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Microcontroller Minecarts

Open v1993 opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Finally a competitor to Ruby on rails! Computers faster than you ever wanted them to be!

Ahem, this is my take on idea from #179. Since locomotive relay is quite limited and wasn't intended for long-range control to begin with, how about making microcontroller minecarts that let you control locomotives they're attached to? You make microcontroller, put it into minecart, link to locomotive and off you go!

API is like what locomotive relay provides, plus:

  • get/setMode for managing locomotive mode
  • get/setSpeed for managing speed (1-4)
  • get/setReverse for managing reverse (as boolean)
  • possibly increase/decreaseSpeed for easier control over speed, but not required (easy for end users to implement with get/setSpeed anyways)
  • tellPassengers - send message to all passengers of current train like message track kit does

Additionally, I think that getting coordinates wouldn't be great. Instead, we can have computer track kit that sends event with custom string to microcontroller carts that pass over it.

v1993 avatar Jun 24 '21 21:06 v1993

Good feature!

DevWolf31 avatar Feb 10 '22 03:02 DevWolf31