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I bought a set as a Christmas gift for my pre-school daughter. Good first impression, works fine, the app seems quite good (but the train is usable without it),
by mormegil 6y ago
I bought a set as a Christmas gift for my pre-school daughter. Good first impression, works fine, the app seems quite good (but the train is usable without it), the color "programming" works nicely and is quite funny to watch a train going on its own, stopping on stops, reversing track, etc. I'd like to have a slower speed (the train offers three speeds but even the slowest one is quite fast, IMHO), though. (And the guide states the train detects derailing and stops automatically, which it doesn't in our experience, it just goes on on the floor...)
Now, I'm thinking about reverse-engineering the BT communication and building my own app... :-)
- snickmy 6y agoI actually wanted to do this myself too. I'm quite sure there is a firmware that can be expanded not very dissimilar from an arduino. The other thing that I'd love to do is to 3d print a station (with related time stop) with a Qi charger. Shouldn't be too hard to have an induction coil under the train. The only problem is that the firmware shut down the train when it is charging.
- mormegil 6y agoI have found there is a Scratch extension using Scratch Link to communicate with the train (see https://scratch.intelino.com https://scratch.intelino.com) , and I guess it should be easier to reverse-engineer that, I guess.