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Portal in and portal out help

  • The-Con     13th Apr 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Hi
    I am creating a draw pad thing, with memory and for a range of reasons I used PRTO/I(portal out/ in) to turn on the display pixel things. The problem I am having is: When I spark the draw pad, all works well, but when I access its memory, it doesn't conduct properly... (The display requires several sparks from PRTI to conduct to PRTO)
    I can not switch PRTI/O for WIFI because the display 10x10. That means that if I use WIFI, i will have to use portal to clear everything which means it will have to be sparked 100 times or more to clear everything.
    I'm thinking that it is interference, but there is no insulator to block it.
    Is there any way to overcome this problem? Thanks for any help.
    (I'm nearly finished, so it is very frustrating)
  • Racer-Delux     13th Apr 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    When you have one portal in, but multiple portal outs, it can get glitchy with electricity. You have to hold the spark for the portal in in order for all portal outs to receive a spark.

    Portals are not yet fixed up enough to the point where they can be used in electronics and have a constant result (like wifi)
  • The-Con     13th Apr 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Racer-Delux (View Post)
    I have explored that issue before. could the issue be fixed by having equal numbers of portal In's as portal outs? i will try that.
    Portals were my last resort... well actually I decided to use them for this part at the beginning as it was the wisest choice.
    And thanks for reminding me that that would be the problem.
    EDIT: no it doesn't work that way. Maybe there should be a way to make a specific designation between portal in and out.
    Until this has been changed (If it will be) The project that has taken me several hours is dead. That is now two major projects in a row that have died for me... :(
    If it did change, then it would most likely be only for spark and not for other particles, because then it would defeat the purpose... or more wifi channels. (I would code for it, but i can't be bothered.)
  • Racer-Delux     13th Apr 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Just saw the reply. No equal numbers will not help. You can have more inputs and only one output and be fine. Multiple outputs but one input will cause errors.
  • The-Con     13th Apr 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Yeah... Until then I have just posted the display. The ram on the failed version took up the whole horizontal screen (each memory thing was thin though). I'm sure it could have been smaller.
    This is the display on its own: (It is larger on this one because there were available WIFI channels.)

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    To imagine what the memory thing looked like, imagine save, clear and delete buttons and a whole bunch of wires at the bottom of the screen. (I don't want to post it because it will probably be voted down because it doesn't work.)
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