Minecraft Redstone Project

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I am an electronics student and have found redstone helpful in understanding topics in electronics.
I have recently created shift registers for moving data across large areas, adapted shift registers for multiplying two numbers, about 3 different clocks, a 1024 bit binary adder and many other things.
I was going to make an ALU/CPU but feel this is too hard or will take to long.
so i was wondering what a good middle project could be. something challenging but not too time consuming

All suggestions welcome

Thanks :)
 
I fear you may have exceeded the entire forum's minecraft redstone knowledge. I thought mine wasnt too bad, but that is some really impressive stuff that you've made from vanilla redstone

What might be worth doing is adding the Redpower2 mod (currently only updated to MC 1.2.5) because this makes redstone wiring SO much better. It also comes with a bunch of prefabricated gates which can be placed on the floor, walls and ceilings (kind of like levers in 1.3.x and above) which make life so much easier.

With all the redpower stuff the thought of making a CPU or ALU might be slightly less daunting (although redpower has a premade computer which uses forth as a programming language). Wireless redstone chickenbones edition works wonders with this mod too


these three videos neatly demonstrate the wiring and different logic circuits that you have in redpower2:
Wiring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9-FqWnkmU
logic gates 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHrSSQgdhDU
logic gates 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2e5a8I4ANQ
Microblocks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWraPwLKCys
The microblocks one isnt realy that useful for what you are after, but there are a couple of things that do help for making your wiring more compact
 
I have used redpower before but didn't particularly like it. I prefer the basics, makes my projects feel like achievements after completing them.
May have a look at some CPU/ALU minecraft builds and see if they help me along the way.
Maybe I'll start with a 4 bit ALU and work up :)
 
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