Minecraft - Tutorial: Hopper Timer
Why Arqade Stack Exchange recommends it
Gaming Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when asking how to build long or adjustable redstone delays and timers.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2013 to 2014.
What it is
A 2013 Minecraft redstone tutorial by EthosLab showing a compact, adjustable timer built from two hoppers passing items back and forth, controlled by an RS NOR latch. Each item in the hoppers adds 0.7 seconds of delay, up to 320 items.
What people said
Recommends MBraedley · 2013-02 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “Minecraft save-all timer”
Etho [this video] , SethBling [LINK] , and MinecraftAddict [LINK] have all demoed long period clocks using hoppers and comparators that were added in 1.5. I'll explain Etho's design since it's fairly simple. Set up an RS-NOR latch using the new block of redstone: put down two pistons facing each other with a two block space in between, and then plop down a redstone block. Cap off the ends with just some redstone dust. These are the inputs for the latch. One one side of the RS-NOR latch, put down two hoppers feeding into each other. Then place comparators coming out of the hoppers next to the pistons, and have them power a block. When the hopper has items, it'll power the block, powering the redst
Recommends SingleNegationElimination · 2013-06 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “How do I create a very long delay with Redstone?”
I've recently worked out this circuit: On the right is one of Etho [LINK] 's Hopper timer [this video] , which can be extend to about three and a half minutes, with precise adjustment by adjusting the number of items in it. On the left is another hopper timer, just like it. The timer on the left is not being used as a timer, but rather, a counter, counting the number of times the timer on the right has cycled. The redstone on the hoppers on the left disable the counter except when the timer on the right resets, and then allows it to run just long enough to allow one item to shift around. When all of the items have shifted in the counter from one hopper to the other, it switches the output on the
Recommends Flaunting · 2014-08 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “How do i make a button with delayed reactivation time?”
link [this video] you would use the piston in the design to block the signal, i can't post an answer as i am at work but this should work
Cites David · 2013-12 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “Hopper Timer only exchanges one item?”
Interesting. Essentially I've been referencing this video: [this video] And this same behavior is happening on the smaller piston-based timer. The larger one still works, I just re-built it and it's working.