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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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| (...) ,---...---. | Joseph J. Strout Check out the Mac Web Directory: | | joe@strout.net (URL) | `---...---' (20 years ago, 5-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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| (...) hello Maybe I will get some of this set. what you all think will be fair price (it cost 19$ on the airline). thanks Gil (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Here is an example with a motorized bus drives itself. (URL) Schickele (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Cool? Yes (there was certainly a lot of excited chatter on the MichLUG list after Steve posted a video of the cars "driving" past each other). Simple? Sure, on paper, maybe, but in practical application its a bit more complicated. There are a (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) I forgot this one: (URL) (and other pictures in the same folder) where Ross Neal used pneumatic tubing around pulleys to make a 2-wide train move. I've seen this one in person, it's pretty slick! Everyone in the GMLTC wonders where Ross gets (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) JT already spoke of MichLTC's (actually, our resident wizard, Steve Ringe's) work. GMLTC had mine trucks that followed a chain drive underneath a baseplate/tile layer, Magnets provided the connectivity. Eric Brok had this same thing for (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.legoworld)
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| (...) The GMLTC did this on our previous layout. You can just see our 'quarry' dump truck to the right of the famous blue locomotive: (URL) had a technic chain set up around several gears, with a magnet that pulled the truck around the circle. It (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) I think the MichLTC folks had a car that ran around with a magnet under the road attached to a train engine on a loop. Seemed like a very cool and simple solution to making cars move. jt (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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