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New BuWizz event - BuWizz Gathering 2025! July 18-20, same place as 2022-2024, Idrijska Bela, Slovenia. Come to Slovenia and have fun with bricks and fellow AFOLs, participate in competitions and enjoy the beautiful scenery. Families welcome. Combine your visit with vacation in Slovenia or near by Croatia or Italy (Istria and Venice are about 2 hours by car from Idrija). More info here: https://buwizz.com/buwizz-gathering-2025/

Very interesting. Netherlands added electronic toys & smart watches to the list of devices. Though technically this measure is not a law yet - it still needs to pass through both houses of parliament, so wording and/or effective date could change. Anybody knows about changes to EU USB-C Directive in other EU countries? Maybe the next EU Directive will demand EV DC fast charging port on mobile devices with 240 kW, not just 240 W

Can you please list the source of this information? As far as I can find, Directive (EU) 2022/2380, which comes into effect Dec 28 2024, specifically lists following devices MUST have USB-C port for charging: "Handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, earbuds, and laptops" I am not a lawyer, but I don't see how any of the TLG products would need USB-C as per this Directive... There is no mention of toys, education devices, construction toys. Also no mention of drones, quadcopters, RC models or any other remote controlled vehicles, etc. Directive (EU) 2022/2380 text: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2380

Maybe Spielwarenmesse? It is going on right now; Jan 30 - Feb 3.

New BuWizz event! July 8-9, same place as last year, Idrijska Bela, Slovenia. Come to Slovenia and have fun with bricks and fellow AFOLs, participate in competitions and enjoy the beautiful scenery. More info here: BuWizz Gathering 2023 Racing Brick and at least 30 other AFOLs are coming!

Admission deadline: 1.8., also for spectators. 10€/day fee includes food & drinks.

Finally a new BuWizz event! Due to Covid restrictions it has been 3 years since the last event. Come to Slovenia and have fun with bricks and fellow AFOLs, participate in competitions and enjoy the beautiful scenery. Sariel and Racing Brick are coming! More info here: https://buwizz.com/buwizz-camp-2022/

Hi all, I get your message about lack of support and you are right. BuWizz is no longer a prototype it was back on Kickstarter, user base has grown and we did not scale our resources accordingly. This is changing now. This is where we are: - BuWizz hardware is OK (the issues like protection shutting down outputs too soon is firmware related, so solvable with upgrade) - BuWizz software lacks features, there are connection issues - Support is not adequate, feeling of neglect in the community - Lack of upgrades - Lack of direction where BuWizz is going What we are doing and where we are going: - Software on both iOS & Android with customizable control profiles is being released now - Software with programmable interface (=where you can set mixers, power curves, sequential motion, etc.) is in alpha testing, soon to go into beta (for now on Android) - We are working on connection issues on per-phone model basis (mostly an issue on some android phones) - Open source BuWizz demo app (with sources for Bluetooth communication, control screen, etc.) is already on GitHub since January, we just did not advertise it https://github.com/BuWizz/BuWizz-Android-Demo - Bluetooth comm protocol will be part of open source release (the protocol is still being upgraded, but the current command set can easily be found in source code) - We are working on several add-on modules (this is why the white connector is for) - we will pre-announce them soon (here we will need your help to figure out which modules would benefit you most) - We are overhauling all internal processes (i.e. technical support, community support, website, competition support) to make them streamlined & scalable (yes, I confess, support is a mess right now) - We are expanding our team to handle all the above (and more) Please be patient for a bit longer. We will announce several new things next month, including new add-on modules, software features, competitions, etc. We will not let BuWizz fade to oblivion, quite the contrary! Regards Roni

Hi all, We are organizing a BuWizz Truck Trial event weekend with family picnic on june 9 - 10 You are all invited! More info here: https://buwizz.com/buwizz-truck-trial/

The two runner ups are: Rally Fighter by Chawn J and Buwizz Jantayg by Gusztáv Jantay They both received same number of votes from the jury, so they share the 2nd place and both won 2x BuWizz! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And of course congratulations and big thanks to all participants. There vere many good cars and excellent videos!

We are ready to announce The winner of BuWizz fast car competition: Lego Technic buggy jumping over 2 meters! powered by Buwizz 2.0 by Marxpek CONGRATULATIONS!!! Marxpek won the first prize - LEGO Bugatti Chiron 42083. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1jy_Hcl6K0

I agree the voting system is not perfect, but what system is? This is why we have a two tier system, voting + jury. We wanted to keep things as simple as possible - simple rules, simple voting - but this is not easy to achieve. - We used an established voting platform. The "change IP to cast more votes" is true, but there is no system where a workaround is impossible. We could have used EB voting (we will consider this for next time) or some other login-based system. But then again, people who are more popular & have more followers would probably automatically get more votes, so somebody else might get left out & declare the voting unfair... - The rules are simple, but looks like we will need to add more rules next time We decided to stick with the current voting system for this contest. We already did one change (= extending the deadline), which was unfair to people who were ready by the original deadline. Whatever we change now, it will be unfair to somebody...

7 more hours before the voting ends

BuWizz Fast Car Competition updates: 1. Per jury suggestion we removed one video from contest - a tracked vehicle - for violating contest rules (i.e. not a car, not able to jump,...). 2. We received a complaint about possible foul play in a video. After careful examination, the jury concluded there was no violation, so no action was taken against the contestant. We wanted to make the rules as simple as possible, but we now realize more rules might be needed in the future to better define what is allowed and what is not. Don't forget: - public voting is open till May 10 24:00 PDT - winner(s) will be selected by jury and announced on May 19

Ah, OK. We will delete the video. Glad we solved it