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buzcarter / arduino-train-terminal-controller-2.0

A two-terminus track with a station midway, controlled with Arduino: auto-reverse employing IR proximity sensors.
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Check for missing/stuck trolley #3

Open spinolio opened 8 months ago

spinolio commented 8 months ago

You might add some timeouts in your code so you don't keep powering the trolley if there are no terminus/station events after some amount of time. You could also flash some LEDs or sound a buzzer as notification.

buzcarter commented 8 months ago

isn't been thinking of using multicolored LED for the direction indicator. I can do something with that to indicate though the train might be "traveling " it's off the grid as far as the app knows

buzcarter commented 8 months ago

I love that I'm so enthused to do that for a 14x48" layout 😝

spinolio commented 8 months ago

Do you have any of the WS2811 or WS2812 RGB LED strips? Then you could really indicate the direction (with different "animations").

buzcarter commented 8 months ago

Ooooooooh... you trying to up my gadget game, eh?

I'll check these out tonight. Was thinking I'd buy a bag of ten for a quarter 2-line LCD panels and drivers from AliExpress (OK, more like 85¢ apiece).

Anything to reduce the number of jumpers would be nice. I've not pushed the updated schema yet, but she getting to be a right proper mess.

My main requirement is: 5V