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Macrochip

Create 'virtual circuits' inside Macrochips, saving footprint space in game world. Interact with one to open its console/circuit board where you can place a wide variety of components and labels.

Amongst the large number of components available for circuit building are logic gates, timers, flip-flops, shift registers and encoders/decoders.

The standard Macrochip uses 4 input and 4 output nodes.

The smaller Minimacrochip uses 2 input and 2 output nodes.

The tiny Remote Macrochip has a single Input node.

Also available are Megamacrochips with 24 - TWENTY FOUR - nodes, a dozen each of input and output!

Main Input and Output components are placed on a circuit to correspond to the objects own nodes.

Each size of Macrochip can also utilize Remote Input and Remote Output Nodes, which can be renamed, hidden or camoflagued as foreground blocks similar to those behind them. Remote nodes can transmit / receive from anywhere on the same world.

Macrochips, Minimacrochips and Remote Macrochips are wall-mounted, whilst Megamacrochips are contained in larger cabinet-like cases placed on the floor.

Any macrochip can be hidden or camoflagued via its Options menu (opened with [O] key or the Cog icon at top right of its console window.) They also can have their 'skin' outer casings freely changed to better fit certain decors: the six currently available skin styles are Default, Foundry, Service, Apex Cool, Avian Temple, and Avali Tech. (Feel free to suggest more!)

Macrochips retain their circuit data from being placed objects when they are returned to being inventory items and can easily be identified in your inventory by being named Programmed Macrochips (or the equivalent for the Remote Macrochip and Megamacrochip versions) and also noting the circuit name, if you have assigned one, in the items description.

Includes a manual opened with F1 from the Macrochips console and a Wizard whose tips can be toggled on/off with [H] or via the options menu.

The Macrochip Workstation can be made from a fully upgraded Inventors Table.

With this you can upload/download/rename circuits from inserted macrochips or upload from read-only datasticks (which are obtained by pressing [E] in a macrochips virtual circuit console, causing them to eject a datastick item), allowing you to quickly copy virtual circuitry. Also allows you to erase the data on a macrochip.

Note: Alt E will eject a datastick and also write the necessary /spawnitem command to the starbound.log file for use in admin mode. This may be handy for passing circuit data to other players/characters.

Also includes NAND, NOR, and XNOR Gates and a Relay to complement the logic objects already in vanilla game.

An Item Sensor which detects whether a particular item or object is nearby (including if contained in a players inventory.) Place an item into the sensors single slot to initially set it.

Hexidecimal Display objects. Whilst unwired the hexidecimal display objects can be interacted with to change their color.

A Definable Button. Whilst unwired interaction with this button opens a window in which you can alter the buttons active signal output duration and depress duration, as well as its appearance for on and off states in multiple colors and available decals. Once wired up it acts like, well, a button - or switch, if you want it to. :)

A Tintable Spotlight. This spotlight has six inputs. The top three set its facing direction to Left, On/off, and facing to Right (if neither or both the Left/Right inputs are true, the spotlight points down.) The bottom three are to set the Red, Green and Blue light tint on/off. Not really a logic object but added as a bit of fun.

The Macrochips, remote nodes and these other new objects can all be found at your Wiring Station.

The vanilla logic gates, Delay, Dlatch, Countdown Timer and the various set Timers (along with the added logic gate objects mentioned above) can all be interacted with whilst they are unwired to change their appearance, cycling through Default, Service, Apex Cool, Avian Temple and Avali Tech variant styles. (Note the Foundry style is not included as they exist as seperate objects in game) and a final 'skin' which hides them from sight fully.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=876960122 WIP Version now available, for those willing to chance the bugs and help me test.

This mod is pretty complicated, so some bugs will slip through from time to time as I update with changes or additions to it - hopefully these will be caught at the WIP stage. If you encounter one, please provide a link to a copy of your last starbound.log file (which can be found in your Starbound storage folder) prior to the game crash/console blackscreen at pastebin .com or similar site, which should help me in tracking down and resolving such issues. Hopefully such bugs will now be restricted to the WIP version of course.

Thank you for your support of this mod!

I'd like to see how you folks out there are using this mod! Feel free to take/post some screenshots and give me the links, and you can show off your wiring work.

A 3-level elevator[imgur.com] from Sarkanthonier.
An elevator[tieba.baidu.com] system from didi-wang (external site in chinese.)
An Airlock from BillyBobson.
In-chip LED banner text scroller; with an animated look at it in action, by didi.wang.

From asus349, some youtube tutorials on Macrochips.