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Subject: 
RE: Lego trains and the RCX
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:16:27 GMT
Original-From: 
Tilman Sporkert <tilman@^StopSpammers^activesw.com>
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If you just want to turn the trains on and off, without speed control from the
RCX, you can build a relay out of a motor, and a Lego switch. Run the trains
from the train controller through the switch. Hook up a motor to the RCX to move
the switch.

Tilman



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  Re: Lego trains and the RCX
 
(...) What's needed in this case, I think, is a relay actuator or something similar. Basically, what you're looking at is a two-wire wire brick, one (the trigger wire) that goes to the RCX and operates a switch or "gate" and another (the supply (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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