I was wondering if anyone is using the Arduino board to help run anything on your layout. For those not familiar, the Arduino board is a programmable board with multiple pin inputs and outputs that let's you set pins high or low to operate things like LEDs, relays, timing, etc.
Seems like this would be a natural fit for some things on the layout.
Thanks,
Ed
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I have designed a railroad crossing alternating flasher circuit as a beginner lesson to try the Arduino out. It works great!
It won't end up on the layout because I want to try other experiments. I got an add on 4 relay board and just waiting for some time to play with it. Thinking about a trolley out and back circuit with sensing at each end.
Hoping for more responses to this...lots of ways to use the Arduino, seems like a natural for our trains.
Ed
I've been working on Arduino-based control system for several years. In my setup the Arduino:
The Arduino (a Mega in this case) is the board in the middle of the picture. The other two boards are ones I designed for block occupancy sensing and a 64-line I/O expander:
The control panel is implemented on a computer with a touchscreen, running the open-source JMRI software. It sends commands to the Arduino, which passes them on to the Legacy base:
I would buy this book if it were written.
Chris
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