Johnny's Workshop Track System

Overview:

So far, a modular 3-lane track is comprised of 10 different parts:

• Track connector,

• Track connector lock,

• Track rivet,

• Straight track,

• Straight border,

• Inner radius curve border,

• Inner radius curve,

• Center radius curve,

• Outer radius curve,

• Outer radius curve border.

Enough pieces to achieve track layouts such as these and much more!

Track width and footprint:

A 105 mm track width gives the cars more driving surface than other brands while not occupying as much real estate.

For example, this 3-lane layout including borders consume less overall width than a 2-lane Carrera track with borders:

Usually, only lanes directly in contact with borders benefit from them. Opting for a less wide border design is a good compromise to balance available track surface across all lanes.

• Rivets (yellow), are for welding track sections and/or pieces together,

• Connectors (red), are for building parallel track pieces and sections..

Rivets and Connectors:

Underneath, a 3-lane curve section would look like this:

Conductivity, DC Current:

The DC current is carried via 4 mm male/female jack and 6 mm width braid.

Note: This design also features countersink screw brackets for fixing track pieces onto another surface.

This Lap counter's interface is comprised of 2 buttons, an RGB LED and a 2 inch 320 x 240 colour screen

The Lap counter will display:

• Target number of laps set in the setup screen,

• Live race duration time,

• Current lead (on top), second (center) and third (bottom),

• Each lane is displayed with their current lap and best lap.

For this layout, a 3 lane dead-strip is used to detect laps:

This prototype is built using a Raspberry Pi - Pico 2 mounted on a Monk Makes - Pico Proto PCB and a Pimoroni - Pico Display Pack 2.0. With the addition of a separate dead-strip circuit and relay boards:

Start/Finish:

Lap Counter:

The Lap Counter is still under development, stay tuned for more!