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Re: Creating a GBC for a train layout
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Wed, 4 Jan 2006 02:25:05 GMT
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On Tue, January 3, 2006 7:06 pm, Brian Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> > There would be a few automated stations where the train(s) would stop,
> > unload, load, and move on. At the station would be a predefined
> > set of GBC modules.
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> Technical Q: Steve, the cylinders bumping the train width out to 8-wide work
> great for detecting. Would they still be acceptable to the train clubs? Needing
> an 8-wide track limits us some, but... it works so well.
Some clubs build 8 wide trains. We could be one. :)
Actually, many the trains have decoration that sticks out that wide. I've had to
make changes to the engines I'm using so they don't trigger the train sensor. That
won't be a problem.
> > > it has been discussed having some sort of force-feedback joystick
> > > controlling a GBC crane module of some sort so passers-by can
> > > control the action to some extent.
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> > I like this (and want to do it), but it's the kind of thing that
> > may end up in the "GBC" section, not the "Train" section.
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> Even a button to push to turn on or off (temporarily) a module would be fun
> for kids. Or a visible switch that could be controled to shunt balls from one
> descending path to an alternative (I've been playing with that idea for a while
> now, making a game of "how to get a ball into slot X" by throwing various
> switches...
That could be interesting.
Steve
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| (...) Absolutely. I was thinking more along the lines of how many clubs could allow us to "rent track" through their layout if we used 8-wide? I'm still trying to figure out how to run two trains on one track and *ABSOLUTELY* not collide them - (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| (...) Agreed. (...) Yes. I've got this on most of my modules, but would develop it a lot more for a train layout. At ChiBots I even had one minifig who had fallen off of the top level, and was being held over the roiling ball stream below only by (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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