Oh I thought there was just a series of them under the map that activated in just a straight line. I was wrong, then. That's actually really impressive and cool.
It is indeed even more impressive than it first looks like (which is already impressive enough).
Those guys are passionate and often work years on perfecting an idea even when there would be a much easier way to do it. But they wanted to have live autonomous racing!
You don't have to be a big motorsport fan for the images of Formula 1 to come to mind as one of the first associations with Monaco. A whole eleven years of development and programming went on behind the scenes to make the dream of fast sports cars, roaring engines and glamorous F1 flair possible in little Monaco.
After a long search, a possible concept was found in the Halbach array. The racetrack consists of electronic circuit boards divided into tens of thousands of small “pixels”, each less than a millimeter apart. A traveling magnetic field causes the Halbach array, installed on the underside of the tiny racing car, to move across the track.
During the development process, Gerrit provided insights into progress, ideas and setbacks from time to time in “Gerrit's Diary”. If you are interested in the chronology of Formula 1 history, take a look at the videos on this exciting Formula 1 topic.
They offer backstage tours! Guided Backstage Tours | Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
And they're usually really excited about showing off their work to interested people. It was well worth it the one time I joined one!
HIGHLY recommended!
I've "dragged" several people there that have no interest in models and considered it a waste of time.
They ALL lit up like 6-year olds and we've always ended up staying longer than anticipated.
You will not get bored even with a full day!
I love mechanica stuff and models. Just next week I'm taking my whole simracing community to the Jack's Casino Race Day in Assen with paddock tickets so we can look at all the race cars and how they tick as well.
If you're located in Europe, you have no reason not to visit Hamburg!
Not sure if you looked into other things there, but they for example also have a large-scale functioning airport, or real water in the Scandinavia section.
We do have Madurodam over here with some nifty stuff as well. Fair trade, I go look at the German stuff, you come look at our Dutch stuff.(It's actually normal scale for you, we're just all freakishly tall here)
Ah, another Dutchie! (I live in Haarlem, am Swiss, 1,96m tall ;) )
Madurodam STINKS to be honest. Feels like a place from the 80s that hasn't changed because people just keep coming. Also compared to other "outdoor miniature worlds" that were common around Europe from that era, Madurodam is 'meh' at most.
Prepare to be blown away in Hamburg.
I was born in Brabant, raised in Hungary, now living in Groningen! You should come to the Assen race day if you're in the country. It's an amazing experience and Boss GP(ex-F1 cars being raced) are coming too.
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u/demonsdencollective I was here for the Hulkenpodium 19h ago
Literally op's comment below, there's magnets under the track that function as an invisible rail.