Technology · Item
Signal writer
A chart recorder: powered, it draws the signal it receives on paper; each full sheet becomes a readout.
In the game
How to get it
At the grid: 4 iron sheets, a lens over the pen, copper wire on each side of a coil, a glowing dial: 1 writer (the octo writer takes 2 octo fibres in place of the wire and draws 8 pens). Put paper in it and power it.
What it is for
See how a tank, a battery, the wind or a machine behaves over minutes or hours; keep readouts as cards.
Why it exists
Engineers read curves: the writer turns a factory into a story you can read later.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
How to get it
At the grid: 4 iron sheets (corners), a lens (top middle), 2 copper wires round a coil, a glowing part (bottom middle). The octo writer has 2 octo fibres in place of the wires and reads an octo fibre: eight pens in eight colours.
How it works
- Paper is needed: right-click with paper, or send some by conveyor. No paper, the pen lifts.
- Speeds: 20, 5 or 1 point a second, one per 10 s, one per minute; a sheet is 128 points.
- Up to 16 written sheets are kept in order; take them as readouts and read them by right-clicking in hand: a graduated graph, the values under the mouse.
- Its desk screen shows the sheet being written and the whole history.
- Power 15 W; a Record input lets it write only while that signal is on.
Right-click a block to place it, facing you. Broken, it comes back whole.
On the progress path
EA3Advanced electronicsSide quest
A sub-action of the step OWL-8 microcontroller: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.
- BeforeEA2 · Automate a machine
- This stepEA3 · OWL-8 microcontroller
- NextEA4 · Serial screen