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Stuff I've been working on
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Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:37:46 GMT
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I built a small hardware store front with covered loading bay. It's mostly
blue and sits on two metro station square raised platforms. I added six
studs between them to extent the foot print. Nothing exciting, this one will
just need details, minifig...
There is also a light house for the layout now. I'm not sure I like it but
it is good enough to display. It is white and has 6 sides, 4-studs each,
with several blue spiral stripes. For the light housing I used 4
trans-oragne (ugly as sin) 3-angled corner windshield-ish pieces seperated
by 1 3-angled 2-stud wide trans-oragne windshield-ish piece on each side.
The foot print of the light housing is 4x4 studs and in the middle bubbles
out to 6x6. Inside the light housing is a 4x4 radar dish with trans-orange
flames in front if it (it helps it look like a light house)... I still need
2 1/4-round white railings for the rail around the outside of the light
housing. My wife thinks that if it was sitting next to 3 road plates with an
airplane on it then it would be an air traffic control tower, hummm...
The best for last... I finally programmed the Decta Controller to control a
trolley line. It senses the trolley at three locations (train
stops/stations) along a track. I assume a linear track rather than a loop.
After spending a somewht random amount of time at each it moves to the next.
What's cool is that it randomly chooses which station to go to next e.g.
1-2-3-2-3-2-1-3-2-3-1... the 1-3 implies that the trolley blows thru the
stop (2) in the middle). When it arrives at any stop it beeps with the
appropriate number of times. Before pulling out of each stop it beeps again.
Also while at the stop it can run motors... I just have a motor spining for
now, but using the coo-coo clock model, I was thinking of sticking some mini
figs on a rotating plater so they come out of and back into a station...
The trolley I'm using is a 9v based on the red trolley by Chris at
http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/Engine%20gallery/engine_gallery.ht
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SteveB
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| What's the URL for the lighthouse? (...) I don't chime in much in this group, but I'm always amazed by how much you guys know and what you can build. I have only been in LEGO trains for about 3 months. Right now I have 2150 station, 4532 crossing, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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