Wednesday, September 7, 2011
An Arduino Duemilanove, 16×2 LCD, and Qik 2s9v1 motor control in a fairly simple circuit. I’m not much of a solderer, so the jumbled mess is a mess and the joints are blobs. But, hey! It works! Need to get the voltage readouts working, test using different PWM settings, and probably use a better (read alkaline) battery.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Two of my hobbies at once! Railfaning and Biking! Swwweet!
Friday, August 26, 2011
For Sierra and Stony!!
Sierra’s engine house. I’ll need to shim under it, but it looks GOOD.

Yard office by Sierra. Truck cab and trailer for container by Stony. Container is MTL.
Boy, I have some painting to do…. :)
Pictures of the layout’s progress. Re-posts from the lost blog…
Track on the doorslab….

Risers in place for the main loop…

Test run of train on loop…

The view begind the backdrop where the “yard” will go…

Plaster down for the yard with a few randomly placed buildings. Don’t you love my paper engine house?
Sunday, August 21, 2011
This server’s harddrive died. Along with it was all the postings and data. :( Sad thing was I was trying to back it up offsite when it died. Poo. Well, won’t have that problem this time around.