NCE PowerCab wired up to the layout and successfully added my first TCS decoders to both locomotives without releasing the magic smoke! Next up, JMRI. Ordered a Raspberry Pi kit to run it on under the layout and have a spare Nexus 7 tablet to use for WiThrottle. Very excited!! https://vid.me/udLP
While I will admit you seem to be speaking a language foreign to me, the excitement is obvious. Congratulations and continued success!
Nice, very nice! Trying to accomplish something similar on a 2x4 N-Scale with bridge piers in the inner loop! I just can't figure it out yet, in the SCARM layout program. Not really sure how to do grades in that program yet If you take more video's from different angles, post them please!
Grades aren't too bad - just select all the track that will be on a grade, click the height icon on the last piece of track and enter in the height you want. (Make sure you don't hit "enter" or it will set ALL your selected track to that height) The rest of the track selected will automatically adjust to the grade needed to reach that height when you click blank space or another track. http://www.scarm.info/index.php?page=help&topic=11 I'm thinking about one of these for the next incarnation of my layout. Great thing about Unitrack is you can play around. Each minor change I make is helping figure out what I like and don't like about the layout. Having just installed the DCC system I realized the lack of passing opportunities on the layout above. I also got some great feedback from this post - http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/n-scale-hcd-layout-planning.91063/
I have an Arduino I would like to use some day on my layout. Not sure what iI would do with it, maybe blink some led's What's up with the Raspberry Pie? BTW, the top plan of the last two you posted is awesome. I have a 32 x 80 HCD I hope to use one day, but for now it's 2 x 4 layout!
Thanks!! I like that top one as well and it'll likely be the next layout I try. I setup JMRI to run on the Raspberry Pi and when I get some block detection and stationary decoders installed I'd like to try some automation. Just for starters I'd love to have a "macro" of sorts that allowed me to juggle 3 trains on this route in an automated sort of fashion. I'm just starting to scratch the surface of JMRI so I have no idea what's possible yet. If nothing else, having the throttles on a wife tablet is neat!
