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Re: Pics online of VLC's First Meet!
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:58:44 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.vlc, Dean Husby writes:
It will be a train Cam soon. Right now it can drive around the track
forwards and reverse etc. by remote.
But it also has PC control with a track reading system. It knows where it
is on the track and can go to any station I wish. Speeds up slowly, slows
down etc. Headlights always on. The RCX is powered by the track.  Then
the RCX controls the motor.


You're using an RCX to control the RCX on the train via the IR port?
Have you tried using several RCX enabled trains and addressing each
train separately?  That would be 100% pure LEGO DCC!  The only
downside is now that we know you can do it with real LEGO elements,
we (purists) can't use 3rd party DCC :(

KL



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  Re: Pics online of VLC's First Meet!
 
(...) Yes, I've had a basic setup where one was my master and the other was a master/slave. Basically I made it so that the master could contract the other master, find it's location, tell it to join it for a heavy load and then switch to slave (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)

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  Re: Pics online of VLC's First Meet!
 
(...) No problem, we plan on posting pics of all our events. The Next one will have some video too. (...) Yes, it was quite good for the first meet. As for the hoppers and house. That's Kevin's fantastic work. (Well, one hopper is mine.) (...) It (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)

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