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The model can be motorized by a Power-Functions L motor, which sits vertically in the driver's cab, the infrared receiver sits in the front area and the battery box in the middle of the locomotive, thereby an optimal weight distribution is given. All three axles, as well as the blind shaft, to which the axles are connected via a coupling rod, are driven.
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Black Cat with Power Functions!
I noticed no one has ever put PF to this set, so I had to do it!
1 servo motor
1 XL motor
1 battery box
1 SBrick
Let's you drive the truck with your smartphone.
All power function parts are packed into the truck's chassis, so the interieur is not modified at all!
I also added double tires on the rear axles
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dryrot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificient glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Jack London
4x360 degree turning engines, opening doors and removable roof for easy access, and a little surprise in the boot for those sprint finishes!!
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I finally had to courage to commit to sending my prototype Lego train control module (LDCC + PF) out for PCB fabrication.
By any measure, this is a very dense circuit layout using very tiny surface mount packages. It bears keeping in mind that this module only measures 56 x 32 mm, i.e. 7 x 4 studs, and is less than a plate tall. A lot of the board area is taken up by the two strips of stud clearance holes to assist with mounting the module within a brick structure. I've kept these two strips clear of components to avoid interference. The PCB is double sided FR-4 and I'm hoping the generous copper poured planes will provide the bulk of the thermal heat sinking when in operation. The circuit should operate relatively "cool" due to efficiencies in design--the one area I worry about is the battery charging circuit when supplying the 10V / 500 mA charging current to the Lego LiPo battery. Depending on the power source, the charging circuit could dissipate up to 1.5 W--we shall see what happens in reality.
I've made a good start on the firmware, but there are so many details in processing the DCC protocol (I haven't even started the Power Functions protocol!) I hope all the code fits in the PIC 18F13K22 micro controller that I chose for the design!
I guess the next step is visiting the DigiKey website for the components--I'm hoping the part cost should be <$20--I haven't put anything exotic into this design--although I'll likely be forced into minimum buy quantities for some items. Ah well, its nice to have extra inventory. :)
Set in torque mode (225 rpms), pulling 20 two-axle freight cars. A bit of a struggle, so I'd say it can comfortably pull about 14 or so.
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We held a function for a kindergarten. We played a lot of games with parents as well !!
Having a great fun there!!
Our first steampunk airship,
in this video, the power functions are visible.
I'd love to hear some feedback--steampunk is not our usual style, but my son and I loved doing some research into it.
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Model "Truck T12 MkII Yellow" Mack Granite is build with LEGO® in scale 1:17,5 and motorized using LEGO® Power Functions. It is a model of a Mack Granite 6x4 day cab truck. Also available in Yellow, a solid color that makes it easier for you to change it in any other solid color you like! Both the looks and specifications are adjusted to match lowboy ”Trailer Tr4 MkII” and the optional jeep and booster ”Trailer Tr4 MkII Add1”. This rather heavy lowboy trailer combination, which might include a load, requires some extra power.
The truck features: solid axle suspension on all axles of which the rear axle uses tandem bogie suspension, PF powered driving with power transmitted independently to both rear axles, reduced speed to increase power/torque, Ackerman geometry on steering axle, Servo powered steering, fully functional fifth wheel, fifth wheel slider, modeled engine, detailed cabin interior and 3 light units.
Even though this truck is designed to go with ”Trailer Tr4 MkII” plus ”Trailer Tr4 MkII Add1” lowboy combination in the first place, it doesn’t necessarily mean it can't be used with other available trailers as well. If you prefer to give it a flat bed or log trailer, you are free to do so!
If a different trailer is used it might be useful to give this truck's drivetrain a various gear setup. For this a separate PDF file is available that tells you what gear reductions to use with which trailer. It also shows you how to do so. Evidently the torque will be reduced, but with lighter weight trailers that is no problem at all.
This model is another custom design by Ingmar Spijkhoven AKA 2LegoOrNot2Lego that comes with building instructions and inventory/parts list!
You can build it yourself! To do so you can buy the Building Instructions. Early in the building process you will see what it is that you are building. You will be very excited from the moment you start the build of "Truck T12 MkII Yellow" till you finish it with about 360 different parts totaling 1900 pieces.
As one of the designer's trademarks this truck model is provided with full solid axle suspension on all axles, so including the front steered axle. Regular LEGO® Technic shock absorbers proved too large. Instead Rubber Belts are used, to achieve this the movement is converted using a lever constructions.
