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Re: [Fwd: Mindstorm Mall Tour looking for a few good LUGs]
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lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:12:06 GMT
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Paul Gyugyi <gyug@hotmail.#antispam#com>
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I like the ideas, especially the dump station.
I am thinking of maybe using the white droid DDK microscout
one a tipper car, and the blue Scout on the side of the track.
When the Scout sees a car is next to it, it sends VLL led
messages to turn the microscout on and off, tipping the car.
The droid microscout is smaller, only 6 studs wide,
so should fit on a train car better than an RCX.
You would need two cars, one for the microscout, one for
the tipper car, connected by a universal joint.
Can an RCX power the train tracks? It would be nice to
slow down/stop the train when it gets near the dump station.
-gyug
> From: lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf@lugnet.com (Ran Talbott)
> Reply-To: ba-lego@cinnamon.com
> To: ba-lego@cinnamon.com
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Mindstorm Mall Tour looking for a few good LUGs]
> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:05:16 GMT
>
> gyug@hotmail.com (Paul Gyugyi) wrote in <LAW-
> F218qgNjWOiy54D00000e3c@hotmail.com>:
>
> > Any ideas for an RIS controlled train display?
>
> How 'bout a layout with:
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> 1. RCX-controlled level crossing.
> 2. RCX line follower whose path goes through the level crossing.
> 3. RCX-controlled train with a few tipper cars.
> 4. Soccer ball mine with an RCX-run loader that puts balls in the cars.
> 5. RCX-controlled dump station that empties the tippers.
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> There are some non-trivial problems in this project, which should make it
> interesting for the display. But, a lot of the work on the sub-projects
> can be done independently. And the line follower and/or level crossing
> could be dropped without much damage if there's not enough horsepower to do
> everything.
>
> I have some doubts about the feasibility of coordinating the RCXs. Anybody
> got experience getting them to communicate with one another?
>
> Ran
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