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Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:15:04 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:
> Actually, in that vein, I was thinking about something: The best train layouts
> I've seen have *action* occuring in them, not just trains running around. With
> the absolutely beautiful engines available to us, why not have a fire going on?
> I'm sure someone (heck, I'll do it) could build a building in the process of
> burning, and the firefighters could be, well, trying to put it out.
Ahh, now this got my heart a-pumpin'!! While talking with Joe at the last meeting,
I had been describing my woes about how I have motors and wires and enough stuff to
make some very hip motorized devices, but never any inspiration. Well, here it
is! The mechanical engineer in me suddenly had a head full of the following:
Imagine the output from a single regular motor geared down, and then split. One
shaft could have a whole series of cams on it that would makes flames rise and fall
inside a building - imagine the scene with lego trans-orange flames licking all
around the inside of every window in a building. Another output could go to a
turntable on the roof, where a panicked resident is running in perpetual circles.
I can even envision a mechanism whereby someone inside the building comes to a
window and throws a suitcase out (saving his/her valuable) - the suitcase falls to
the ground, maybe behind a vehicle or some shrubbery or something, where it lands
on a conveyor belt that whisks it back inside and back up to the window just in
time for the person's next appearance at the window. A whole show being enacted by
a single power source, elegantly assembled. Maybe the whole mechanism can be
visible from one side of the building, sort of a "peek into the innards"? I'll be
doing a "feasability study" this weekend [insert nerdy laugh here].
Ooh! We can even throw in some fiber optics for flickering light!
Well, it looks like I am raising my hand and saying I'd like to do a burning
building.
So this is what people did before Mindstorms ... ;)
-s
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 | | Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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| (...) Wow! Excellent ideas! I have to admit, I was pretty much just thinking of a static setup for the burning building, sort of "implied" action- but this is light-years better! And the fiberoptic addition is a stellar idea. With moving (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
| | | Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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| (...) To make this really spooky, use magnets. The GMLTC has an ore carrier that runs with magnetic power, the LEGO magnets are powerful enough to work through 2 layers (one plate, one tile) and there is a mechanism below them that moves around, the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Greenburg Show Dec 2nd & 3rd in Wilmington MA
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| (...) Actually, in that vein, I was thinking about something: The best train layouts I've seen have *action* occuring in them, not just trains running around. With the absolutely beautiful engines available to us, why not have a fire going on? I'm (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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