What is particularly new to this model is the double rear axle setup. This new setup allows easy axle and wheel travel. Because it doesn't use any shock absorbing the wheels and axles do not have to deal with any force. It is based around the concept of the walking beam suspension.
This Mack Granite model is powered by a Mack MP8 engine which is visible with the hood opened. This power source is an inline 6 cylinder engine with a displacement of 13.0 L. The horsepower range is from 425 up to 505 HP and this engine has a torque range from 1570 to 1760.
This detailed MP8 engine is nice to build and to give it those realistic looks a total number of 55 parts is used. It is detailed with for example engine oil dipstick, fan, fan belt, pulleys, hoses, oil filters including by-pass oil filter and a turbo.
Together with much more engine bay details which are added the looks are phenomenal. These include break fluid reservoir, windshield washer container, internal air cleaner system with tubing and steering shaft.
A lot of detail is added to the cabin's interior as well in the colors Dark Bluish Gray with some Reddish Brown details. By opening this model’s doors one can access the cabin. The interior's colors, which is quite dark, really standout because of the truck's body work solid Yellow color.
For the driver's comfort the interior has gauges, switches and comfortable seats. Other details are a angled dash and gauge panel, a steering wheel and a gear shift.
Some of the better iterations from my motion painting Processing Sketch – A simple generative system which 'paints' different forms to the canvas.
We held a function for a kindergarten. We played a lot of games with parents as well !!
Having a great fun there!!
My daughter had her first official public function as cheerleader for her school last night. She did so well.
Funny thing about carrying a DSLR out into public. People will always assume two things right off the bat.
1. You are a Professional because "you have such a big camera".
I don't really mind the attention that my camera brings. I enjoy what I do with it and naturally, to use it to it's fullest, it requires me to do it in public a lot. It is a good conversation starter. I am most always the guy who gets asked at public locations by strangers to take the family photo in front of the local tourist icon. David Letterman and Jeff Altman told a funny story once about this situation. They were attending an Indy race together and a man, not knowing who they were, came up to Dave and asked him if he would take a photo of him and his family in front of Winners Circle. Dave said sure and the man handed him a very expensive DSLR. Jeff took the story over from here and said that Dave looked at the camera. Looked at the man and then ran away with the camera into the crowd. Jeff just looked at the man and shrugged and said he didn't really know who that guy was and walked off also leaving the tourist dumbfounded. A few minutes later Dave brought the camera back. I haven't tried this yet, but one of these days I am so going to do it. Which brings us to number...
2. Your big camera will take much better photos than my point and shoot.
The negative aspect of a large camera that I don't like is the assumption that it is the camera that takes the photos and the size of the camera is relative to the quality of the photo. If I take a good photo it is because I have spent years of practice trying to get better. So many times I tell people that their 250 dollar point and shoot is just as viable a tool as my 1000 dollar DSLR - as long as you learn to use it. It's not the equipment. It's the operator. See cartoon below in comments for an explanation.
I want to strongly say that the above comments are not a rant. They are simply an observation with some comic relief thrown in to hopefully convey that I am not ranting.
So where is all this leading? Nowhere other than I am now the official Cheer Dad Photographer for the Hildebrandt Mustang Cheerleaders. A job I actually look forward to. But one that was actually approached by the process above.
Brillaint sculpture hanging in the entrance to the Maritime Museum..
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My car is motorized!
An RC buggy motor on the rear axle and a servo for steering.
The battery box is located in the low center of the car with the IR receiver on top.
Even with the bodywork it's still pretty fast, a bit too fast for IR control apparently,
when I lose contact it just keeps on driving :O
For this reason I don't dare to take it outside.
Yet I'll have to take it outside in order to make a new video of some decent quality...
Model "Trailer Tr2 MkII" is build with LEGO® in scale 1:17,5 and motorized using LEGO® Power Functions. It is not build after a specific brand or type of trailer. This build represents the well known typical US style drop deck flatbed trailer.
The trailer features: solid axle suspension on all axles, three sets of lights, kingpin, remotely controlled landing gear and parking break and many details.
Also can you build it yourself. To do so you can buy the building instructions and check the inventory/parts lists!.
The landing gear is remotely controlled. The beams on the trailer do have this space in between of four studs to hide the M motor and the IR Receiver. Both parking break and landing gear are operated simultaneously. The trailers front end can be raised or lowered to make it connect to the truck's fifth wheel.
