Redstone circuit ideas

redstone.md

#Exploring Redstone Circuits

###Resources Basic Gate Tutorials

Redstone circuits background

###Ideas

####Basic Inputs

Using a pressure plate and a door as an output, create a system where a building's door will open automatically for you.

• Pressure plates produce a signal when stepped on.
• Doors will open when they receive a signal.

Create a lever-powered door, where pulling the lever will open a door and releasing it will close the door.

• Levers will toggle between signal on and signal off.

####Wiring Basics

Signal can only travel 15 'wires' of redstone. It gets weaker (darker) as it goes along, after it has dimmed 15 times it is indistinguishable from 'off'.

The hardest part of wiring redstone (after you know what you want to build) is overlapping your connections without them interfering with eachother. Space is a premium. Single height (wide) operators are easy to build but complicated techniques can trade heigher components for smaller footprints.

####Processing Inputs

Using an AND gate, produce a system that combines the two above inputs. When the lever is activated the door should open when the pressure plate is stepped on. When the lever is disabled, stepping on the pressure plate should have no effect.

####Combining Oscillators

Build an oscillator that produces a pulsing signal at a rate (other than the fastest, that crashes often).

Try combining it with a oscillator firing at a different rate so that pulses are only generated when they overlap.

Oscillators can be used to provide 'rapid firing' outputs such as a machine-gun dispenser.