Jim

What kind of options are there to communicate with the Control+ hub myself? I have seen people being able to control the Control+ models without the official app. Do they use your method or is there another way to connect to the device and send commands?

Great. Thanks! I was/am hoping for an SBrick (or Control+) like experience, but at the moment other solutions are welcome too.

PoweredUp is fine by me. Has there been any news on custom profiles and reversing the polarity of the motors in the official PoweredUp app?

I have been looking for the General Control+ Discussion topic, but I didn't find one. So let's start one. Has there been any news on custom profiles and reversing the polarity of the motors in the official Control+ app? What is currently my best bet to achieve that? Using the SBrick profile creator? Buwizz?

I will merge this topic with the general SBrick topic.

Nope. I have simply lacked in doing so Working on it... Done.

Cool I missed some of the communication. Hopefully there will be a press release soon.

That would be great. Based on?

There is no info, so no release date. I stand corrected; there is info...2020

For this time I don't really mind, but please use regular pictures in the next contest. Thanks

The Voting Topic for the Mad Max Contest has been opened!

Voting topic has been opened. I have come down with the flu [insert corona joke here], so please check if I haven't made any mistakes. I noticed that @1980SomethingSpaceGuy used digital images for his entry post. I will not allow that in future contests. It gives the impression that digital builds are allowed and it doesn't reflect the actual built model. And I am thinking about enforcing showing actual progress, instead of creating a topic at the end of the contest. Besides these remarks....wow!! What an incredible list of MOCs. Really impressive. I do say this at the end of every contest, but now I actually mean it

TECHNIC MAD MAX CONTEST - VOTING TOPIC Voting will be open for a variable period of time. Closing date will most likely be somewhere between one and two weeks. VOTING RULES AND REGULATIONS Voting scheme uses the old Formula One style point distribution (10, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 POINT) You need to assign 10 points to the 1st place, 6 points to the second and so one. You need to vote for 6 ENTRIES (no more, no less) Clearly mention the ENTRY NUMBER and the NUMBER OF POINTS per entry that you vote on. You are eligible to vote if you have AT LEAST 50 POSTS. You may NOT vote for your own entry. You can be banned from voting (when vote rigging is suspected). In the event of a tie for any place the Technic Staff will decide which entry wins. Our decision is final. Questions about voting can be asked in the Discussion Topic. For example (entries randomly chosen): --- comments can be placed above the votes 5: 10 (no comments here please) 6: 6 1: 4 9: 3 7: 2 3: 1 Or comments can be placed below the votes ---- NOTES Please use this exact notation NUMBER: VOTES (with a colon). Please don't type #1:10, 1 = 10 or 1) 10 or other notations. Stick to the example format shown above. Please use this thread only for voting. You may explain why you made your choice, but any general discussion should take place in the Discussion Topic. Comments should be placed ABOVE or BELOW the votes. Please don't comment on the same line as the votes. VOTING Voting scheme will consist of 100% member voting. Voting criteria are (in no particular order): Originality. Looks (shape, color scheme etc). Quality of the build. Functionality. ENTRIES All entries can be found in the entry thread: Please visit the entry topic to see all entries. 1. Rebel Tow Truck by Ctan 2. Destruction Buggy & Trebuchet by M00se 3. Zil The Peacemaker by Samolot 4. FrankenBase by Zerobricks 5. Ugly Duckling by syclone 6. Reaper by desert752 7. Taxidermy by Seasider 8. Hell of a Barracuda by Michael217 9. Harshharvester by HorcikDesigns 10. Destroyer by Blaz62 11. Apocalypse Scrambler by 1980SomethingSpaceGuy 12. Mad Musk Cybertruck by paave 13. Halftracker by JLiu15 14. Hard-Knock Life by Leonardo da Bricki 15. The Fishing Warrior by MangaNOID 16. Heavy Metal by Jobo 17. Aardvark by howitzer 18. War Trike by shadow_elenter 19. Mad Nomad by Didumos69 20. Double Trouble by MegaRoi 21. TTT - The Tracked Trike by vascolp 22. Giga Twin by A Great Builder 23. Gator Mayhem by braker23 24. Law and Disorder by Lakop 25. Dozaster! by MisteryMan Good luck!

I'm fine with that. Want me to move it?

I will close the contest tomorrow evening.

It is indeed 1. But we might want to think about 2 as well. We do contests to see cool stuff and follow the progress (i.e. make the forum active and interesting). I will keep this in mind for future contests. --- By the way; some models were posted on the frontpage for a couple of hours. These models have mistakenly been featured and my tool posted them on the frontpage. I removed them, since we don't frontpage topics before the contest ends. Sorry for the confusion.

I am quite busy Tuesday and Wednesday evening, so I will closing the contest Thursday evening.

@Martijn van der Elsen I haven't forgotten about your project. I will try to free up some Mindstorms time soon.

Maybe we need to deduct points from the scores of late entries Define little more time You are lucky that I don't have time to close it the next couple of days anyway, so I can keep it open for a bit.

It does feel kinda that I am the one asking this, but do we have a dedicated Control+ topic?

If I understand it correctly (and sorry for not reading your description carefully the first time), you modded a MOC made by someone else? If that is the case, it would not be fair to allow participation in the contest.

I need to take a careful look at this MOC being allowed to enter the contest. It might violate some rules. I will get back to you later.

I saw this on Facebook and I wondered if this was made for the contest Since you posted this after the start of the contest, I am cool with you entering the contest.

You can use any quantity. However, I wouldn't recommend doing a 100 in 1