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.
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.