That is cool. Promise us all you will show us photos + videos + blog when you get it all going
Phew, mate - that might take a while.
I had the idea after having bought an electrically driven H0 scale model of a
BR 03 steam locomotive two years ago.
I thought that its a pity that I have to run this fine model with electricity instead of steam.
So I started to think about building one myself and how to do it.
Once I had the complete concept in mind I started to think what would be necessary to do the task (computer, software, CNC machines, ...).
And I realised that I'd better immediately start saving money for that in order to have everything together when I will be retirering in april 2022. Before that I'm afraid I won't have enough spare time to start such a project alone.
I work in Cologne and live roughly 80 km east of it - so I took a small appartment in Cologne (where I stay during the week) and go home just every second weekend.
That's certainly not enough time to build a model steam locomotive - so I'm afraid the project will have to wait until that changes with my retirement.
It would be way cool to be able to remotely operate my toy trainset from a seawolf submarine submerged 800 ft underwater :rolleyes:
:lol:
I know it's off topic but in my opinion the idea of using the zena to run a train set is the coolest thing to use an Amiga for since the toaster first came out for the A2000. It's a definitely more interesting use of zena than what xcore/hyperion/aeon has suggested so far
Yeah - this way "gaming" could be taken to a new level.
Conventional gaming (like going out to fly an RC model aircraft, to drive an RC model racing car, to sail an RC model ship or even an RC model submarine) could be interwoven with computer gaming to a completely new gaming experience. It could be done in a way that one could think he'd be sitting in the cockpit of the model (e.g. video streaming from the track ahead).
With "interwoven" I mean that "missions" of computer games (like e.g. Interceptor FA-18)have to be completed not by flying a virtual jet in a virtual space inside a computer, but by flying a model in reality - outdoor.
It also could be big fun to fly a
video Drone that way...
That's why I think the A1 X1k could really be an interesting machine to tinker with - if I only had enough time...