The Powder Toy

How do you make the piston ships?

  • Gsterman     26th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Without the gun, of course, but if someone could atleast explain how they work to give me an idea of how to make them please tell me.

  • Alec_the_Martin     27th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    I haven't actually made any, but the basic idea seems simlpe. It looks like they have two pistons facing each other .If it's moving right, the piston on the left pushes the other piston right, then the piston on the right pulls the other piston in and it cycles through.
  • Gsterman     1st Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    I tried that and it failed miserably.

    Not to say that its wrong, you were right on the idea of it, i ust need to know how to make it.

  • firefreak11     1st Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @Gsterman (View Post)

     cracker knows how I think he came up with the idea.

  • Gsterman     1st Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    i know that...

    i doubt he will tell me how, if thats what your saying.

    does anyone know how to make it step by step? really all i need is how to make it push and pull the ship

     

    edit:help would be aprecciated

  • Alec_the_Martin     2nd Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    I looked closer and it still has that basic idea but it failed at first too. It looks like you need a frame between the pistons so they don't freak out. The one on the left pushes the main machine then an eraser cray erases the piston that was just put in so the piston on the right can push left and then pull in the left piston. With some messing around and reverse engineering the ones already made will make sense.
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