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Subject:	idea: beginner's (non-Train) electronics kit
Newsgroups:	lugnet.parts, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:02:45 GMT
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I'm looking to add some simple electronics to my LEGO layouts -- a porch light here, a motorized gizmo there, nothing fancy. I don't want to invest in a train set just yet. But apparently, buying only from LEGO.com, there is no way to do what I want -- the only useful electronics sold these days are in train sets or robotics sets. A kind poster in lugnet.parts recommended the following items: (In article <I29718.wHB@lugnet.com>, "Rob Hendrix" <rob.removebeforesending@msltc.org> wrote:) > Power supply: > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=70931 > > Train speed regulator (to connect power supply to LEGO wires): > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2868b > > Reversing switch: > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6551 > > Smallest LEGO motor (extreme low speed, not much torque - there are other > motors, not as small): > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2986 > > Light brick: > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6035 > > Example of LEGO wire (many sizes are available): > http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=5306bc015 I see a good opportunity here for a third-party reseller. You could buy a number of train sets, break them up, and put together a "electronics starter kit" that would have the basics like the above for a reasonable price. The rest of the parts of course you would sell to other enthusiasts (I'm sure the train folks need an extra train motor for example). LEGO is really missing the boat on this one, in my opinion -- if you look at the dollhouse hobby, for example, you can buy all sorts of nifty lights and wire up a house for $20 starting from nothing. A LEGO town isn't that different from an elaborate dollhouse in its electronics needs, but there is nobody serving this market. If anybody knows of a kit like this already for sale, please let me know, because I'd like to buy it! Thanks, - Joe ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout Check out the Mac Web Directory: | | joe@strout.net http://www.macwebdir.com | `------------------------------------------------------------------'

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		Re: idea: beginner's (non-Train) electronics kit
And I would recommend the following be added to your list as well Electric plates - 5037 that way you can more easily hide things, the wires work but it's hard to sometimes hide them (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

		Re: idea: beginner's (non-Train) electronics kit
(...) The thing is, all these Lego light/electric items are really expensive. Single lights will cost $3-5, and a cable will be $2-$4. The transformers and speed regulators you do should not buy at Shop at hom if money is tight, at Bricklink they (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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		Re: basic electronic parts?
"Joe Strout" <joe@strout.net> wrote in message news:I28B4q.10E2@lugnet.com... (...) example, (...) (well-hidden) (...) would (...) know (...) them, (...) smallest (...) Power supply: (URL) speed regulator (to connect power supply to LEGO wires): (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)

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