I was just explaining why that was the name, a fun fact if you will. I suppose you could could use it for a line of torches, hook a bunch together and invert the outputs. Make it look like a light is going back and forth across the line. So far I have found no real use for an ABBA switch in a computer or anything like that.
And that's true... I hadn't thought about it that way.
Looks like you got your quoting mixed up a bit there, haha.
I don't mean an ABBA switch, but one that is similar, but just "fires" B again to bring whatever block it was pushing back to it.
Ive always found the easiest way to work with Redstone is to just mess around with it. You can make alot of the logic gates by sheer accident and learn to apply them constructively in your builds.
On my first world (before the save was corrupted) I had a burglar alarm system rigged up to sticky pistons on all my doors. I had note blocks in every building too so if I was not in the main one, I still knew if someone had entered my main one. I had hidden switches in all the buildings to turn the alarm off and if I kept that switch in the off position, the alarm was permanently off. Only used the alarm if friends of friends had joined my game.
All that, no tutorials, and Ive only had Minecraft for a month. 2 hours of playing around, getting things rigged up, fault checking and what-not.
I can see why people post all these logic gates and stuff but in all honesty I find trial and error is the greatest method to working with redstone. Some of the greatest inventions and discoveries were created/found by accident after all
I don't use tutorials, but I do look up designs after I've figured something out. If somebody else's design is faster than my own, I'm going to use it. Trial and error isn't really going to work with computer components. This is the way they were first built, but it certainly wasn't all done by one man. You have to actually know how something sophisticated like a GPU, computer, calculator, Turing machine, whatever, is put together in real life before you can effectively build one. These things don't just happen by accident.
If you want to know how to build something that processes data, based on logical functions, you have to know how logic works. I only posted one logic gate on this page, and that was strictly because it was an obscure gate that most people don't know about. There are several more logic gates that are fairly unknown. But, 99% of the time, they are completely useless, except in theory, that's why I didn't post them. Also, there are no tutorials on this page, and you will never see me make a redstone tutorial. All I've done on this page is explain various components, the pictures are only showing them in action.
Looks like you got your quoting mixed up a bit there, haha.
I don't mean an ABBA switch, but one that is similar, but just "fires" B again to bring whatever block it was pushing back to it.
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Retired StaffOhhh, a piston double extender, like for a 3x3 door. I thought you made a typo. xD Also, I fixed the quote.
I don't use tutorials, but I do look up designs after I've figured something out. If somebody else's design is faster than my own, I'm going to use it.
If you want to know how to build something that processes data, based on logical functions, you have to know how logic works. I only posted one logic gate on this page, and that was strictly because it was an obscure gate that most people don't know about. There are several more logic gates that are fairly unknown. But, 99% of the time, they are completely useless, except in theory, that's why I didn't post them. Also, there are no tutorials on this page, and you will never see me make a redstone tutorial. All I've done on this page is explain various components, the pictures are only showing them in action.