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Yes, they are brighter, the diffuser in the brick helps a bit to spread the light though. The link to the original LEDs I got died, so not sure the best place to get LEDs currently, but the bulb replacement suggested by Alain is still there if you want to try with bulbs - https://www.conrad.com/p/barthelme-21101240-micro-filament-lamp-727091

Pictures are back now!

Hi Evans, Sorry, this is totally my fault, I'm hosting the pictures myself and in the middle of a house move, so server has been offline since Thursday until I can get my line restored.

Neither are the red wheels (now)

Ah, that is what I first thought, getting confused So do you have plans to try running the Brick Automation Project on a Pi with Mono compiler or similar?

Ah, OK, so the PuP hubs are reprogrammed in effect? Therefore no need for external laptop or raspberryPi once setup.

@treczoks Looking forward to any progress updates! @Protez1982 Your motor control L298N must be smaller than the ones they used to sell to fit nicely into that tender

Really enjoyed your train and videos. Great loco, carriages and bridge building. The giant spiral collapsing track is a classic!

This is very nicely done! Curious, what OS and C# compiler did you use on the Raspberry Pi ?

Who would want to argue with a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy with Centipede tender. Happy rolling. My biggest sin is wanting light grey track, I may never be forgiven for this... I note that if you are really hardcore purist, according to this definition, then all PF elements are soon to be off the table for PuP only, and you have long been unable to use 9v or 12v elements for a long long time. Mixing eras is one of the biggest fun elements for me, so not an option for me. You are the wisest of us. IP theft worries many people in many industries, it won't just go away, and is a bigger issue than either the musings of us train heads or the narrow commercial interests of TLC.

Oh wow, pretty damn close, perhaps a shade lighter, I haven't dabbled in Lepin but they do seem to have gone the extra mile in making more exact clones. I did forget about Lepin, I was going more off what Enlighten and Ausini come out with in my comment. I wonder what the Lepin Horizon Express orange is like, even if it was slightly off though it would drive me nuts mixing the bricks with LEGO stuff.

Not marketplace but http://www.blokbricks.com/ has nice stuff, especially if you like Dutch trains, and some that are reasonably priced. I got the cattle wagon before the one in the official cargo set, nicer too.

I assume you've seen the 4DBrix documentation at https://www.4dbrix.com/documentation/arduino/ Great project Cosmik, years ago I started on a similar idea (https://github.com/Gumphrie/bcc) with @Asperworking on a Raspberry Pi but didn't get much further than sBrick and Brickster support. The idea was to provide a web interface for controlling the trains that could then work on any wifi networked screen such as an old iPad, then my Raspberry Pi blew up and I didn't get much more time for the project. Don't know anyone beyond @codefox421 and @legoman666 who actually built the Brickster modules, which are highly compact open source BT receivers. We had lots of fun attempting to fit them into the tiny 3x4 brick case (https://www.shapeways.com/product/RMEMYNGSK/brickster-case?li=search-results-1&optionId=43490793) without severing the contacts, but they can be put in a 4x4 brick.

I'm loving that door handle feature as well as the train! Which piece is that?

Wow, really nice build, thanks for making and sharing such clear instructions!