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That is obvious indeed! Sound, a light sensor, smart motor. Hope LEGO will shrink the DUPLO PCB and allow it to fit in a 4x something size housing. But the advantage of Duplo is obviously that there is much more space!

Very nice @brick-builds, even though maybe you could sub title the video so people that don't speak German can also understand. Did you print the driving rods yourself? Especially the front part is nice (the one shifting back and forth). Still some details missing around the engineers cabin? I guess you guys will still attend to that?

Looks very nice @Murdoch17. Good find those eyes make it really look like the one from the book.

Nice one @Paperinik77pk. Will be probably costly to build in real life.

Very smart and elegant solution for modern freight trains!

And it doesn't disconnect with a LEGO remote or? I did some tests using a Raspberry Pi with Python and it seems to hold it's connection well.

i just saw an article about it on a Dutch geek site (tweakers.net) with the video as seen above. Comes from Nintendo so not a leak but more like a teaser.

Hehe, good point :) @davidzq, you might already know this, but an LED is a diode (light emitting diode = LED) which is an electrical part that allows current to flow only into one direction, that is why changing polarity allows to activate one LED or the other. I always use that trick for the headlights. I made a custom PCB for the signals of the Crocodile, setting it into one direction enables the yellow lights, setting it in reverse enables the red lights.

I think it is about the time kids go to high school or during the first years of high school.

Binary means that is virtually impossible to see what information is in it for humans (as it is a great format for computers but not readable for normal humans even those that are familiair with it. It might be that the file is divided into sections e.g.). Maybe some LDraw guru's know more about it.

Very cool! @Jim Qt is in the Embedded World quite a prominent standard. It is e.g. also used for creating car UI interfaces. It takes up a lo of space though so I removed it, but my colleagues use it to teach C and C++.

The problem with it is that it seems to be a binary file. I think it is damaged too much :s

Very nice Hippel (as that is how the Dutch version is often called) instantly recognizable.

I think it will be very unlikely that you can recover it. You could try to use WinRar (I don't have Windows at the moment so couldn't try): https://www.minitool.com/news/repair-corrupted-rar-zip-files.html

I haven't seen it before, but it would be doable, creating basically an oscillating circuit like the 12V level crossing box. Either use an NE555 or go for something like this I would say: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/45505/transistor-alternating-between-multiple-leds You could also check this:

Well and a lot of spoiled children: Quite some kids here are probably very ungrateful compared to Latvian kids. But the idea to stimulate kids is a good one, better than all those pointless videogames.

Indeed LEGO has been and still is very popular in The Netherlands. My dad (1951-2016) already had LEGO when he was a child, long before the ABS era. I don't know any child in our family and friend circles that did/does not have Duplo or LEGO. Of course most of them end up in their dark ages around their teenage years, but still. We have a number of LUG's and still NL is quite small with only 17 million inhabitants. LEGO is also very popular in Germany and Belgium. LEGO events are even organized by local communities (that do not have an AFOL link). Also the FIRST LEGO League is very popular in most parts of the country / BeNeLux (biggest in NL). I think it has to do with a number of factors, relatively high income rates, parents that focus on kids having useful toys that are suitable for both playing and learning. The toys also last long and can be combined over and over again.

Really nice indeed! Now we can finally integrate a Pi into LEGO builds without being accused of 'impurities' ;)

Maybe you should look into Curcuit cube (it is not LEGO, but compatible). Faller e.g. uses wires and a magnet to steer the wheels.

They use solvent printers (basically large format inkjet printers). I assume they don't do it themselves but they hire sign makers to do it, there is a lot of difference in quality, some stickers fall apart (even if they were never applied). As the head cannot print every color at once you sometimes see small alignment differences, especially if the belt that drives the head of the printer is getting older. Also the head might not have been calibrated well if there are bigger issues.

Gentle reminder that this topic is about DB V60 in 12V style and not a gathering of computer geeks ;) Even though I think that a love for LEGO Trains and (embedded) computer systems makes perfect sense :)

Yup. that is what I thought :)

I just read the newest issue of rail hobby (a Dutch periodical about model and 'real' trains). 99 6102 from Henschel, a German WW1 army lok: https://www.hsb-wr.de/Unternehmen/Fuhrpark/Dampflokomotiven/99-6101-99-6102/ For those not proficient in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWE_Nos._6_and_7 Narrow gauge (obviously as that is typical for field train operations as used in WW1). Also very a very 'LEGO-like' locomotive.

It is for sure they based those gray era trains on European steam engines, but they made variations on them. Not sure if they represent real "Baureihe" series trains from Germany, for sure that Germany has had and still has quite an influence on the design and build of real Steam engines in the twentieth century. They even still have a working factory to revise steam engines (https://www.dampflokwerk.de)

Very nice project Milan! How hard can it be for a true LEGO fan to switch from ABS to 'real' bricks. Too bad you weren't able to find stone bricks with studs, But seems the mortar did the trick too.