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Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points)
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:49:06 GMT
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This is a little off-topic, but hey, you knew that when you saw who wrote it.
At the show this weekend, I started thinking, "Wouldn't it be neat to have a
mindstorms monorail station that stopped each train for about 20 seconds,
made the ding-dong chime like the DC metro, and then set it going again?"
Tonight I did make a motorized controller for one of those monorail stops.
I didn't think it could do it, but with the right gearing it CAN turn the stop.
It's a little bulky, though, and I haven't even gotten to the problem of
telling the train's in the station (switch? light sensor?) and, well, the
platform I built today to go along with it has become more interesting
architecturally than the stop is technically, and I'm thinking it would be
cool as part of a bus depot, so, well, the bottom line is the darn thing
works and I doubt I'll use it because it would detract from what's starting
to shape up into a cool building. If people want info, though, I can
provide it, and maybe take a photo eventually.
Peter
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| (...) I bought those ZNAP sets for this exact purpose. I tried building automated points with the older motor, but as someone had mentioned, it just didn't have the torque. So I got some ZNAP motor packs and now it works great. I used the direct (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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