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Re: motorized cars?
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:29:22 GMT
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In article <I1zv9G.Iox@lugnet.com>, "Russell Clark" <rclark@telis.org>
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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!)
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> > I've thought of a couple of vague ideas:
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> > - 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
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> > ...but I'm not particularly happy with any of these. Any other ideas or
> > experience to share?
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> Not LEGO, but there is a huge HO-scale train layout in Germany that has
> thousands of computer controlled cars driving around the layout:
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> http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/html2/framepage.htm
That's very cool! Any idea how they work?
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| (...) if you're good with babelfish you might be able to puzzle out www.faller.de (go to HO, then to car-system) to figure out how they work. I'm guessing but I think they have internal batteries, they go to spots and stop because their magnet (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Not LEGO, but there is a huge HO-scale train layout in Germany that has thousands of computer controlled cars driving around the layout: (URL) to Pictures, then Carsystem-gallery. Very amazing stuff. Russell BayLTC (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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