track building

[Jimbo]

Re: Neds Post 30th Oct 18
What a sensible and balanced post.
Ned, you put into words exactly my issue with the cars - lack of the ability to obtain the highly detailed bodies as offered by
brands like Slot it etc..

Having recently retired I was thinking about taking up Magracing again as my hobby but there seems to be so many
obstacles in the way. I bought my only car when Wes first launched the system many years ago and built a small test track.
Everything that Wes supplied worked perfectly and I was delighted.
Then life got in the way.

Now I have more time on my hands I thought I'd get back into it, but as I say, in the passing years, Magracing appears to have stalled.

I still believe it to be the best form of indoor model car racing by far but I can appreciate the problems there's
been with production and lack of a driving force (like Wes) to keep interest up.

Perhaps like many things Magracing was to far ahead of its time.

I'll keep an eye on the Forum

Jim

[HeliumFrog]

Hello

Thanks for the interest in Magnetic Racing. We do produce small batches of the cars and chassis using the new 2.4ghz flysky radios. see the Magnetic Racing website and our shop on ebay. There's a new batch of fixed chassis and bodies in the pipeline to be released shortly.

We are also just completing a demonstration track that we hope to be showing at Gaydon Slot Car festival this year. We have also updated the track section of our website which details the traditional "Wes" way and the Routed "Keld" method of building the tracks.

[http://www.magneticracing.com/track/track.html]

There is also instagram here with a video of early progress on the track

https://www.instagram.com/magneticracing/?hl=en

And I have set up a new youtube channel so we can get up some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vEBt ... CahY2wmQAQ

[Boernis]

Great that it goes up with the cars. One more not really solved problem is lap counting (and RMS).

[kiklo]

As for RMS and laptiming. Racecoordinator is a fully functional system.

I have mad an add on timing circuit for the new cars - and will make it available if there are some interest.

For someone who can do the soldering themselves it will be an neglect-able cost for the parts only.
Any comment on my previous post is welcome.

[HeliumFrog]

The Magnetic Racing electronics have additional outputs with which we could flash an led for infra red lap timing.
As others have said adding laptiming would only require a few soldered parts. The firmware would need updating also. The reason I haven't included it yet is that I am working on a complete solution for race control with a base station. Rather than just using the IR signals for car recognition I am hoping that I can also piggyback on some extra data which can be reported back to the PC. Its a long term goal and I am working on it in between the cars and buildings we are doing!

[thib]

Hello Ned - is there a way to obtain your ARMCO (I think it was yours) in light of Shapeways going out of business? I had bought about 20 feet of it but need many times that.

[Ned]

Not now. If I learn of a company that provides the web-hosting, production, and billing services that were provided by Shapeways, I might be able to make the ARMCO guard rail available. If I should ever want some produced for myself I might offer some for sale but that's unlikely.

[thib]

Thank you.