[HN Gopher] Largest model railway launches inductive Formula 1 c...
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       Largest model railway launches inductive Formula 1 circuit [video]
        
       Author : joeig
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2024-05-06 16:31 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | tiffanyh wrote:
       | Better video
       | 
       | https://old.reddit.com/r/formuladank/comments/1ayuttc/they_m...
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       | I think OP video is the same what's linked above.
       | 
       | If you just want to get a quick 15 second gist of it, watch the
       | video above.
        
       | mykehunt wrote:
       | For anyone even remotely interested in model trains I highly
       | suggest checking out their YouTube channel if not a trip to
       | Hamburg to see it in person.
       | 
       | I had the fortune to visit The Miniature Wunderland back in 2014.
       | Spent a good day and a half there. The behind the scenes tour was
       | great. Particularly how they handled the airplanes after landing
       | and their system for charging the hundreds of trucks and
       | automobiles on the layout.
       | 
       | The planning behind things is really incredible. One example each
       | mainline has two trains. One running and one on a siding. This is
       | because the motors of the engines can over heat. In the staging
       | area every 24 inches or so they had a separate smoke detector. At
       | the time they had around 300 full time employees and they have
       | grown a good deal since.
       | 
       | Link to two of their Monaco Videos
       | https://youtu.be/CqT0u6QDJtg?si=rkDysgDH_4USflmN
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       | https://youtu.be/EwLr4LOgi_U?si=oK9Lij3-PUmDkHNp
       | 
       | My N-scale office layout in 2011 pales in comparison.
       | https://youtu.be/DBJIwmpYzY4?si=DRgr6O-7CZUJm-gs
       | 
       | Ironically I ended my tour of Europe at the Monaco Grand Prix.
       | (Thank you Starwood points.)
        
         | netsharc wrote:
         | From all the YouTube videos, I learnt they started in 2001
         | (middle of August, about 4 weeks before 9/11, where for a few
         | days afterwards very few people showed up), and their "Car-
         | System" (which drives the cars, and even planes) is written in
         | Pascal. For the F1 races, Gerrit (the boss who had the dream of
         | having these races) said he wanted a real software-driven race,
         | and thought, "Wait a minute, we have 20 cars, nowadays CPUs
         | have more cores than that, so just give each car a core of the
         | CPU".
         | 
         | In some videos you see glimpses of computer screens that
         | control the cars, the UI looks very fascinating (lots of
         | checkboxes, and status lines).
        
       | andbberger wrote:
       | they have been working on this for years, amazing they got it
       | working
        
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