Monitors for Turtles?

Hi,

What about monitors for turtles. Would work much the same as normal Monitors but would be build into a Turtle. They would be useful for communicating with a Turtle without opening the console. Maybe your Turtle want's to tell you something?

This could be done as a peripheral too. I already thought about trying it but I don't have that much practice in java yet.

xuma

Can't you use rednet messages to a computer? Most turtles move about and spend a lot of time where you can't actually see them easily, so having a display on the turtle itself might not be very useful in most situations.

ChunLing, on 01 August 2012 - 03:22 AM said:

Can't you use rednet messages to a computer? Most turtles move about and spend a lot of time where you can't actually see them easily, so having a display on the turtle itself might not be very useful in most situations.

Of course I could but I'd been thinking of a Turtle as your "personal guide" your "friend" so to say.

Ah…I'd been thinking of them more as lava-proof robots that mindlessly carry out my whims as long as I type them in correctly. And mindlessly destroy my stuff (or just mock me with hurtful comments) when I make a typo. For a "personal guide", I'd go with an item that could be used as a console (i.e. select and right-click with it, and you bring up a rednet/modem equipped console interface that would let you find your GPS, send/receive rednet messages, or just play adventure while standing around waiting for a creeper to appear).

Actually, that kinda sounds like a terrible idea.

The big problem with monitors that are working with a turtle using rednet is the Monitors don't move. So your display is not where you may need it.

Well, since the main reason to want to have a monitor on a turtle would be to see what it's up to when you can't actually reach it to access its screen, I was thinking of having the monitor somewhere else as a plus. But if you want to program the turtle to come up to you and display a message…I think that you could already do that by having it place a monitor block and output to it. The monitor control api is available to the turtle, after all.

ChunLing, on 02 August 2012 - 10:52 PM said:

Ah…I'd been thinking of them more as lava-proof robots that mindlessly carry out my whims as long as I type them in correctly. And mindlessly destroy my stuff (or just mock me with hurtful comments) when I make a typo. For a "personal guide", I'd go with an item that could be used as a console (i.e. select and right-click with it, and you bring up a rednet/modem equipped console interface that would let you find your GPS, send/receive rednet messages, or just play adventure while standing around waiting for a creeper to appear).

Actually, that kinda sounds like a terrible idea.

Not terrible, just long winded and awkward to implement for people of lower programming skill. On top of which it would mean you'd have to actually find a console.

xuma202, on 29 July 2012 - 11:30 AM said:

What about monitors for turtles. Would work much the same as normal Monitors but would be build into a Turtle. They would be useful for communicating with a Turtle without opening the console. Maybe your Turtle want's to tell you something?

This could be done as a peripheral too.

I want a Monitor for Turtle too. But since it seems to be rarely used, doubt it will be in standard recipe.
If someone make it a Turtle Upgrade, it would be strange to see it on a side. Face is only reasonable place for it.
It is a pity to have only one Upgrade for a Turtle. Any Upgrade except Modem make Turtle almost unable to communicate.

Most things, I want Monitor for Turtles for are short status messages and Smiles. It would be fun to draw emotions on a Turtle "face".