Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted February 24 Moderators Popular Post Share Posted February 24 New attraction in Miniatur Wunderland opens May. 19 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyC Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) If you look at 'Gerrit's Tagebuch' on Miniature Wonderland's YouTube channel there have been quite few videos on the huge amount of development and problem solving involved in the creation of the Formula 1 system. Edited February 24 by JeremyC Typos 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 3 hours ago, JeremyC said: ...huge amount of development and problem solving involved in the creation of the Formula 1 system. Miniaturising the ego's of Alfonso and Vercrashen alone would have defeated most... 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buckner Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 The unit of arrogance is the nanoHamilton 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 At least with it being Monaco they can get away with a single imbedded steel wire and use the Faller system, because all the cars need to do is follow each other round without overtaking... 6 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 25 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 25 12 hours ago, 298 said: At least with it being Monaco they can get away with a single imbedded steel wire and use the Faller system, because all the cars need to do is follow each other round without overtaking... Not that I've followed the development videos, it soon went over my head!, but some cars speed up and slow down independently of others so I don't think it's that simplistic. Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted February 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26 (edited) Doesn't look realistic at all..... The Red Bull was stuck in third, rather than being half a lap ahead of everyone else...... Edited February 26 by Geep7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Just biding its time for a safety car! Apart from that, the "procession" is boringly realistic... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 I do like the way they move though, any techniques we could adapt for layouts? The movement looks rather more natural than most vehicles on layouts I've seen. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted February 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26 3 hours ago, Reorte said: I do like the way they move though, any techniques we could adapt for layouts? The movement looks rather more natural than most vehicles on layouts I've seen. Having seen the technology they've had to develop to get this to work, I very much doubt we'll ever be able to get this to work for our home layouts. The track base itself are some very sophisticated custom constructed circuit boards, and it's all controlled with a custom programmed AI. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 3 minutes ago, Geep7 said: Having seen the technology they've had to develop to get this to work, I very much doubt we'll ever be able to get this to work for our home layouts. The track base itself are some very sophisticated custom constructed circuit boards, and it's all controlled with a custom programmed AI. Could've said the same sort of thing about the electronics in DCC once upon a time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted February 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26 14 minutes ago, Reorte said: Could've said the same sort of thing about the electronics in DCC once upon a time. Yes, this is true..... But this stuff to make this racing circuit work is next level technology from what i'm led to believe. The AI knows exactly where on the circuit each of the cars are, and each in turn has its own AI character so they technically race each other. I think the biggest stumbling block they had was designing the actually race track surface, with the sensors on it, to track each car. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted February 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26 39 minutes ago, Geep7 said: Yes, this is true..... But this stuff to make this racing circuit work is next level technology from what i'm led to believe. The AI knows exactly where on the circuit each of the cars are, and each in turn has its own AI character so they technically race each other. I think the biggest stumbling block they had was designing the actually race track surface, with the sensors on it, to track each car. Indeed, we're nowhere near it being available as an affordable, off-the-shelf product, or even something a competent electronics and computer amateur could build themselves, but the way such technology advances today's difficult, complex, expensive wow often becomes tomorrow's mundane, so it's not at all implausible that at some point down the line it'll be available. All technology is next level at some point. With technology a lot of the effort and expense goes in to developing it in the first place, once developed it can often become quite cheap and easy to reproduce, although that'll probably depend on whether or not a wider commercial use can be found for it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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