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...with strictly a trains motivation of course ;) I have taken a break over the holidays and done some bricking - partially inspired by what the kids built recently. See here: (URL) it's not perfect yet, but I'd like your opinions on the modular (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II
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(...) Bluetooth is indeed probably way too expensive and complex. Perhaps the costs would go down, but probably not enough to make this cost-effective. There are cheaper radio systems, like 804.15.4 (ZigBee) that would make more sense than Bluetooth (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II
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(...) It could, but I'm not sure what the increase in cost would be. IR is extremely mature technology, and can be done without and special hardware; very, very cheap, yet (within its limitations) fairly robust (especially LEGO implementation of it, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II
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(...) Ohh...my wife and I have a deal, I can have as many steam engines as she has animals. (+1, which I had before her!). So, at present I have 2 large engines here. There's a 3rd one that I part own, but it isn't here...hence, it doesn't count. (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Self assembly wheels
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I know these aren't exactly new, but I just got my first sets as part of the Hobby train. I didn't build the krocodile fromt he printed instructions and when I got to the wheelset I wasn't sure if they had axles or not. Referring to the instructions (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II
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(...) <snip> (...) Very good! That is exactly what I was thinking. I work a lot with AVR's, too, so I'm happy to see you made the "right" choice in microcontrollers :) -dave (18 years ago, 27-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rutland Gondola
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(...) Nice car. My only suggestion is that you might want to take a black magic marker and go around the edges of the stickers after cutting but before application. Benn (18 years ago, 23-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | One Day Show Sunday
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Well, we are all set up for our winter one day show, and we have a few new surprises in store to boot! If you can't make it by, look for pics right after Christmas! JOHN (18 years ago, 23-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: My attempt at a railway bridge
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(...) Ha, I had to build a bridge to complete my current layout- (URL) It's a suspension bridge, as it takes a oodle of parts to make any other total lego solution to 3+ m bridges. James Powell (18 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Rutland Gondola
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(...) [...] (...) [...] (...) Great gondola Elroy. I can't wait to see it. Chris (18 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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