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@Mellow: exactly my thoughts.

Time to buy a Raspberry Pi then, works on that afaik, can boot one up to test it (the others that are running don't have a screen connected to it). Apart from that: http://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-electric-train-motor-12v-connecting-rod may work for you then?!

Very nice train indeed Paul!

Read the rules Clayko!

Hi helvet, see these topics: - Duplo Trains discussion - http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/78402-duplo-trains-discussion/&page=9#comment-2585116 Here is a PDF that gives you instructions of of to fix it: http://www.papa-mach-ganz.de/pdf/PapaMachGanz-LEGO-Duplo-Intelli-Lok-Zahnrad-wechseln.pdf

We train fans never seem to have enough track. Scott aka Coaster came up with a great project to produce LEGO compatible tracks that fit a need especially for those that make long cars. Here is what he has in mind: Kickstarter: BrickTracks, additional track geometry for both 9V and PF After several years of work, coaster's track designs are finally ready to come to life. We know past efforts to produce wide radius curves have yielded lackluster results, and have probably left a bad taste with some of you, but I assure you, every effort has been made to guarantee success of this project. Can things go wrong? Of course, but I believe we've made every effort to mitigate those risks. There are also contingency plans in place should things go sideways. I want to stress that I believe us to be on much firmer ground than those previous attempts. This project is being broken up into multiple phases, and this is the beginning of Phase I. The offering is for 1/2 Length and 1/4 Length straights, as well as R56, R72, R88, and R104 curves (with R200 and R328 as stretch goals). All of these pieces are being offered in both all-plastic (PF) and with metal rails (9V). The success of this project will lead to Phase II, which will introduce R104 left- and right-hand switches, as well as special curves and straight segments specifically designed for use with those. The goal for Phase I is only $60,000, which will allow us to purchase the tooling and materials necessary to complete this project. So please, help expand the community's limited track offering: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bricktracks/additional-track-geometries-for-lego-trains Thanks, Scott

The people from MicroView have started another very interesting project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stemtera/stemtera-breadboard-arduino-compatible-built-in-br?token=f47a8bd8 For STEM education the idea is wonderful! I now teach in college but even for promotional activities and first graders it would be very usable.

Very nice, my wife also likes your 'cute' tram very much :)

MOD's now even get an email about spam reports, seems you are on an anti-spam mission makoy haha ;)

And of course we already knew that from the images of the box! Apart from that, if you are into trains: - you will likely already have way too many train (pwm) remote controllers - plenty of battery boxes and even a few LiPo's So a typical train fan will only need a motor and an IR receiver I think in most cases (or lease them during the season from some city train).

@pirzyk: Wow that it is really bad indeed, switch points not having the internals at all making them not function. B.t.w. just for the O-rings: for another (non-LEGO) project I needed O-rings and it turns out companies have them in a lot of different varieties.

Looks very nice indeed Nemo!

Very nice concept. The yellow excavator parts scream for Train applications although I hope LEGO will also release them in different colors.

Haha, will do. But like with computer brands I hope that a little competition keeps our favorite brand awake ;) So: LEGO, please release motor brackets and buffers in red for us! Indeed I think the Chinese are unsure that parents see what their builds represent (I mean, probably most children that would be the main target, will not be able to read English anyway ;), so just to make sure for the parents they put "Train" or "Locomotive" on the engines, how thoughtful)

Maybe join a lug and hope to get them using LugBulk? Apart from that, often 1x4, 1x2, 1x6 in combination should also work of course!

Great work! CrispyBassist nice, creative use of parts :)

Well one can at least say: thumbs up for Ausini for providing a different colors for brackets, buffers and wheels :) Most of the sets are bad copies, but some of them are very nice looking (apart from the quality that probably is not that good), the one from Hugo:

Really nice dsharlet, welcome to Eurobricks b.t.w.!

Great, I didn't know that! But you don't even need Linux for that, every typical microcontroller system will support both UART and i2c of course. Using the Pi UART is not a smart idea however since it will block the basic terminal as far as I know. Makes sense to use a microcontroller at the extension, that is how I do it for other applications (we even use two microcontrollers on one HAT), what would make it a HAT is using a little piece of eeprom and follow some design rules. The idea behind the Pi is not really connecting hardware, but providing a nice embedded and easily usable embedded system with a light weight, versatile operating system, for the hardware it is better to use Arduino-like stuff and then to get best of both worlds, combine them together.

It should work and should not be that difficult even to create a HAT for the Pi that is EV3 or NXT compatible (http://www.smashingrobotics.com/brickpi-control-lego-mindstorms-robots-raspberry-pi/). The sensors and motors are connected using i2c and the Pi has i2c interfaces so not that difficult. One could even control it using Bluetooth of course from the Pi.

Great work Barduck!

Welcome Simon!

Four wide city? Much better in a 6+ wide city, it is very small in reality you know! I have a "coffee lovers" Piaggio Ape myself, inspired on one I saw IRL (something like):

Looks quite nice! Also the detail of the back with the rounded slope! Needed too look very carefully before I understood the shadow ;)

Very nice job! Thanks for even sharing the LXF.