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Use Analog Redstone Signals to Control Your Machines with the Goldilocks Gate

When you get bored and ordinary boolean logic gates just won't solve your problems, and when AND-gates, OR-gates and XNOR-gates just feel too digital, why not make your redstone contraptions feel a bit more analog?

How?

With a Goldilocks-gate, of course.

Various textured blocks arranged in a row in a Minecraft setting.

Various block types in a Minecraft environment.

It (ab)uses the fact that redstone signals only travel 15 blocks. The first signal was too weak:

Minecraft redstone contraption on a white platform.

The second signal was too strong:

Redstone contraption in Minecraft with redstone dust and blocks.

But the last signal was just right:

Minecraft redstone machinery setup with components arranged on a flat surface.

You can use it to control multiple redstone contraptions with a single line of redstone dust. The only caveat is that if you try to send more than one signal at a time, the strongest will override the weaker ones.

Redstone circuit in a Minecraft landscape.

If (when) you use it, please leave a comment. I'd love to hear what you thought/made of it. :)

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