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  1. dr_spock
    Nice work. Does the sensor work better with flex track?
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    Do you have a link to your internal photos?
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    Welcome Shawn.
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    Welcome aboard, BrickObsessed.
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    Sounds like getting the pieces yourself and building your own off the pictures on the Ideas site is the better way to go. Those guys must have rushed it to market without the LEGO testing and re-imagining of the Idea.
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    Fun idea. Do hotrods use 8 cylinder engines back in the days?
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    Maybe the Chinese are trying to find riches in niches? For whatever reasons, at the end of day the Chinese found it worthwhile to produce them and LEGO did not.
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    Good work. Did you use water-proof ink?
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    They are fun to participate. I suppose if you break your NDA, they won't invite you again.
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    Looks great. Nice use of the black rollerskates.
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    Yup, we're the ones with the colorful layout and toy trains in the sea of gray hair and drab colored layouts at train shows. It seems to pull in the young families with kids. My target audience is kids 5-10 or so. Hopefully spark a life long train interest in a few of them. If momma LEGO doesn't provide, I make do or make my own. CAD and 3D printer seem to be a good enabler for DIY custom parts.
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    Is there a golden rule like "Don't bite the hand that sponsors your prizes."
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    LEGO had released some tilt rotor type aircraft sets in their Creator and CITY themes long before they did the Technic Osprey.
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    Do you have an ammeter to measure the current draw by the motors?
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    Congrats to the winners. https://www.bricktrainawards.com/winners/brick-train-awards-2021/
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    In 40 years, 3D printing could be as simple as printing with a laser or inkjet printer today for the average consumer. It won't take black magic skills and ample foul language to get it working like today.
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    No holes were drilled in the IR receiver. The wires were soldered to the 9V and ground pins in the receiver and fed out through the existing pin holes. The LED goes on when power is applied to receiver.
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    Wire your own 5mm LEDs. They will be much brighter than the LEGO PF LEDs.
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    Perhaps Pybricks can be an option to rewrite the firmware in the hub to have PU remote function as a speed control instead of full on/off with the large motor. https://pybricks.com/
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    I use DuPont style connectors. That way I can flip polarity around if needed or mix and match adapters for experimentation.
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    I've seen that steam locomotive somewhere before in an unusual locomotives video. Scheduled maintenance would probably be critical in keeping it going, kind of like with any German designed automobile. I think connecting a driver of that size to a LEGO train motor would make for a crazy fast MOC.
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    You can use the Powered UP App to create your own program that reads the PU Remote as input and outputs 0-100 to the Technic Large Motor. I don't know if connecting pin 3 to pin 6 and pin 4 to pin 5 will fool the PU hub into thinking the Technic large motor is a PU train motor. I got it working with the simple medium motor.
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    I would wait for the official contest rules first.
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    Stumbled across an interesting video on the innard of the Znter 9V battery:
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    I used inexpensive 14mm Chinese eBay beads for balls before. (Not sure what the LEGO® content for the contest will be.) It is not a bad way to get started in GBC on a budget outside of the contest. Ball size matters if you plan to bring your modules to shows and have to work with other people's modules. Usually there is a GBC coordinator with a big bag of real LEGO® balls at events so you don't have to bring yours. https://www.greatballcontraption.com/wiki/standard
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