Author: Ted Becker

By Ted Becker

Sixth in the series on using Arduino in model railroading. Topic this week will cover a grade crossing controller and how to analyze a project to break it down into parts to start writing the code. The end result should be a sketch you can use to control your crossing gates and lights.

Videos of previous sessions are in an unlisted YouTube list. Links to these videos can be found in https://groups.io/g/PNWRRModelers/files or email Ted Becker for the link. rail.bird@att.net.

Topic: Arduino Session, MV Clinic Special Edition #6
Time: Apr 26, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Mount Vernon Virtual Clinic will be held on Monday, April 19, 2021 at 7:00pm. Meeting opens at 6:30ish.

Topic this month is Nick Muff’s adventures on the Westside Lumber Lines. You can expect an interesting and entertaining presentation.

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Topic: Mount Vernon Clinic for April 2021
Time: Apr 19, 2021 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Fifth in the series on using Arduino in model railroading. Topics this week will cover Tortoise and Twin-coil switch machines, panel indicators, coding for multitasking and timing without using delay() function.

Videos of previous sessions are in an unlisted YouTube list. Links to these videos can be found in https://groups.io/g/PNWRRModelers/files or email Ted Becker for the link. rail.bird@att.net.

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Topic: Arduino Session, MV Clinic Special Edition #5
Time: Apr 12, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Fourth in series on using Arduino in model railroading. This session will cover handling servos in an array, individual position settings for each servo, turnout control with a function, 16 buttons to one input pin and introduction to route indicator.

Videos of previous sessions are in an unlisted YouTube list. Links to these videos can be found in https://groups.io/g/PNWRRModelers/files or email Ted Becker for the link. rail.bird@att.net.

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Topic: Arduino Session, MV Clinic Special Edition
Time: Apr 5, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Third in series on using Arduino in model railroading. This session will cover controlling multiple servos with multiple pushbuttons with “brute force” SW methods then introduce more sophisticated SW approach. Ways to wire things together will be touched upon.

Videos of previous sessions are in an unlisted YouTube list. Links to these videos can be found in https://groups.io/g/PNWRRModelers/files or email Ted Becker for the link. rail.bird@att.net.

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Topic: Arduino Session, MV Clinic Special Edition
Time: Mar 29, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Second in series on using Arduino in model railroading. The session will cover controlling a single servo with a toggle switch or push buttons, controlling a Tortoise with push buttons then move into controlling multiple servos and Tortoises.

Video of previous session is on an unlisted YouTube posting. Email Ted Becker for the link. rail.bird@att.net

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Topic: Arduino Session, MV Clinic Special Edition
Time: Mar 22, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Mount Vernon Virtual Clinic will be held on Monday, March 15, 2021 at 7:00pm. Meeting opens at 6:30.

The topic this month is Mike O’Brien showing the progress he has made on his new layout in Northern Idaho. Mike has taken a unique approach to developing the backstory for his layout and it is interesting how he has worked that backstory into his layout.

Topic: Mount Vernon Clinic for March 2021
Time: Mar 15, 2021 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

Monday, March 8 at 4:00pm PST will be the first of a series of Zoom meetings on using Arduino in model railroading. These sessions will be held every Monday except the third Monday of the month.

The topic of the first session will be the IDE, editor, compiler and uploader features and settings. It is recommended that you download and install the Arduino IDE 1.8.13 software from https://www.arduino.cc/en/software.

Topics of subsequent sessions will be determined by the interests of the participants.

Topic: Arduino Session

Time: Mar 8, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Ted Becker

The February Mount Vernon Clinic has been rescheduled to 7:00pm Monday February 22, 2021 via Zoom. Meeting will open at 6:30.

Program this month will be an introduction to Arduino for model railroaders with examples of how Ted Becker is using Arduino on his layout plus examples of how you can use them. The focus of this clinic is to help you decide if this is something you wish to pursue further. At the conclusion of the clinic will be an opportunity for you to express your interest in more, in-depth follow-on sessions.

Zoom links to the meeting will be posted here later in the week.