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The rotary dumper is completed -as far as i am concerned- except for landscaping and moving the controller underneath the board in front of the rotary dumper. One of the first images has it where it will go. The only problem is that the cars fall off the track when they are turned upside down - the springs are not strong enough to hold them :( i made rails along the track to help keep them aligned... but they still derail and uncouple sometimes...

The controller code and information is posted at Parallax in the completed projects forum.

Now working on a controller for the Rocket tubes - rather than the remote control radio it is now dis-connected from. Actually it is basically finished- just hook up servo wires to the controller - the code was simple enough- use the IR remote and raise-lower the tubes on command. Just thinking about having rotating 'radar' dishes, other sounds when someone approaches, etc... but that is all sprinkles on the whipped cream on the dessert... The RC had glitches.. the great thing about these controllers is the LACK of glitches.. i ran a train underneath the dumper and it had no glitches... actually the RC only- well mainly- glitched when it was perpendicular to the radio antennae. OOpso, the controller will not fit in the cars... will have to cut apart or make my own board... one that is about 1" wide and thus about 6" long, rather than the standard ~3"x3"...

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