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I don't think it is a typical EU design: https://www.google.nl/search?biw=1489&bih=917&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=XHUzXPaXLYrRwAKruKu4AQ&q=hopper+train&oq=hopper+train&gs_l=img.3..0l2j0i5i30l3j0i8i30l5.4071.7623..7953...0.0..0.55.512.12......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......35i39j0i67.hPU_KnjKJ30 Most hoppers in the EU (at least in The Netherlands) are quite small. The German railroad has larger ones but most are also small AFAIK:

Very nice work @sed6: you really used those 2x2 round slopes well. Caboose is also excellent. Would the engine also be able to run?

Check out this marvellous 4-4-0 steam train from sed6 with rolling stock from a century ago that is now blazing through Train Tech: Detailed pictures are in this topic, but showing the entire train captures his creation much better than just the engine or car(s).

Very interesting project @Barduck looking forward to the end results!

Nice job kurje, enjoy your stay at Eurobricks and of course happy holidays.

Did someone already find this: https://lego.github.io/lego-ble-wireless-protocol-docs/ it was posted at 1000steine :) (I just saw it was also already in the topic as well).

@Domhnall: this is a topic from 2013, so I guess the original poster @Robr either found a solution or his kids are probably too old for Duplo in the meantime, welcome to Eurobricks but please adhere to the rules.

In principle the peripherals are compatible but not all peripherals are compatible with every hub (most likely because of firmware limits), maybe the newest firmware has fixed something. I can't test it right now because the WeDo / Boost / Powered Up hubs are at school for my students (they made some progress but alas not as much as I hoped).

You could use technic beams (32278 for example), but it is indeed difficult not to get the elevator stuck. I did one recently in my modular hospital and also looked at the Modular Town hall, it works but could work better.

Well I'm not that legalistic about git or something, so SVN is also a super idea I think!

Hmmm, good that you remember me of my promise... I'll try to post it. 1 hub, two motors to each port. But the other solutions are also good ideas although I would not recommend using one port since I don't know the max current limit the motor driver chip has on one port.

But it is the software industries standard nowadays, from Maker movement to Windows / Linux / Webtech / Embedded / Android / iOS programming. So I understand your undertakings are just a hobby but it would be much more beneficial to have everything in one place and not across Eurobricks / 1000steine / whatever.

We could create (or maybe you already did) a git repo for protocol specifications? A fusion between the four platforms (PoweredUP, Wedo 2.0, Boost and Duplo) would also be a good idea I think, but I lack the time because of my other research project and hoped that some students of mine would be picking it up but for now that is not the case.

A fan at 1000steine noticed that LEGO has made most of the separate parts available not (not in stock yet). 88006 Boost Move Hub 80€88009 Hub 50€ (!!!)88010 Remote 23€88008 M Servo motor 17€88011 Train motor 14€(The small WeDo / Batman motor and the Boost Sensors are not listed yet). Well at least they sell separate parts and the motor prices are OK, but 50€ for the hub... Of course the Boost hub has two internal motors etc. but 80€ is half the price of the entire set... Fortunately I got a few PU Hubs from Bricklink at a much better price.

I guess a second service station in town is no problem at all, I try to also target that era (for the entire city and trains): It is a somewhat modular version of the gas station of the Kjeld town centre set and some additions. I actually have built it and it now is part of my town although I still need to do the stickers.

Fits very well in my town, in fact the tow truck is almost identical to mine ;)

Here is my interpretation of a police station, I have built it over the summer holidays. Hopefully it will bring some positive attitude to this topic again :) The police shares their garage with the adjacent hospital that also uses the upper floor for their neonatal care unit ;)

