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Re: Minifig Segway
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:14:39 GMT
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In lugnet.town, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Daniel Patten wrote:
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I’m glad you like it. I know that some Space builders have “motorized”
cars by using magnets (example: here; the YouTube links still work),
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First person I know of who pulled that off was Steve Ringe from MichLUG, and
he did it to have driving cars on a Town/Train layout.
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so maybe something could be done with the Segway, too. The parts I used are
pretty common, so it shouldn’t be hard for someone (with more resources than
myself) to build enough for a tour group something similar
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It might be harder than you think. The Segway is a pretty small model, so I
think the easiest way to pull that off would be to go a bit lower tech, like
Matt DeLanoy’s Mos Eisley diorama where all the landspeeders and such were
mounted directly to train cars running under the layout, by way of axles that
stick up through a narrow gap in the plates.
See, the magnet trick is really suited more for a four-wheel vehicle. Unless
you’re willing to use non-LEGO parts, you need room to fit magnet bricks
inside the body, plus rubber tires don’t handle turns very well (but there’s
one tire style that you can get in standard rubber tire that fits a plastic
wheel, or as a one-piece hard plastic design). With a two-wheel design,
there’s no way it’d follow the turns properly without sticking the magnet way
out in front, and if you link them together you really need those
hard-plastic tires. If, however, you mount them directly to the cars,
they’ll always stay pointing in the same direction as the train cars, and
turns will never be a problem. You will, of course, have to build that
section of ground yourself, unless you want to cut slots in roadplates.
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I see I neglected to mention that I’d already considered much of what you said,
and that I was going to leave the nitty-gritty figuring-out to someone else. : )
I appreciate your insight, though.
I’ve been thinking of the possibility of rigidly connecting two Segways
front-to-back to make what would be, for practical purposes, a four-wheel
vehicle, but I hadn’t previously thought of the trouble that rubber tires would
have in turns. Could you point me to that hard-plastic one you mentioned?
I also like that train-car idea. I might have to try it sometime.
Daniel Patten
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| (...) Sure, this is the new wide rubber tire that you regularly see on town vehicles these days: (URL) should be the exact same style, but made entirely from plastic (and there's also a thin ridge running down the center of the tread): (URL) I also (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) First person I know of who pulled that off was Steve Ringe from MichLUG, and he did it to have driving cars on a Town/Train layout. (...) It might be harder than you think. The Segway is a pretty small model, so I think the easiest way to pull (...) (15 years ago, 18-Jul-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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