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Old 2001.12.28, 07:34 AM   #1
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My mini-Z

Well, here it is


Silver Audi TT (Original ready set)
Black Audi TT (bought a "leftover" body and partial chassis from Pro-Hobby)
Warsteiner AMG CLK (Auto Scale)

So now I have something like 1 3/4 mini-Z

Hop ups:
Ball bearings
Horizontal shock & springs
Roll Shock
Cf H-bars
Ball diff.
X-speed motor
Front stabilizer
Front springs
Polished kingpins
toe-in tie rod
Red wheel nuts
Reston sponge tyres
18" pianowire antenna

The body I use for racing is (surprise surprise) the CLK. The black TT sits on gold kyosho aftermarket wheels in the auto scale display case. Silver TT is no longer worth displaying

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here's a pic of the CLK:
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Old 2002.01.10, 04:39 PM   #2
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More pics

This is a pre-rollshock shot of the chassis.
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Old 2002.01.10, 04:40 PM   #3
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Linux-basher with lights
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Old 2002.01.10, 04:42 PM   #4
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This one has really seen some action
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Old 2002.01.10, 04:48 PM   #5
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Shot from the rear.
On this picture the tail lights are just stuck on with some packing tape and light leaks to the inside, a blob of hot glue and some black paint should cure this. The leds are running at 40mA , that would be the "brake lights on" brightness, quite sufficent I think.
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Old 2002.01.10, 04:50 PM   #6
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I allready installed front lights on the black body as well. No tail llights untill I figure out how I connect them.
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Old 2002.01.10, 05:02 PM   #7
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here's what is in there, or rather the version 0.8b of the actual electronics


4 SMD (Surface Mount Device) red LEDs and a pair of white LEDs, two resistors, pieces of flat cable, a bunch of heat shrink and some pin strip.
I made the connector omnipolar so you can't reverse the voltage.
Turns out the 2 wires coming on to the top side of the circuit board are before the switch, so the lights are permanently on. After a test drive I also figured I need some capacitors to keep the lights from dimming during acceleration.

For the black one I shall install all the new features: brake lights (mercury switch I think) and capacitors.


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Old 2002.01.11, 07:14 AM   #8
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hey, those lights look really nice..... pretty amazing stuff....
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Old 2002.01.11, 08:33 AM   #9
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Nice RH decals...

Real men use FreeBSD

Also, like your SMD LED idea, makes sense and lookes a lot neater than 'most' that I've seen

Do you compare hopping your Mini-Z up to compiling your own Kernel?

Nice one Wtone

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Old 2002.01.11, 11:07 AM   #10
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You ought to make more and sell them--I'd buy a light set from you!!
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Old 2002.01.11, 05:35 PM   #11
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can you post up a picture where you connected the light wires to the power source?
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Old 2002.01.12, 11:02 AM   #12
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Wedgi:
Sorry, I don't have a digicamera or a scanner at home but I'll try to explain.
I soldered the lights to the red and black wires that are on the top of the pcb. You only have to remove the esc-cover to see them. I also filed a notch into the cover for the cable.

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Well.. I'll make atleast one set for the black TT maybe also for the CLK, I'm hooked


Mondo:
That only goes to show that installing Redhat takes too much time ( I did the decals during that time ) Well actually the sides are decals that came in the sales pack.
Hey.. I just said to someone in the coffee room that we should implement the intranet server with linux, the next day somebody shows up with a RH-box "so do it then" Me and my big mouth
The hood is from the side of the box, done the way I described it in a previous post. Not very durable without a clearcoat

BSD daemon is way cuter than the RH-logo I have to admit.
Maybe that's what'll be on the black one


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Old 2002.01.17, 03:06 AM   #13
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Light update

My R&D department has since dumped the mercury switch, and is researching into somthing more innovative

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Old 2002.01.17, 04:26 AM   #14
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W-Tone,

Yea, the BSD demon is a cutie, but don't forget Tux, our friendly LINUX penguin

Perhaps you should just sodimise the car with a Microsoft logo and enter it into a demolition derby

Agreed the Open Source stuff rules and we should have a moral obligation to promote it via our Mini-Z's!

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Old 2002.01.17, 09:06 AM   #15
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Mondo: LOL!
Well there are enough MSDn boxes laying around for that.. all that is missing is a trabant body shell " Vorsprung durch Technik!" (audi) and "Where did you think you were going today?" (trabbi)

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