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I'm not entirely sure what software we are talking about, but anyway: You can try (if the port is not port A change the letter of course...) hub.Port.A.motor.run_to_position() Source: https://antonsmindstorms.com/2021/01/14/advanced-undocumented-python-in-spike-prime-and-mindstorms-hubs/ Pybricks does work on Linux, take a look here: http://pybricks.com/install/technic-boost-city/#installing-a-compatible-browser

@Lok24 I don't realy get what remoteName does. Has every remote unique name? Oo If not, how should a name I set after the connection is established prevent a connection to an unwanted remote? :|

@vladoniki Yes, a light example can be found here https://docs.pybricks.com/en/stable/pupdevices/light.html If you compair your current program with the light example, you can see in the first line, that you have add "Light" to the import. And then, add the light with port D, like in the example, below or above the motors in your current program. And, again just like in your current program, add another check for a button: if Button.RIGHT_PLUS in pressed: drive_speed += 1000 if Button.RIGHT_MINUS in pressed: drive_speed -= 1000 if Button.LEFT in pressed: light.on(100) if Button.RIGHT in pressed: light.off() Now the light turns on, when you press the left button and goes off if you press the right button. I hope this helps, since I don't have any light :<

@Erik Leppen Everyone always talks about "functions", but to be honest I never realy understood what that means. Are doors of a car a function? Are they a function in the 42115? Becomes everything a function if I move something indirectly? Is a gearbox for switching "functions" by itself a function? Are things only a function if they realy add something to the core of a model (e.g. car doors, chain tensioner,... are never functions)? Gets a function better or worse if I drive them directly with a motor? Is a suspension a function? Is light a function? Is blinking light a seperate function? If you build a dozer and you add a single motor just to drive the fake motor, so this fake motor moves when you use the shield, is that a great function? I seriously do not know. Is everything best if you build the model around a bulk of motors? If I follow that "needless complexity" argument I would conclude: 42055 and 42082 are two of the worst models ever created? Your example of the 8275 just shows how diverse the community is. This model combines so much of the negative critics of so many models from the past years and now you bring it up as an example of how things should be done xD. And it contradicts the result of point 9 in this survey :D But please don't get me wrong, you wrote how you would do it and that's fine of course. It's just not what most would do, just like TLG apparently does things most in this forum would not... @gyenesvi I think in theory you can add multiple gearbox outputs. If a full rotation of gearbox A engages a connection 1 you can connect with a gearing of 2:1 a gearbox B that engages every 2 rotations of gearbox A. That means first selection of A.1 selects B.1 second selection of A.1 selects B.2, which would make 5 independent outputs since A.1 is already used. But well.... would not work great I think, or I may be wrong :D

He means the joystick symbol on the back on the box, right side :-)

The images of the set are awesome! I don't want to write anything else :-)

Hmmm. 4 valves -> 1 motor for gearbox switch, 1 motor for the pump, 1 motor for the selected valve movement, 2 motors for driving? :D Interface: Switches for each valve -> the gearbox motor and valve motor move automatically to open/close the valves. Not perfectly playable of course, but would be interesting to see I think. And you "only" have to remove basically all the mechanics after the gearbox and add some hoses xD

:D Nice to fake activity.. I mean to actively work on more important things.. for work of course!

I know, it was a bad executed joke about the fact, that the remote is not included in technic sets :< And on topic: Two more buttons on the PU remote would make things so much better....

What exactly, if I may ask? You know, that there actually is a PU remote? :D (but it's a very rare thing, that's why they don't include it with sets I guess :X)

Magenta cable clip in 42114. One part that only exists to make the build even easier and has at least two negative effects to the model.

Ok, then pneumatics do not suck for playing, if it did, in this special case, it would have been phased out years ago. Got it, just sounded a bit more general than it was actually meant, sorry. :) It traded one point of criticism for another. And now some other people don't like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, the sentence you quoted earlier was all about the size and why they do things like that :) It's because people say the things I wrote in my post all the time, everwhere. And "Pneumatics do not suck for playing, if it did it would have been phased out years ago." is basically the reverse argument for why we have the sets we have. They are not bad because otherwise we would not get them, right? @Gray Gear It looks like PU and PF parts are made of gold :) And parts in pastell colors, too!

@1974 Regarding size: In almost every video/stream/conversation/... some sais something like "woooah a big XYZ THAT would be great..." and most agree. And here we are... 42055, 42082, 42100... Star Wars UCS,... Or: "So many Supercars on rebrickable, lego should do that!"... and here we are... And I'm pretty sure a lot of people said pneumatics suck for playing, because it's hard to control and doesn't hold the position.... But you know what? I don't care about cars and I like pneumatics :D And I'm going to buy the CAT and I think one of the first things I'm going to try is to switch the shield to a jaw with some teeth =) And I wonder if all panels are available in olive green and/or some gray for a "post apocalypse dozer" ;) Because buying sets, just to own the sets... sounds not like as much fun as doing stupid things with this stuff. I bought the Liebherr 2 years go and I'm still tinkering around with it, best buy ever, mainly because of PU :D Mabye I should combine both sets into one machine :o

@Johnny1360 Same large angular motors as the steering motor in the 42114. Basically the large angular motors of the Mindstorms set but recolored for Technic.

Nobody knows what 18+ means xD Worst product description ever :<

I guess it will bascially be the same as in the 42114: You press a button -> the function will be selected and executed -> 4 Funktion -> 8 buttons or 4 levers. And I guess they will add a calibration helper like the clip in the 42114, so in the worst case the selector has to turn 270°. But if you create your own PU profile, you can remove and optimize that for faster selection. But we will see..

The product list clearly contradicts this. And don't forget the "you can draw where the car will drive app" (except it doesn't because it has no proportional steering)

@Lok24 Thx :)

Short question: Is it possible to connect multiple remotes to one hub and/or one remote to multiple hubs? :)

I trust eric and M_longer here. And for a gearbox with 4 outputs, you have to build a stepper mechanism, if you want to use PF. The nice thing about the gearbox solution: It's easier to use with the train controller. ;) 6 Buttons - 2 for the motor/direction = 4 for selecting the function. In combination with the touch interface for driving and sensors, I think the model will be relatively smooth to use. Everything combined in a frame, like @kbalage did for the 42100 in one of his videos... And it's possible to add some indicators, buttons, fart sounds...

Not possible without changing the mechanics ;) But you can program it with PU :D To be honest: The set would not be cheaper with PF :D

There is not much more to tell. The Robot-Inventer-Software has dedicated blocks for the Xbox and PS4 controller. But that works only in streaming mode, since these controllers do not support BTLE.

@howitzer They already did for Mindstorms and Xbox/PS controller.

I don't know. I just mentioned what they announced, that a PU-based solution is not easy and maybe not do-able if the logic as it is now has to be preserved. I do not want to argue against pybricks.