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Hermosa - Do the Hills have eyes?
The hills for the background have been painted on the walls in Hermosa are done. A little clean up on the lower wall with some California Sky Blue and then the bench work wil got in for the 2' x 8.75' town of Hermosa.
Laser guided, computer controlled model railroad
This is the start of my new railroad journey in Australia
First some history from my previous layout in South Africa
Having had a nice 10m x 10m room and living in the same house for 20 years helped get a rather large first layout almost complete.
First will be about 20 photos from the "old layout" without much description
When one micro camcorder isn't enough - UPDATED: Night vision video added
UPDATE - video sample of night vision added later in this thread
UPDATE - video sample added later in this thread
OK - I'm a gadget hound and I admit it. If I already have TWO micro camcorders, why do I need a third? I don't need it, but I wanted it - and at $21.00 why not splurge? My new camcorder is really small - about half the size of my CUBE unit.
the Fleet grows
Winter is arriving and so is my fleet of HBM&S GE 70 ton locomotives.
just about done the decals so I can spray with dull coat.
Then to get the hand rails back on and custom pass through walkway on number 8. It will be the same as #7's walkway.
Will there be a 5,6 or 9?
Time will tell.
Tim Schwartz
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Cornhill & Atherton - Arc Welding with the Arduino finite state machine
Enthused with the recent Arduino control of the staging yard, I decided to strike while the iron was hot and try another Arduino project. I'm not very good at learning stuff for the sake of learning (like C programming) without an end goal, so I needed an idea and an arc welding simulator fits the bill.
Welding simulators are common, but I after a quick study of 'prototype' arc welding, I realized there was more to the project than first appeared.
SPSF Meadow Sub: Custom Fast Clock Alternative Using Computer and Monitors
When I converted my DCC system from Digitrax to NCE in September, I decided to completely do away with the LocoNet system, which included my Logic Rail LocoNet fast clock. I don't have any signals or anything else connected to LocoNet, so that was an easy decision. My idea for the fast clock replacement was to use something else that wasn't dependent on or linked to my DCC system. At first, I was planning to use the JMRI fast clock on my computer and eventually purchase the Iowa Scaled Engineering fast clocks.
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