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Re: motorized cars?
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:17:40 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Joe Strout wrote:
Has anyone done anything with motorized cars that drive around the town?
(I mean, anyone besides LegoLand!)

I've thought of a couple of vague ideas:

- magnets under the street that pull the cars along
- a slotted street that guides motorized cars
- robotic cars that follow the center line on the road
- street cars pulled back and forth by a string above the street

...but I'm not particularly happy with any of these.  Any other ideas or
experience to share?

Not LEGO, but there is a huge HO-scale train layout in Germany that has
thousands of computer controlled cars driving around the layout:

http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/html2/framepage.htm

Go to Pictures, then Carsystem-gallery. Very amazing stuff.

Russell

BayLTC



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Has anyone done anything with motorized cars that drive around the town? (I mean, anyone besides LegoLand!) I've thought of a couple of vague ideas: - magnets under the street that pull the cars along - a slotted street that guides motorized cars - (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)

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