I remembered back in Freshman geometry something about DeMorgan's Law, and got this.
AND gate
And by the virtue of the same law, I acquire the universal logic gate
I'll figure out XOR later. I need to sleep.
But anyways. My friends, Minecraft computing has become a lot more advanced (without becoming overly complicated).
EDIT: It appears someone already posted this topic. I would've posted this a while ago, but my OCD forced me to take perfect pictures, that must be in day light >_>
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Well, you can go ahead and try to make a XOR gate or a full adder or whatever you want. I should've been to sleep 3 hours ago, but I have a lot of ideas.
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Heh, here we go again. A little comment though, I thought NOR gates are also universal? In this case, they have a more compact size too, so maybe they could be more workable into circuits.
Wouldn't there be some issues with "current" flowing backwards through some larger circuits though? I haven't found enough of the red "stuff" to fully test things out yet though, so I'm just speculating a bit.
i haven't had any problems with that and i'm checking out your suggestion for a smaller circuit
EDIT:seems you are correct that it would be smaller but the circuit would require for one of the switches be inside of a line making it harder to incorporate into larger pieces in our case being that the more "2d" we can keep it as possible at any time will make making larger structure much easier
Geez, Minecraft suddenly turned into an educational game about circuits, logic gates and such. None of which I have any idea about. Such a crash course into these stuff. :laugh.gif:
meh i was planing on setting up a wire mod development team for minecraft when lua came out anyways :biggrin.gif:
if you have any questions on the subject or suggestions on how to make my diagrams and or instructions easier please do say :biggrin.gif:
(I will convert images to block smilies tomorrow)
Wood is the input, smooth stone is the output. The input/output can either be a wire or a match. The input can also be a switch (button, pressure plate, or lever).
The match/block itself is a NOT gate. Attaching two in series will be an identity gate, which will allow for indefinitely long wires.
The OR gate is a trivial case, since activating a wire requires simply one or more ON inputs.
There's an interesting case of a NOT gate being attached to itself. This causes the match to turn on and off rapidly, burning out after a while for around 10 seconds, and repeating this cycle. Connecting an odd number of NOT gates in a loop will produce the same result, albeit the turning on/off is slower.
So I played around a bit, and got this.
NOR gate
Then I remembered back in Freshman geometry something about DeMorgan's Law, and got this.
AND gate
And by the virtue of the same law, I acquire the universal logic gate
NAND gate
Alternate design
I'll figure out XOR later. I need to sleep.
But anyways. My friends, Minecraft computing has become a lot more advanced (without becoming overly complicated).
EDIT: It appears someone already posted this topic. I would've posted this a while ago, but my OCD forced me to take perfect pictures, that must be in day light >_>
Contains Pachebel's Canon made with noteblocks, a working Rubik's cube made with pistons, and the ultimate TNT cannon.
BUT IT SOUNDS REALLY COOL.
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want to work together?
Well, you can go ahead and try to make a XOR gate or a full adder or whatever you want. I should've been to sleep 3 hours ago, but I have a lot of ideas.
Contains Pachebel's Canon made with noteblocks, a working Rubik's cube made with pistons, and the ultimate TNT cannon.
I only so far figured out up to how long a wire can be before power runs out and such but this this is ridiculous.
See? I'm not so malicious...
15 but this can be increased bye using two not gates
I just realized that concept from using your thread. Heh...
These stuff are new to me...
See? I'm not so malicious...
seems like a really small subject for a class
any chance you know of a online video class or something simular?
Wouldn't there be some issues with "current" flowing backwards through some larger circuits though? I haven't found enough of the red "stuff" to fully test things out yet though, so I'm just speculating a bit.
EDIT:seems you are correct that it would be smaller but the circuit would require for one of the switches be inside of a line making it harder to incorporate into larger pieces in our case being that the more "2d" we can keep it as possible at any time will make making larger structure much easier
See? I'm not so malicious...
if you have any questions on the subject or suggestions on how to make my diagrams and or instructions easier please do say :biggrin.gif:
i can't post results as they are too large apparently....
however, placing glow sticks on the sides of blocks will save me a TON of space, so i am going to go rebuild it anyhow!
here is my XOR diagram from the top:
= wire
= dirt
= red torch
[gold] = output/input
[iron] = empty
[iron] [iron] [gold] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron] [iron]
[iron] [iron]
[gold] [iron] [iron] [iron] [gold]
this functions properly where the output lights up if one of the 2 inputs is lit up, but not if both are lit up.
this + an AND gate = half adder
that x 8 = an 8 bit adding machine
...add some registers and....i am never going to sleep again
i made a XOR gate and thanks to Wervyn we have a much smaller version