One of Hidaka’s later versions of his monorail, this time using a Power Functions Medium motor geared to drive a set of wheels underneath. The Power Functions receiver is directly behind the conductor’s station and is wired to a battery car that is behind. Like the first version, the rail guides are inside the lower panels, but the track is now 2-wide as opposed to one-wide.
Hidaka’s latest version of his monorail, with multiple cars.
As of 2012, Hidaka has developed switches using the MINDSTORMS RCX system, pneumatics pistons and also a double switch that can switch two trains to adjacent tracks. He is currently working on sloping tracks to change elevation. Other future plans include moving from RCX to MINDSTORMS NXT and using more than two motors on each train to allow more cars.
Monorail going up slope track.
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