On board brains

cabbage · Jun 23 2018 16:28

Yes !!! Exactly like that one!!!

Regards

Ralph

cabbage · Jul 11 2018 18:11

Ok, busy day for the credit card! I have ordered the Syren 25 and Kangaroo X2 daughter board from Dimension Engineering. They took my money and informed me it had shipped 1hour 45minutes later (!) I have ordered two arduino cards and two FTDI boards. This will give me one to play with (or blow up) and another to sit in the loco. I am informed by a friend in the USofA that the arduino uses C++... So, it is out with the vi and my pet version of Linux (Debian 9) to start tinkering code with.

I thought I had left all this behind when I walked out the door for the last time !!!

Regards

Ralph

cabbage · Jul 14 2018 10:23

This is the Arduino board... This has twice the amount of memory that the PDP-11 that the university had that I learned to program on!!!

Regards

Ralph

IanT · Jul 15 2018 11:54

At first glance, I thought this was an Arduino 'Nano' Ralph - but noticed there was no USB port.

So I looked more closely and found them on eBay as the Arduino 'Pro Mini' ...how many did you buy? :-)

Regards,

IanT

cabbage · Jul 15 2018 12:51

As I said Ian, I have bought two boards. The idea is to program them on breadboard and then plug the board into the loco. As I have not used the breadboard in years I have to wonder if my slab is still usable?

The X2 and the ESC are last reported at Prestwick, so I should have them soon.

Regards

Ralph

cabbage · Jul 24 2018 14:39

The ESC and the X2 daughter board have arrived from the US. The Locosound steam board has been programmed and the Deltang receiver will get reprogrammed after the weekend.

Thebrediculous problem I have at the moment is finding a length of 68mm dia down pipe to make the boiler from!!!

Regards

Ralph

Peaky 556 · Jul 26 2018 14:32

Ralph,
I have a length of downpipe to which you are most welcome. It measures around about 68.5 mm on average, and a tad oval as you would expect for thin walled plastic.
How much do you need, and I'll pass it over on Sat at Graham's GTG.
Regards, Tim

cabbage · Jul 26 2018 22:16

Tim,
I require a length of 60cm please!

Regards

Ralph

Peaky 556 · Jul 26 2018 22:51

Sorry Ralph but it's only 41 cm long. I have some slightly smaller stuff that's longer, I'll put a tape on it in the morning. ??

IanT · Jul 26 2018 22:53

Gentlemen - - Should we change this thread title to "On board Drains" ??

:-)

IanT

cabbage · Jul 27 2018 07:51

Tim
If 41cm is all you have I will take it!

Regards

Ralph

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