It works! it works! *happy dance*
*Ahem* ... I mean, this is a joyous occasion for all dwarfkind.
It will be a fairly large cell of pumps and gears with linkages going every which way, but I got the tile advancer running like clockwork. I tried to make these images as clear as possible, hope you can follow.
Starting position:
This is just a testing version so the machinery placement isn't ideal, but it functions identical to a full sized one.
This is the starting position of the gears. Red means the gear is disengaged and green engaged. Gray gears provide power and are always on, the yellow aren't used in the advancement but will be used at another time to reset everything and possibly be used for backspacing. For now they are disengaged. You can pretty much ignore everything on level 3 except the red gear marked B.
The main focus of all this is marked by a green box on the 2nd level. The 3 sets of red gears in it each represent a tile on this display:
In order for a letter to by typed on the display tile, both gears need to be engaged. By default, if I throw a lever on the keyboard only the first set will engage. What the advancer does after you reset the lever and throw another, only the second set will engage, and so on and so forth. I'll try and run through the whole thing.
A: This is a key on the keyboard. It can be any key, it doesn't matter. When the lever is thrown-
B: This gear is engaged, transfering power to-
C: This pump, which activates the pressure plate and-
D: Switches all the marked gears which-
E: Completes this circuit, sending power to-
F: This pump, which activates the pressure plate and-
G: Engages these 2 gears which-
H: Completes this circuit, allowing whatever letter on the keyboard was switched to be shown on the first tile on the display.
This is what it looks like now with all the gears changed:
(picture water covering the pressure plate on the left)
And so begins the de-switch with-
A: Time to reset this switch which-
B: Disengages this gear which-
C: Cuts power to this pump, activating its pressure plate once more after the water drains which (dis)engages-
D: These gears once again which-
E: Breaks this circuit (not needed anymore to display the letter) and connects-
F: This circuit, sending power to-
G: This pump, which activates a pressure plate that switches-
H: All of these gears, which basically cuts power to itself, makes sure the first tile doesn't accept any more signals and passes the baton to the next tile over so IT will be worked on when another lever on the keyboard is flipped.
And so, after all that, the gearing now looks like this:
All ready for the next keyboard input. I hope all that makes sense.
SO. I don't know if this is all going to lead to a functioning A.I, but at the very least when the above is installed and everything linked up, I will have essentially made the very first dwarfputed notepad. Hurray!
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Topic: Cyberdorf Systems: Dwarfputing an A.I. (0.1.1 Alpha) (Read 113062 times)