This mod adds digiline wires, an RTC (Real Time Clock), a light sensor as well as an LCD Screen. Can be used together with the luacontroller from mesecons.
Digilines
This mod adds digiline wires, an RTC (Real Time Clock), a light sensor as well as an LCD Screen.
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Technic
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digistuff
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Homedecor
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Technic Plus
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“Hey, we don't accept binary signals…”
“Yay, we crafted two Luacontrollers! How to set up communications between them?”
“There are four pins on the Luacontroller, can we use them?”
“Hey, we don't accept binary signals. Processing Mesecons binary signal is a waste of time.”
“So, what can we do?”
On the story above, they are arguing because mesecons can only transmit single-bit binary signals. Though, it's slow to transmit data in Mesecon wires.
Digiline solves the problem. The two Luacontrollers can then send any Lua data types except for functions between each other.
Digiline is also easily extendable. With the API provided, mod creators can create fancy displays or TVs. Digilines is an important mod just like Mesecons.
The backbone of nearly all complex technology in Minetest
On its own, this mod doesn't do much - you get a mediocre LCD that can display a bit of text, two sensors that hardly anyone seems to ever use, and some blue wires (the digilines themselves). But once you get some other mods that work with this, that's when the fun starts...
Mesecons Luacontrollers (and similar mods, like mooncontroller) are the use that's initially most obvious. Connect two or more of them with digilines, and now you can pass arbitrary data back and forth between them. Now you can use multiple Luacontrollers working together to get more I/O pins, have two machines that run independently but also communicate with each other, or even just simplify wiring.
But then there are the peripherals (digistuff, LED Marquee, digiterms, Nixie Tubes...) - add some of those and now you can wire up a Luacontroller to just about anything you want. Just run digilines over to where you want it and place a button, sensor, piston, text or graphical display, touchscreen, light, or whatever, and now your Luacontroller can control an entire machine, moving parts and all, with just one wire.
By now, I've built hundreds of electronic devices using digilines, some of which have upwards of 1000 lines of code in the Luacontroller and over 100 digilines devices connected. Even at this scale the wiring was still practical - try doing that with just mesecons.
Advanced Communication Systems
Digilines empowers any world, making things possible which would not be otherwise. Digilines is the mortar of the bricks of a good server. Digilines is god of the server and very powerful.
Good companion to mesecons and other mods
I use it for communication with screens
Nice to make cool screens
I use it to make signs that accept more text. They are cooler and more compact. Good.
Must have if you're a luacontroller enthusiast
Digilines literally allow sending variables in between luacontrollers, and even other things too. Mods such as technic or pipeworks support those, and allow for e.g. querying information, which you can then display on the lcd screen included with this mod!
Of course, you can even install many mods that built on top of digilines, such as digistuff or digiterms.
I also recommend you check out the mesecons lab, where you can see many builds with stuff like mesecons, technic, digistuff etc.. In every section, they use luacontrollers!
Great for transmitting data from one lua controller to another
I think it's great for teleporting a mesecon signal to another location!
Must use with mesecons
Very good and simple to use, permit doing great things (mesecons only does logical signals).