Showcase [Showcase] A compact 32-destination teleporter hub with display and 2-click input

Jagriff

Terrarian
It consists of a user part near my base end-user.png and a logic part off-screen (near the top edge of the map) logic-system.png.

The wiring can be seen here: end-user-wire.png logic-sytem-wire.png

The left cluster of switches select between A, B, C, and D and the right cluster selects between 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. The green and red wires exiting the hub go to the destination teleporters. Return teleportation works perfectly. Teleporting to a destination that isn't hooked up will take you to the logic part (so that you can hook it up) and the switches there will take you back to the user part.

The teleporter in the glass box painted with shadow paint is the hub teleporter. The other one goes to my spawn area. For those interested, here is an imgur album showing the different stages of development. The first hub in the album is also uploaded here since some of you may want this but not care about the display or special input system.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or especially if you have any improvements.

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Very cool design!

I tried to follow your layout but I've gone awry at some point connecting up the billboard and switches.

Perhaps someone can see my error(s). . .

I'm new to the 1.3 wiring and perhaps this was a bit beyond my understanding of the logic gates.

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Teleporter Wiring.PNG
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Perhaps someone can see my error(s). . .
I am still just figuring out how this whole contraption works, but I can see on your second picture, that you didn't hook up the long AND gates to the transistors. (They are the red wires on the original post)
You also missed a piece of blue wire in the left swich-bank decoding thing.
 
I am still just figuring out how this whole contraption works, but I can see on your second picture, that you didn't hook up the long AND gates to the transistors. (They are the red wires on the original post)
You also missed a piece of blue wire in the left swich-bank decoding thing.

I did find those errors after I walked away but I made numerous transposition errors by directly copying what I saw in the OP. I also attached the yellow activation wire in the wrong place; the secondary transport gate was activating prior to the initial transport.

Problem solving on the original setup was impossible as I could not see what the gates were doing from the console as I started over and built a test teleporter system enclosed in one room so I could work out the bugs.

I started with the billboard display. I got the ALPHA logic gate sequence and display working correctly, then did the same with the NUMERIC logic and display.

I then rebuilt the transporter gate logic and added 4 destination pads.

Based on my limited testing, the system is now fully functional and I now have to re-locate the input pad and display from the test room to my spawn point.

Testing Teleporter no wiring.PNG
Testing Teleporter Wiring.PNG
 
Looks great... now to figure out how it works!
 
That thing really work?
I've tried several times with the complete stuff and got different results.
Now, I just tried the ALPHA part, worked once with the first letter, and now, nothing.
You see anything?

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[doublepost=1477348743,1477324828][/doublepost]Got the first part! :D
 
Hey! I'm just now checking back and am pleasantly surprised and honored to find people wanting to duplicate the hub. I have started a PhD program in mathematics and so I am incredibly busy. Unfortunately this means that I don't have the time to help debug your creations. I'll leave you with the following material.


This video is my original hub -
It captures some of the main ideas, but I made considerable improvements. The main benefit here is that I explain in the video how everything works, so you can get some ideas about why things are wired the way they are. Of course, everything is easier once you understand the "why"! In the final hub, things are more complicated (primarily due to the input system and display), but this is a good starting point.

This video -
It may not be super helpful, but this video shows the hub in action. You get some more angles.

The main resource is the imgur album (see OP). Not only does it contain an image with all of the wiring in a condensed form, it also includes some paragraphs explaining how it works. Granted, I was a little terse and this project is certainly nontrivial, but I still recommend going through all of this information (ideally after understanding everything in the first video) and trying to "figure things out" along the way. Trust me. It will be tremendously more satisfying to learn and understand it. Plus, I think it is less painful than just copying it component by component, wire by wire; but of course I enjoy this sort of thing :)

However, if you insist, PM me your email and I'll send you a world download.
 
That thing really work?
I've tried several times with the complete stuff and got different results.
Now, I just tried the ALPHA part, worked once with the first letter, and now, nothing.
You see anything?

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[doublepost=1477348743,1477324828][/doublepost]Got the first part! :D
The Logic Gate Lamps above the Display Control Gates are out of sequence.

Remove these gate lamps, select A then install 3 ON lamps above the first display logic gate, then select B and repeat the installation of the ON Lamps then repeat for C and D.

You may have to temporarily remove the wires going to the torches so you can manually turn them all off. Then select anything other than A and connect the red wire. Select A and ensure that the letter A is displayed. Leave the switch at A and connect the Blue wire (B). Select B and ensure that the letter B is correctly displayed. repeat for C and D.
 
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