Gadget Freak Case #187: A Futuristic Twist on Model Trains

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The Battery Show Europe/Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo Europe 2023

May 23, 2023 to May 25, 2023

For those who love model trains, here's a peek at the future - a solar-augmented monorail. Joe Kopacz and his brother Justin created the monorail from scratch. Joe, a mechanical engineer at Colorado State University, created the gadget for a school contest. The monorail includes break regeneration and has solar panels to augment the battery. The monorail is run off of an arduino uno, which controls the recharging and other special features - including lights that come on when the monorail enters a tunnel.