The Powder Toy

Help please!

  • walia6     7th Jul 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    So im kind of a newb to powdertoy and i am trying to make a water cycle machine but I need help with the wifi I do not know how to use wifi i even read the wiki for some reason the buttons keep flashing

    https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=1251753

  • Cacophony     7th Jul 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    (I'm assuming you don't know how to change channels)

    WIFI uses frequencies and you change them using the HEAT and COOL tools in the TOOLS section.

     

    And those buttons aren't really flashing. Electricity's just flowing through them. Perfectly normal.

  • walia6     7th Jul 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    but when i press the red with spark it is supposed to stop letting the water flow out and when i press green it is supposed to let the water flow out

  • boxmein     7th Jul 2013 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    Water's a sort of bad element because it also conducts electricity and it can receive that electricity from walls, so what you have is the water getting stuck to a kind of battery and wifi leading back to the buttons.

    (the below works by ~1251790)
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  • candorgen     7th Jul 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Are you using batteries (BTRY)? If so, that would explain the continuous flashing, as the battery keeps on sending sparks through the conductors.

  • Cacophony     7th Jul 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Oh, I see the problem now.When you press the button, the current moves from the button to the gate to the wall, but since the wall conducts electricity,it goes to the other gate. In that case, replace the walll(the one holding the water) with something else.

  • bimmo_devices     8th Jul 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    water is a headache when it comes to walls.

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