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Andejak
Lvl 40Master Pony
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There are many redstone stuff! Here i will learn you some basics redstone circuits.

The first one i will learn you about is the ''T-Flip-Flop'' that's actually just a button act like a lever. Each time you hit the button,
a redstone power will go on the other state, than it was before. Off will be to on, and on will be off.

How it works is that each time you hit the button, the redstone torches turns off so the pistons goes in and out again. How they switch every time,
is because when you hit it, the piston that already are out are using the time to get in, while the other piston already are in, and then got the time
to push out again. How to wire it up then, is to put a block between the two pistons and then under one of the places the block will shift place by,
you place a block. When the block then is over, then you place a redstone dust on one of the sides of the block (Can be both sides).
Each time you hit the button, the block will switch between the to places and when it's above the redstone torch the redstone will be on,
and when it's above the block that's not a redstone torch you will not get a signal from the redstone dust. (To see a T-Flip-Flop, look at picture number two)
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The next redstone circuit i will talk about is RS NOR Latch (Memory cell). This stuff actually just does, so if you hit a button, it will remember it until
you hit another button (This is actually not everytime a button, but could also be just a pulse from everytime, also a lever or other circuits). How it works is,
that one of the torches need to be off, because when you set a pulse into one of the torches, that will turn off which turns the other on, which will do so the other torch
is off until next time you hit the other button (pulse). This is good for something like a lock with buttons instead of levers, but i will recommend levers, because that's
much more compact, better and you wont need a reset button to reset all if you miss a button, for example hit it when you shouldn't. Levers you can just hit again :-). (To see a RS NOR Latch, look at picture number tree)
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The third redstone circuit i will explain is an AND Gate, which is you need to hit two different levers or buttons with a RS NOR Latch or T-Flip-Flop to it, to get it turned on. This works by when you turns on both inputs,
the two redstone torches will turn off and a redstone dust in the middle when turn off because there is no redstone torch that turns it on anymore. The redstone dust turns off the block, and on the block there is a redstone torch.
When the redstone block then turns off, the redstone torch will then turn on again and that's actually the about. This is a very good method for example a lock. The redstone torch is then the output and can be linked to another
that's from another two. Then you got four levers you need to turn off to turn it on, but the output can also just be a normal output. If you want to make a lock where you want the only some of them to on, but the rest SHOULD be off,
you just needs to switch the redstone torches to redstone dust, behind the levers you want to be turned OFF. (To see an AND Gate, look at picture number four)
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Now, we going to check out the fourth redstone circuit! This circuit, is a bit more complicated, and it took me a bit more time to understand how it works, than the other circuits. It's named XOR Gate and
this circuit does, so if both levers are down, no signal will come, if both are up no will come, but if one is up and one is down, it will send a signal that stays on,
until you hit one of the levers. How it works is that when you hit one of the levers, one redstone torch on the top of the block turns off and the redstone torch on the other side will turn off and go into the the block in the front of it,
and turn on the redstone torch on the other side, which turns on the redstone. But if you take the signal from that lever again, it will turn off of course. And if you hit the other lever,
that lever will turn off the redstone torch above the block, and if both of theese are off, there are a redstone dust between them which then get unpowered, and then power the redstone torch wich goes into the two other redstone torches so the
redstone dust turn off. (To see a XOR Gate, look at picture number five)
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That was just the easy circuits! Shouldn't we head down to some more complicated?! Ithink i'll do that!

So, the first advanced redstone circuit i will explain is the binary counter! It's actually a calculator with three inputs which is: +1, +2 and +4. The outputs is then the numbers from 0-7. So if you turn on the input +1 and +4 you will get five,
and the output 5 will turn on and all other outputs will turns off. When you then hit the inputs, the redstone will turn on long down, and when they go into the block there is, they actually turns off a torch which turns on another OR turns off the redstone on the top of it.
When all the three redstone torches then is off, the redstone dust ontop of it will go off, and then that's the output. It's actually hard to explain ithink, but if you set this up correct, there could only be one output turned off at once. (To see a binary counter, look at picture six!)
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If you want tutorials on other redstone circuits, just write them in the comments! Ithink i will put some other advanced redstone circuits up later, but i'm not sure!
And the advanced redstone circuit is alot smaller than the others, because its advanced and then hard to explain ;-). I know i'm pretty bad at english, so if you find something i spelled wrong, i will be very happy, if you want to correct me :-).

This was made only by myself, but later ideas from comments is yours! I will NOT take the credit for them, so don't be shy :-). I would be happy, if you gave this a diamond, subscribe and favorite!

Sorry guys, but the pictures isn't up right now, but they will come up later on :-)!

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Nice7
08/11/2012 7:24 am
Level 41 : Master Fish
I was going to go into detail like this but I didn't have the time like you didn't with pictures.overall a good tutorial. Maybe write it in a simpler way so noobs can read it.
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Andejak
08/11/2012 11:41 am
Level 40 : Master Pony
Yea, this was to people with understand redstone just a little, so they can learn a bit more. Could be we could be a good team! You are good to explain it for noobs and i'm good to explain for people which had learned it a bit xD! But gratz with your blog! :-). I never got time to take photos... And i was actually putting one more advanced redstone circuit on, but when i hit ''save'', planetminecraft just crashed, so it didn't save :(
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