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superquinn AKA CrutchAmbassador! - superquinn - 03-28-2014
Hello all! Was referred here yesterday, and this place seems awesome! I'll probably be posting a build application shortly, but for now I'll just rattle off what I've done so far. etc. etc.
I started redstoning quite recently, after a year's hiatus from minecraft. I decided to take the extreme approach of self teaching and severed myself from the internet for a week and plonked myself in an empty creative world. At this point, the only working knowledge of redstone I had was the conductive properties. That was it.
Long story short, I built up from OR to AND to XOR to [is greater to? A>B? primitive comparator?], etc. etc. using only torches and the odd repeater. After that, I built a half subtractor (without looking anything up, mind you) then expanded it to a full sub. It hadn't occurred to me to chain them, so I made a 1 bit cache inside the module and built a 8 bit calculator that did the operations serially through a 1 bit cell. I had 8 bytes of memory though!
After that it dawned on me that I could line up everything in parallel to speed up the operations from 12 seconds to just a few ticks. I was very happy with myself for coming up with that!
I started condensing my logic gates with comparators and began building completely flat cells with the same processing speed as their classic counterparts. These were stacked on top of each other to form my maths modules, ram, and shift registers. Yes, I orient my bits vertically. I also have single height pistonless demultiplexors. Made those by accident when I made my insulated [+] junction. Pretty neat, but 3 ticks per junction is a bit slow for demuxes.
I just realised I could rehash this post and use it for an application. Ah well.
RE: superquinn AKA CrutchAmbassador! - Dcentrics - 03-28-2014
HI