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Train track? locomotives?
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On 2/5/2014 18:59, Martin Pinkston wrote:
After I got home from the meeting last night, I got
to thinking about a couple of things. The one being that
once winter ends and decent weather start, I will be
spending more time out at the train track. Because we
hold public runs every other Sunday. A public run is
where we give the public free rides on the trains. Some
days we have 700 to 800 people come ride with us. It is
open to any one who shows up and you all are welcome to
come and see us.
So, along those lines, I keep thinking about some of the
cool things that could be done with a RPi or Arduino or BB
in conjunction with this hobby. For instance, just a
simple set up to graphically represent a locomotives
location on the track on a laptop and then post that info
on a webpage. From there, the imagination could run wild,
like controlling signal blocks and switches, and the nice
thing is that once the bugs were worked out, an actual
product could be packaged and easily marketed on the web
or our hobby publications.
Again, this is just a thought.
I don't believe there is a huge demand for any such products,
but when has that ever stopped pharmaceutical companies. They
are always coming out with a pill and then generating the
demand for it by marketing. Latest example, testostrone
replacement theropies.
Besides, I think it would be a great learning experience in
programming and might make a decent project for teaching
programming.
Again, just a thought.
Take Care and Have Fun Always.
Martin
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