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I like the idea, especially as a prototype, also your couplers. But the loc looks a bit unfinished especially when I compare it to your fine cars! B.t.w. how do you recharge the lipo? I was also looking at a custom battery, especially also for 7760 like shunters.

Indeed I saw that one too!

Very nice Dutch, I will print them tonight or tomorrow and will see how they will turn out (request from SandMirror as well ;)). OK to post the results here?

Well, I just got a major update of bricks etc. What has changed? I did not see any changes but it costed 133 Mb so there should be some changes I guess :)

What module do you mean?! For BLE you mean? I have two types from RedBearLabs, and a recent one from Dr. Michael Kroll.

I think PLE or ABS (of course) is best for 3d printing, resolution is still an issue of course.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

if course there is also quite some non-Fabuland stuff there including the Airport Shuttle Monorail battery box!!!

very nice :) I like your sunflowers very much!

I'm busy trying to create stickers for it and then release within two weeks or so BNSF / Santa Fe (Super Chief) / Union Pacific stickers, most on transparent with white ink backing, the fans will include metallic and some santa fe stickers too. The BNSF and Santa Fe stickers are finished but need to produce more of them (that is not very hard but last school year I was very busy with teaching and finishing my masters so getting our new printing machine up and running was a challenge ;))

It would be stupid from LEGO to not connect western to there theme line again, the only thing is that the licensed sets are more expensive... But yesterday my wife and I built the old western sets that we got from ebay some years ago, what struck me is that they were some of the only fine sets from 1997 when LEGO brought about there stupid cars with large bricks and eventually moved towards jack stone etc. Those are very neat sets aren't they?! LEGO should consider more themes like that. Too bad they did not use the fabulous western cuusoo set idea until now. "The Modular Western Town project conflicts with an ongoing project at the LEGO Group. As a result, the project does not meet the business case requirements and it has not passed the LEGO Review.", they might however consider it when lone ranger is over... The Lone Ranger line is only meant for one line of sets I think: it includes the most important things from the movie afaik.

One doesn't need to operate the points using IR, but one can easily choose to! I'm working on a system with the iPhone / iPad using BLE (Blue tooth low energy). Is indeed in the Jaarbeurs this year (unfortunately for me since I leave near Zwolle). I also use servo's for signals (arm signals that is) b.t.w. but then I use a very tiny linear version. I have experimented with memory / shape alloy wire but that was not good enough.

Very nice indeed!!!

That costed you a lot of work and building it will cost a lot of LEGO I think :) impressive, very impressive :) Hope they will also sell Erdinger in the castle ;)

nice idea! how does it work?!

nice work! can you also provide us with an original picture?

nice job, could even go for an original set from that era!!!

indeed, that is why I use very small servo's not from LEGO...

Well, conrad is quite expensive, clones can be bought from dealextreme. Apart from that I have my Dutch stores of course. For LEGOWorld 2013 in Utrecht I want to have a PF remotely operated train layout with Arduino and so that is what I will work on this vacation ;) The only thing you really need to do is receive the PF signal from your PF remote (using a simple IR receiver, it is some kind of transistor), there are great libraries for that, I can supply them of course :) I do it the other way around b.t.w. just using an IR LED. So I let the trains be controlled from the Arduino (with another nice Arduino library). I promised to write articles on it in rail bricks, so also need to finish those in the vacation :)

I prefer using Arduino and a 3$ china made servo. It works very, very well... Here are my building instructions for that kind of servo: http://www.ministickers.nl/shop/instructions/instructions-arduino-point-controller.html Here video from a decoupler using the exact same technology: Hope to upload more next week in my vacation :) Ps for normal points there is NO modification required! For cross points it also works well, but one needs to modify the points a bit.

Nice job Bill! Very nice indeed. I was just this week watching some movies about american railways.

Well, my brother in law will be glad to ship a truckload to them ;) but it was just an example, maybe a truckload of earl grey tea with some LEGO boxes will also work, or something else...

yes, this stuff: Dutch version of course, it is even sold on amazon.com but goes around the world...

maybe you can put it in a container, or ask companies that ship to there, e.g. my brother in law ships waffles all around the world, there probably always is some space left on top of the waffles to put some LEGO boxes on it...

you did it again konjara, leaving us puzzled, astonished and drooling ;) Will you display them in Utrecht in October?!