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Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

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Re: Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

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Post by OwlsParlay »

leetrout wrote: post #3

Is it weird to post the fake question and your own answer to the question at the same time? I havent had much luck in the overflow communities so I am unsure how common this is. Is it what most people do?

If you know the answer and it's a valid question (i.e. it's not trivial or easily googled already), it's fine to do. The point is less to reputation farm as it is to share knowledge.

Re: Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

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Post by josephcsible »

leetrout wrote: post #3

Is it weird to post the fake question and your own answer to the question at the same time? I havent had much luck in the overflow communities so I am unsure how common this is. Is it what most people do?

There's nothing "fake" about self-answered questions, and Stack Exchange even includes UI specifically for posting an answer at the same time as your question.

Re: Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

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Post by vanderZwan »

josephcsible wrote: post #5
leetrout wrote: post #3

Is it weird to post the fake question and your own answer to the question at the same time? I havent had much luck in the overflow communities so I am unsure how common this is. Is it what most people do?

There's nothing "fake" about self-answered questions, and Stack Exchange even includes UI specifically for posting an answer at the same time as your question.

I suppose the part where the writing structure is "question written as if by someone who does not know the answer themselves, answer written as if it's a different person", even when explicitly posting to share knowledge, is what throws people off. I assume this is part of the SO guidelines but I can't blame anyone for being confused by that.

Re: Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

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Post by preinheimer »

As someone who likes lego and programming, I love this answer. But I hate how hard lego has made it.

Yes, with some work you can make your train stop and go. But I don't think there's a good track switching solution that's lego only and automated. There's an aftermarket motor thing that connects with USB. The lego only attempts end up unwieldy and usually lacking in reliability (e.g. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-11841/1963maniac/train-trac...)

The Duplo trains ship with pretty neat functionality out of the box: lights, whistle, brick reader that activates an action when it sees a certain brick. You can't recreate this with lego with just a single power brick, as it's four things: sensor, light, motor, sound. Lego train can only do two.

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