The trailer's kingpin does not only keep the trailer attached to the truck horizontally, but vertically as well. This means going over a bump should not make the driver loosing the trailer. For this purpose a axle 3L with stud is used.
It has an all aluminum floor installed with a mash like patters. So it is outlined with the decks frame which also holds the "winches" and retroreflective strips. The overall width of the trailer is 18 studs, minus two tiles one on both sides leaves 16 studs for the floor itself. Divid this by two makes eight studs on each side. The use of modified plates 8 x 8 "with grille and hole in center" is obvious. These are available in very nice colors, it has great looks, light in weight and not that expensive.
These plates suites the job just perfect, the studs make them so called "sticky" this to prevent the load from sliding and it could further more be used to attach loads. The trailer's total length and both main and upper deck had to be adjusted to the use of these 8 x 8 plates.
Probably 30 - 40 years old analog multi meter. Still in good working order and coming in handy to read voltage and current fluctations that cannot be easily tracked on a digital meter and are too slow for the oscilloscope.
Locals refer to this unique and wondrous site merely as 'The Train Wreck'.
The Train Wreck, seven box cars scattered over a One kilometres patch of forest, the debris from a high speed freight train crash in 1957 or 1958, South Of Function Junction near the Whistler Blackcomb resort in British Columbia, Canada. Too expensive to clear up, apart from the engine unit, the Whistler community decided to leave the wreck in situ and allow the birth of an amazing location, a bike trail and even an art gallery thanks to the incredibly vivid and stylish graffiti that covers each and every box car.
The train wreck is sort of a local secret, and I only found out about it's existence from one of the young hotel receptionists at the Crystal Lodge Hotel in Whistler village, who told me that it was great for photography and hiking. So for this series of photographs, let's wander along the forest pathway, passing waterfalls and crossing the train tracks, into the wilderness to discover those not so secret carriages from the train wreck.
The walk begins at Olives Community Market at 1200 Alpha Lake Road, Whistler, BC V0N 1B1, close to Function Junction in Whistler BC. Behind the cafe there is an unmarked pathway into the dense and beautiful forest, though you only find this out upon asking in Olives where the ladies serving fantastic gluten free and fresh foods were incredibly friendly and helpful in handing me a printed piece of paper with directions to the train wreck itself.
Photograph taken at 10:18am an altitude of six hundred and fourteen metres on Monday 15th September 2014 off the Sea to sky highway 99 out of Whistler, South of Function Junction BY Alpha Lake Road and on the banks of the Cheakamus River in British Columbia, Canada.
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The Arctana is my first attempt as an AFOL at a spaceship.
It is designed for long range reconnaissance and radar picketing.
This is a view of the back of the ship, showing the fuel cells and associated conduits.
It is much bulkier than originally intended due to the inclusion of the mechanism for automating the cockpit. This consists of a Power Functions motor and linear actuator.
Unfortunately, there wasn't room for the battery box, so this remains external (hidden out of shot in these photos), connected via the underside of the ship. There are also Power Functions motors to operate the engine turbines and lights to illuminate the cockpit and sensor array.
I was all ready to give LEGO the benefit of the doubt with the new Power Functions train system, what with what I've seen, but this just throws a wrench into any and all hope I had for it. Even if it does cost so much to make a lithium battery, does it really cost $25 for a transformer to go with it? Not to mention you'll need the $15 IR receiver and $5-10 motor PER TRAIN. Sigh.
Yes, you could easily buy just one transformer and multiple motors, but still, $25?? As it is I'm going to have to create my trains modularly so that I can move the batteries, motors, and IR receivers from train to train as I swap them out, simply because it's not cost effective to buy that many motors, batteries, and receivers.
With 9v, sure, you had the supremely overpriced $50 Regulator, but at least you only ever needed ONE. Just buy a $25 motor and you're good to go.
*EDIT: Adding from the conversation below:
The 9v system - $50 for the regulator, $26 for a loop of track, and $25 for each motor. Minimum cost $100 with $25 for every train afterward (not mentioning extra track).
The PF system: $50 for the battery, $25 for the charger for the battery, $13 for the remote control, $15 for the IR Receiver, $11 for the basic motor, $32 for a loop of track (because straights and curves aren't sold separately. Minimum cost $146 with $76 for every train after that (not mentioning extra track).