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The electronics are 5V or 3.3V. There would be voltage regulators on the circuit board dropping the supplied voltage from batteries or power adapter to 5V / 3.3V. Unless it's a laboratory test bench power supply, you are not going to get precisely 9V out of any wall wart adapter. I don't think an extra 0.48V is going to cause it to self-destruct. Supplying 48V on the other hand...

Bricklink is the last place I would go. My first is Pick A Brick Wall. Then PAB S&H online, order enough and it's free shipping. With a limited budget, I'd like to avoid shipping costs at all costs.

That would be the less painful way to go. I recycle the PF cables from my motors and put Dupont connectors on them. You could put another ribbon cable into the motor and Dupont connectors on the ends. Dupont connectors are quite useful.

Too bad it doesn't go in the water. That's where most of my golf balls end up when I play.

The LEGO narrow gauge tracks are R24. Assuming the geometry scales up to the same on the normal track width, with a 11L wheelbase, the flanges on the train wheels are rubbing hard against the rails. I can push it through the curve without derailing. You could have traction issues if the motorized car isn't weighed down sufficiently. A 7L wheel base rolls through much easier though.

Complete ready to run train set is the least amount of effort and time to get up and playing. Who really wants to spend time buying separate components and figuring how to work together? Why buy individual ingredients at the supermarket to make Christmas dinner, when you can buy a complete ready made Christmas dinner at the same store? Bring home, re-heat and be done.

What is a GBC Type 2? If it uses the standard train motor then it should work. According to Trixbrix: Please note that the R24 curved tracks are very tight and work best with Lego 60051 and Lego 7938 passenger trains. Other, more rigid setups might derail. 60051 and 7938 use the standard train motor.

We now know the O in LEGO stands for O gauge. Well done. That's some clever PF packaging.

Welcome to Eurobricks, Marina. Making stuff is fun.

Welcome aboard, Fred.

Good job. Very colourful like that VW Golf model with the multi-coloured body panels.

Thanks for the review. The printed skis are great. They should have done that for last year's Friends winter sets. I think it would go really well.

Avast, Prize C on Day 8. Pirate Santa Claus gets a manatee for Xmas dinner. Thank you very much, CopMike.

Welcome to Eurobricks, Ronnie.

Old Lionel also has that wonderful electrical ozone smell from sparking. Don't forget to post pics of the O-scale setup next year.

Welcome back. You would have to re-license your ERA I ships to the new rules if you want to use those ships in ERA II MRCA. All your other properties and characters stay the same. Is that Charleston as in North Carolina and Blackbeard?

All hail the new emperor!

Pi is 5V DC USB powered through a microUSB connector. There looks like a poly fuse near the USB power input on the underside.

I use a $5 pi cam on my Pi. I got it to use with Octoprint on the Pi to monitor my 3D printer. I 3D printed a Pi camera holder for it.. You could probably tether your DSLR too. Thanks for the tips. I'll offload the processing from the EV3. OpenCV 4 compiled on my Pi after adding a USB hard drive for more swap space. When I tried Import cv in python, it couldn't find the open cv module. More stuff to debug... Thermal imaging and tracking human shapes sound like a Predator movie. Maybe I can also turn it into an anti-squirrel water cannon to keep them from eating my pear tree.

Welcome to Eurobricks.

Welcome to Eurobricks, cooper87. Station still looks good.

Welcome aboard, placidsheep.

It's a nice one stop shop. Have your car and your pet fixed at the same time. Waiting for the detailed EB review...

8 core RPi inside might be useful. I have this crazy idea of making our train layout's windmills follow people as they walk by. I am not sure if I should let the EV3 do image processing or a have Raspberry Pi do imaging work and tell the EV3 where to aim. Which version of OpenCV works with ev3dev?