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Victoria M2 asked Ben Wilson commented

How do I make the conveyor release one item at time?

I want to create a buffer of five items in a conveyor and then when the sixth item arrives, the conveyor releases the first item in it.

I tried to do to it by using a custom conveyor, in the slug Builder section, but the thing is it only releases all at once.

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tannerp answered Benjamin W2 commented

@victoria.m2,

You can control the input/output ports on the conveyor to release one item at a time. I created an example of this where any time an item exits the conveyor, a trigger is fired that closes the conveyor's output port. The output is re-opened when you press the button in the dashboard. (Just an example; you can trigger the opening of the output port however you'd like.)

open and close conveyor output.fsm


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Benjamin W2 avatar image Benjamin W2 commented ·

Looks like Tanner beat me to the punch! Here is another example model with 2 slightly different implementations.5Conveyor.fsm

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