Controlling your model trains with your computer and free software

Presented by:

Mairi Dulaney

from The Dreadnought Project

Mairi is a programmer by day and works on the steamship Virginia V by, well, also day. She is the ship's electrician as well as a designated engineer (assistant to the chief engineer). She's pretty handy with an oil can.

This talk will cover using your computer to control your model trains. It's pretty easy; just need a laptop (or other computing device) with enough resources to run a Java based graphical application, an Arduino Uno, Arduino motor shield, 15vdc power supply, and some time to set it all up. I will cover JMRI for the laptop, and DCC++ on the Arduino.

Date:
2019 November 15 - 16:45
Duration:
20 min
Room:
TALKS 3180
Conference:
SeaGL 2019 - A Prime Year for Free Software
Language:
Track:
Hardware/IOT
Difficulty:
Easy

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