Beacon API

Hi! This API lets you set rednet (for lack of a better term) "waypoints" to let your turtles navigate to different places.

Download:

pastebin get 7wbEnhwv beacon

Documentation:

(assumes beacon is the loaded API name)

--#For the hosting computer/turtle

beacon.host(channel,message)
--#channel is the channel it will broadcast on
--#message is the message it will send, good for identification on the same channel (If absent defaults to "")
--#It will respond to "PING" messages on the channel "channel", and reply with the message you specified

--#For the recieving turtle

beacon.goTo(channel,message)
--#The channel and message must match that of the host
--#Bonus feature: If you call it like beacon.goTo(true), it goes to the first GPS server that responds!
--#It breaks any blocks in its way
--#When message is absent, it takes any signal from that channel

Hope this is useful!

Cool

Noone thinks this is practical?

If you do, I may set up a waypoint program.

I'll test it on the server as soon as I get home.

Around 19:00 swedish time

This a really good idea!

Thanks! Tell me if there is any improvements I could make or bugs I could fix.

Nice!

cool, nice idea