I am going to test two ideas on you guys. 1[Micro samples] 2[Laser tagger]

I'll start off with micro samples.
A micro sample is basically a small piece of a block. You start off by crafting a glass tube from glass and cork. Then you combine that with a block in the crafting table, this gives you a micro sample.

A container would also be craft-able. This would be able to hold about 4 or something samples. Also it would occupy one inventory slot.The turtle could then use these samples for comparison. Each sample could be used about a couple of hundred times. Based on the sampled material or the material the container it was made from.

turtle.compareToSample("slot","sample number")

I think this would be a cool addition, while preserving the "fourth wall". Give me your opinions.

Onto number two, Laser tagger.
A laser tagger gun/hand-device. And this in combination with an electronic backpack capable of holding a floppy drive. Or a rednet transmitting backpack. You shoot the gun on a block and it will store the coordinates on the floppy-drive or transmit them over rednet.

English is not my native language. xD

The first one sounds like a good idea for the WIP mod DNAcraft by Mikeemoo, he's an active user on these forums, so you can always suggest it to him.

The second one sounds more like a third party mod than regular CC. Maybe a peripheral add-on? IDK, just it doesn't seem to fit with CC.

How does the first suggestion relate to ComputerCraft in any way? Aside from 'comparison' using a turtle.

I don't really see a purpose for the second suggestion. The devs may think so otherwise, but for me it seems a bit pointless.

Don't get me wrong, they are good ideas, they just don't fit in with the mod very well.

SuicidalSTDz, on 13 April 2013 - 05:53 PM said:

How does the first suggestion relate to ComputerCraft in any way? Aside from 'comparison' using a turtle.

The idea came to me under a presentation at my college, the presentation was about the mars rover
Curiosity

and how they had to program it to be self sufficient. And this is really just a way to give the turtle the ability to make better decisions without compromising its inventory space to much and not breaking the fourth wall. I am aware that there are peripherals that allows the turtle to store block ids and such, but that seems a bit cheap.

However your opinion is appreciated. :)/>

Ok, that makes more sense. We'll have to see what Cloudy or dan says.

So if I understand your first idea, you want to be able to put "chips" of several different types of blocks inside of a container. You could then compare a block to the container and if it matches any of the chips it would return true? I like that idea, although it does sound like a pain to mod. This would allow a much more compacted inventory while at the same time being able to make comparisons on tons of blocks.

Bubba, on 14 April 2013 - 07:45 AM said:

So if I understand your first idea, you want to be able to put "chips" of several different types of blocks inside of a container. You could then compare a block to the container and if it matches any of the chips it would return true? I like that idea, although it does sound like a pain to mod. This would allow a much more compacted inventory while at the same time being able to make comparisons on tons of blocks.

You have understood it. I hope I was not too unclear in presenting this xD.

It would be amazing in my opinion. It allows you to group similar blocks to mine rather than carrying dirt, stone, cobble, sand and gravel to identify slag you could have a bottle for it and another bottle for ores