REVEALED: "How to Use Tiny Micro Controllers
on Your Model Railroad… to Realistically
Replicate Details & Functions of a Full-Size Railroad!"

"This fascinating e-book will show you step-by-step how to get started using micro controls on your model railroad. It will show you ways to give a little hard-working microcontroller supremacy over the power hungry old technology, and how you can add that intelligence to your layout."

Use Arduino micro-control technology for:

Rolling stock and scenery lighting control and effects, street lamps, illumination of buildings, emergency vehicle lights, campfires, welding effects, tall structure anti-collision lighting, turnout operation, solenoid, servos/motors, block occupancy detection, infrared, current sense, right of way signal lighting, semaphores, crossing gate and signal operation, flashers, gate arms, turntable control, draw and lift bridge control, DCC testing, fast time clock, wireless controls, scenery sound control, lighting fixture day-night control.

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"This e-book is the culmination of more than a year's work including: extensive research, coding, testing, writing, taking photos, drawing diagrams, making videos etc. So, there's no need for you to go through the same trials and tribulations. The results are all laid out in an easy to follow format, ready for you to apply and use."

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But the real purpose of any railroad is transportation, and that means that at some point the railroad has to interact with an urban environment of some kind. In the real world, railroad rolling stock is large and powerful machinery, so that makes it hazardous to operate and to be near.

Safety has been a key issue since the early days of railroading, and as time has passed, the use of signaling lights has become standard on prototypical railroads. These have progressed from kerosene lanterns to modern light emitting diode (LED) signals on today’s high speed light rail and long haul routes.

Those of us in the model railroading hobby today are fortunate to have such a wealth of technology to make it easy to create layouts that are incredibly realistic. It wasn’t always so, and often the devices available in the pre-digital era used a lot of power. Many of those artifacts have disappeared forever, but some remain because the function they serve or the realism they offer isn’t practical or possible with modern electronics.

Model railroading technology has come along way since the 1950's

Why expend all that power, layout space and expense when you can have a very few small more powerful brains that will do all the thinking and then tell the layout accessory what to do?

What Does a Microcontroller Do?

A micro controller is a very small computer which is designed to do one or just a few simple tasks over and over again. It will usually be found taking measurements, turning things on and off and often displaying results.

All that needs to be done for a microcontroller to change from turning on your coffee pot in the morning to operating your furnace is the difference of a few lines of computer instructions. The obvious benefit is that thousands of the same kind of device can be manufactured much more cheaply, and the instructions for it all work the same way.

Here’s a short list of microcontroller uses for model railroaders:

Scenery and rolling stock lighting control and effects

• Street lamps
• Structure Illumination
• Emergency vehicle lighting
• Campfires
• Welding
• Tall structure anti-collision lighting

Turnout operation

• Solenoid
• Servo/Motor

Block occupancy detection

• Infrared
• Current Sense

Right of way signal lighting

• Lights
• Semaphores

Crossing gate and signal operation

• Flashers
• Gate Arms

Turntable control

• Draw and lift bridge control
• DCC testing
• Fast time clock
• Wireless controls
• Scenery sound control
• Lighting fixture day-night control

• What you’ll need to get started
• Where to begin – the Arduino basics explained
• Where to download free software for your mini controls
• How Arduino works
• What micro controls can be used for
• The “ground rules” and common mistakes to avoid
• How to use your computer for programming
• How to write a program
• Step by step Arduino tutorials (with short video clip demonstrations)
• What’s a blink test, and how to do it?
• EXPLAINED: Resistors and transistors, and why they’re so important
• LED tutorial
• Code to create your own:
  • Locomotive Visibility Flasher
  • Emergency Vehicle/Light Bar Flashers
  • Electric Arc Welding
  • Flickering Flame
  • Incandescent Obstruction Lighting
• Creating strobe lights and short flashes
• Another way to use output pins
• Resistor color codes demystified
• Switching incandescent lamps and other power-hungry devices
• REVEALED: Using the transistor as a switch
• Care and feeding of transistors
• Other lighting suggestions
• A quick base resistor calculator for transistor work
• How to use micro controls for automation and animation
• Integrating with DCC - What you need to know
• Using micro controllers as a block occupany detector
• EXPLAINED: How Arduino can prevent derailments and throw a turnout
• Using Arduino as a programmable motor controller
• How to use a servo for linear, straight line, or round and round motion
• Using Arduino to do math calculations
• PLUS - Access to my personal list of the best video project tutorials and useful resources. Locating these on your own could take days or weeks.
• And so much more!

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