What are you playing?

Didn't have much to do today, started up Minecraft again. I ended up making something functional with my limited knowledge of redstone.

I made a snowball-powered repeater/pulse generator where the user can control how many pulses are sent out, with a maximum of 143 pulses if you only use snowballs, 577 with regular 64-stacking items--I figured I'd limit it to snowballs for thematic purposes. Kinda proud of it since I spent like 4 hours re-learning redstone and building a messy prototype. I'm sure I can clean it up a bit more later.

 technical stuff

It's based on a comparator with a chest as a main input and a dispenser as a side input. The chest always gives a power output of 1, while the dispenser is filled so that the comparator outputs a non-zero signal. When the circuit is toggled on, a piston clock depletes the dispenser until it's empty, at which point the comparator outputs 0. The clock which powers the dispenser is on the same node as the lamp, so when the dispenser is empty, the clock stops ticking. The clock/lamp node is powered by a single signal (the lever in the album).

I called it a repeater, but it's really an engine. Outputs are modifiable so that it can power as many things as you want. Later I'm gonna try to make it so that it uses both side inputs of the comparator, and after that, so that it can take an infinite number of inputs. The end project I really want to make is some sort of automatic builder that creates a building based on a 3D schematic.