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Re: Drive in Theater and wireless Camera in Monorail/Train
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:20:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Paul Janssen wrote:
> For the last 3 shows, my Drive-in Theater wa part of the layout:
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> after moderation: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=60505
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> depp link Theater:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Wireless/dsc03831.jpg
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> It is a shell for a laptop computer (Mac, G4, 17 inch screen). At the first two
> shows, we ran a powerpoint presentation of MOCs' from ourselves, but also from
> other clubs and individuals (your MOC may have been there too!). It was a slide
> show of about 25 mocs, with a 30 second movie taken at GATS earlier this year
> (MichLug). The last show (GATS, Dayton), we hooked it up to a wireless camera
> mounted in a monorail:
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> Front: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Wireless/dsc00753.jpg
> Back : http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Wireless/dsc00755.jpg
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> It runs of a 9 V battery, which was easily replacable. It turned out this was
> not needed, it hardly uses energy, and lasted the whole weekend. It was tons of
> fun. We also let it loose on the train loop, we simply put the entire monorail
> car on a plate, but lack of better/time. We only have 1 fuzzy pic:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Wireless/dsc00705.jpg
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> but you get the idea. Next show I will have a caboose that can hold the monorail
> car, so we can quickly change them without having to build the camera in and
> out.
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> Paul
What a fabulous idea ... the drive is fantastic ...I have the exact same camera
... so I should copy this idea for BeLUG ... I've tried it on my home layout ...
and it works fine ... now all you need is to hook it up to a projector and beam
it to a screen above the display too ... excellent
SteveH (BeLUG)
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