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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 10 months ago

spinolio commented 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

spinolio commented 10 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 10 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