Playmobile did create a Martin Luther figure. But people will be offended no matter what one does. And I don't think LEGO will and should take that risk. Apart from that you still could do it yourself of course, as 'reverend' Smith did with his Brick Testament. But he could make a brick testament without people protesting in the streets etc (it is clearly a selective and more or less moc(k)ing version of the real deal of course). If he would do the same thing of some other religious texts, he would possibly need to fear for his life (see the reaction to e.g. Rushdie), so if people want to MOC that is not big deal but if the company itself would do it that is something else. See also the story about a Dutch AFOL from Zwolle: https://www.destentor.nl/zwolle/doordeweeks-ontwikkelt-hij-software-maar-in-het-weekend-bouwt-hij-bijbelverhalen-met-lego-br-br~a574ac02/ (Google translation version, becoming better but still not too good ;)): He develops software during the week, but during the weekend he builds Bible stories with Lego You work for the boss during the week. You put the alarm clock in the evening and you put four sandwiches in your blue lunchbox in the morning. Elastic band around it. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday. And then the weekend; your hobby becomes your work. You are a referee at football, a victim of a lottery at the first aid, pull the balls at the bingo. Nice. Weekend. Alfred Doorn (47) is stacked on Lego. Just make a stack, stacked up, on pile of. And then on the stack. When you count his Lego trays with stones, you do not believe your eyes: 72. Two! And! Seven! Tig! ,, And then I have eight more with pink blocks, "adds Alfred dryly. "Those are my daughters." Yes, very Doorn's house breathes Lego. His hobby leads to making the Peperbus to scale. A gigantic project. The Zwolle structure will be 1 meter and 80 centimeters high. "At my job - I was working at SallandElectronics at the time - they said: let me see." Alfred takes the Peperbus, in bite-sized blocks, in the car. To his work. He puts the bundle back together again. His colleagues and his manager are impressed. The boss does have a small annotation. "There is still a church attached to it?" To dive Alfred financially goes that far too far. ,, You still have to count on 800 euros ", Alfred adds all the missing blocks together. The company wants to sponsor him and so Doorn has to go to the box, to dive with Lego. Fortunately, he is not alone; his brother, wife, colleagues and friends help. Fifteen men in total. The helpers receive a building plan that they can use. In every corner of his living room, a group of three or four people is ready for work on the building day. In the middle a wallpaper table that is weighed under the many kilos of Lego. What Cologne and Aachen did not succeed, Alfred and his helpers succeed; After one day of toil and sweat, the job is done: the Peperbus has a church. Ark of Noah After he has shown him many times, Alfred is ready. ,, The Peperbus has been demolished '', says the builder. Doorn is looking for a new project in 2011. Zwolle chooses the ten most beautiful Bible stories and Alfred seems to like this top-10 in Lego. Jonah in the whale, the ark of Noah, Moses leading his people through the Red Sea. ,, And I wanted to bring it close to the children. " Doorn seeks contact with Lego and unfolds its plans. He will make the examples and the children may then build their own interpretation of the Bible story. The Bible in cubes. Lego thinks it's a nice idea. For two years, Doorn will borrow four 20 kilograms of bins. In the past years Doorn himself has purchased the much-needed (extra) Lego. At the workshops he gives to children, he only sees happy faces. Alfred puts the elephant belonging to the Ark back on the legs. "I almost see it as a calling," he says. So it seems LEGO does not mind, although I believe he was asked to refrain from adding explicitly the Bible passage certain builds were referring to. I also remember BeLUG having in their policy not to depict religious builds and apparently their rules are based on TLG event policies.

It is indeed Bluetooth Low Energy and works differently / not from the Bluetooth classic menu.

I reproduce the stickers that I like and keep the originals :) Applying stickers would be best by using mild dish washing soup with water to be able to precisely position them.

I don't think leaks are a problem if only AFOL's would be interested in them: we generally buy LEGO anyway. I think the problem are much more copiers from China. Maybe also some of the kids' parents that might not buy the current police station if they know a new one will come out very soon after the holiday season, on the other hand I don't think the latter is a large issue with LEGO as if predetermined to buy LEGO they will before e.g. Christmas and the moments of giving presents are more important than having a 'new' version of some set. For tech companies people holding back is much more problematic I guess.

Looks very neat legoman666, great job!

Very, very nice :) How heavy is it?!

Apparently it is called Sandite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandite

Yups, and would also be nice to not revive a topic from 2014 for only asking for a lxf-file Feichti.