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 Re: Train Spotters
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Date: 
 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:27:59 GMT
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"Peter Edwards" <pe668@beer.com> wrote in message
news:JMLH8o.ACp@lugnet.com...
> Q.  What do spacemen do on their days off?
> A.  Train spotting of course.
> 
> The train spotting triplets are mindstorm controlled by the same brick
> that runs
> the stopping of trains at the main station. I got the idea after seeing
> some
> cows (I only had enough bricks to build one cow)
> 
> On my 2005 layout the mindstorm would control 3 trains on the outer loop,
> stopping them at the station using point motors to switch power.
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~mephisto03/public_html/BodVille/images/mindstorm/point/point3.jpg
> Light dependent resisters detect the trains.
> 
> Recently I have been isolating the track near the station (no power) and
> the
> mindstorm just starts them long enough to push them back onto the powered
> section of the loop. This works much better for long periods.
> 
> Anyway, I edited a movie showing the triplets in action
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pe668/Movies/trainspotters_13meg.wmv
> 
> or low quality YouTube (once moderated)
> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bodville
> 
> 
> There are also some pictures
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pe668/Crazy/100_3376.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pe668/Crazy/100_3382.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pe668/Crazy/100_3374.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pe668/Crazy/100_3375.jpg


That's a novel idea and I'm glad you had the notion to hack and slash your
way through it. ;)
Mmmm, brick modification at its finest.  Bwahahaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

Would look really neat at a tennis match.  Now all you need is a tennis ball
that goes back and forth... :P

-Rob
www.brickmodder.net



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14In lugnet.trains, Rob Hendrix wrote: <SNIP> (...) So much to like about your reply Rob, so glad you took the time, but still too busy to use the delete key? Hack and Slash, well no, but I did enjoy administering the powerdrill enima Tennis? You (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains)

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Q. What do spacemen do on their days off? A. Train spotting of course. The train spotting triplets are mindstorm controlled by the same brick that runs the stopping of trains at the main station. I got the idea after seeing some cows (I only had (...) (19 years ago, 11-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains)

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