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    This rail crossing is automated by two Arduino's. One Arduino will take care of the actual crossing (making the freight trains start/stop and the signals) the other Arduino controls the passenger trains which start/stop from two different stations. Because there's only one priority track for the passenger trains on the crossing, but both stations have two tracks, the latter Arduino also has to control the direction of the passenger trains on the crossing and also flip the switches to make sure the passenger train ends up at an empty track at the station. Both Arduino's have some low level communication between them: as soon as a passenger train is started, the crossing-Arduino is told to put the lights on red and to stop the track. The crossing-Arduino has a setting that tells it for how long the lights should be red. Oh, and there's of course also the Lego Terminator. Enjoy!
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    This would result in the train not stopping for the traffic light: the second motor will power the first motor through the wire between the motors once the first motor reaches the isolated power rail. So to make this work you need to extend the isolated part that is controlled by the traffic light switch.
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    That is one awesome design! Are you going to build it?
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    Well it's not all that difficult actually! For the slow moving timelapse I normally use a Lego built platform which moves very slowly (double worm gear) on which I put the camera. In this video I actually used a videography slider but the motor was broken so I built a quick and dirty Lego winch to pull the slider (that is why the timelapse is nog 100% fluent). And about the video quality: it's a combination of using the right equipment, settings and color grading afterwards. Lighting is probably the most important thing. I started years ago with just normal construction lamps, now I use professional studio daylight lighting: that helps a lot. I'll see if I can make a tutorial somewhere in the future. I got first a container terminal to finish ;)
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    1) if only ;) 3) I never did anything with IR stuff, wasn't that the Youtube channel "Lego arduino trains" or something like that? I always use the 9V system. For those interested: the extra footage video is online!
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    There weren't many fails, but I managed to put a video of them together! :)
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    It's my own design, it's actually older than Valerie's but Valerie's is more life-like. All the parts that I used are available on Bricklink although the model contains about 100 red triangular supports and I had to gather them in about 10 different Bricklink orders from around the world. I now see that there's still a scarcity for these parts, that will be a problem. BUT: I don't want to keep my tower as it takes up too much space. So if you're interested I could sell it to you (doesn't come cheap though, it costed me a lot), PM me if you're interested. Otherwise I will be putting most of the parts on bricklink, what would abolish the scarcity of the support parts. I indeed store everything in boxes, closets and shelves. The shelves have custom made dust covers so I can store everything dust free. I don't like to build a city like Jang or Alex Nunes (their cities are really awesome though) and fine tune it in time. I like to build an impressive layout and shoot a nice video of it. Next to that I do a lot of Lego train automation projects, once finished I don't keep them: I use the parts for my next project. Well, most lighting I've done myself with some resistors, LED's and a lot of wire. The bridge lighting I have bought at BrickLED.nl, they sell complete lighting units.
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    I have the LDD design of it if you're interested. The downside is that due to the ramps, the trains don't have much speed on top of the raised crossover so no spectacular crashes I'm afraid (unless the trains fall down of course). And yes, baby crib is new! She's 9 months old already!
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    Hey! So it was time for the yearly Lego train layout in the living room. This time with around 80m of tracks and the Terminator enjoying himself on the roller coaster. Have fun! :D
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    Wow, this is simply amazing! Any idea how many bricks are in this model? It passes the 100k I believe! This is the single most awesome thing I've ever seen built out of Lego. I lived a few years close to the dolomites and I always loved hiking and climbing there so maybe my view is a bit subjective, but still... Wow!
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    I use the arduino platform with normal IR sensors. I don't use the Mindstorms platform, as those sensors cost the tenfold of a normal regular sensor.
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    Amen to that, totally agree. Every time the same story here: when new trains are announced people here (not all!) are always dissapointed in one way or the other and it seems that Lego can't do it right and I totally disagree with that: overall they bring out nice sets which are mostly intended for kids who look at the sets completely different than adults do. No flame intended though! :)
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    Thanks for the compliments! I understand the issue with the barriers moving too fast, I've done it for practical reasons. I like the idea about adjusting the speed of the barriers based on the speed of the train, although you need some additional equipment for that. I'm going to make a realistic level crossing in the future for sure!
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    Hey everyone, I just finished my third automated level crossing: the 7835. Since I had also already automated the 7866 and the 10128 it was time to put them "in series". The 7835 is automated with the parts that are also used in the 7866. Enjoy :)
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    A while ago there were some rumours about a new station. Are these rumours still rumours or are they debunked? If still rumours, are there already descriptions about the looks? I haven't seen any relative post in this thread about this subject. BTW, a HP is one thing but I won't be very happy with a HP themed train station although I could understand the logic behind it.
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    For those interested: episode 2 and 3 are also online now: The fourth and last episode will follow in two weeks.
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    I don't know about the passenger train: I think the border between the yellow front (again one mold piece?) and the blue/grey is too "abruptly", it looks a bit amateurish to me. Cargo locomotive is awesome though!
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    I have my doubts too. The international toy fair is in the end of January. We should hear some rumours just before that. If not, the trains will be definitely be displayed at the fair. So at the latest by the end of January we'll know what 2018 will bring us on this topic.
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    Yes! That's the one! It kinda looks like a grey 7938 but then in the configuration of a HE so you might need two to get a whole train.
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    I agree but I think we are now living in a time where every penny spent can be followed. Time/money spent on building those extra alternative builds will not generate a lot of extra money for Lego. So they won't do it. But that's just my theory. Back to 2018 trains: I have seen a picture of a Lego City where a train was partly visible in the background, a few months ago. Rumors were that that would be maybe the next passenger train. It was light grey, Amtrak kind of design. Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
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    This is so cool! It's kinda weird to see these builds in sharp hi-res photos!
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    60098 is now almost end of life according to the Lego shop@home.
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    Hi all, I'm working on a 3-episode Lego animation series. The series involves most of the characters that can be seen in my other (train related) videos. But now for the first time, they are featured in an animation series. Enjoy and let me know what you think of the first episode! The second episode will be uploaded in a few weeks :)
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    You can't directly export from Stud.io to lXF but thanks for the tip: because of it I noticed the export possibility to LDraw, I totally overlooked that! LDraw is again importable in LDD. Had to change some item numbers but it works just fine.
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    Hey all, I organised an LDD contest on my youtube channel and I've received some designs in LDD and Stud.io format. The ones from LDD (*.LXF) can be opened in Stud.io, but not the other way around. The winning design is a Stud.io file. I've uploaded it to a Bricklink Baseplate but I can't find anywhere how to generate a building guide. I can click "step view", but it doesn't do anything (the desing appears to have 2 steps with all the changes in the first step). Is this where the building guide should be?? 1. Is there a way to generate a building guide in Stud.io, if so how? 2. If I can convert the Stud.io file into an LDD file, I could open it in LDD and use the Buidling Guide view mode but it seems this is not possible? Do you have encountered this problem? I really need a solution, since the design has over 1500 parts I hope you can help me out!
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