This week I did not get around to do much in the shed. With Monday being a
Public Holiday the only day I did venture down was that day and played a bit
with the Raspberry Pi. I undid the changes I was trying to make for what I
thought made the Pi simpler to use, and then did a test run with it. It auto
booted with the Wifi connection being visible to my son’s IPod and the Pi
successfully allowed me to drive a train from the iPod connected via the serial
connection to the PowerPro 5 Amp System. Today I went to Office Works and
picked up a second 8GB micro SD card for $7.97, which I will have available with
an alternate configuration so I can connect the Raspberry Pi to my Powercab
system (after I purchase an NCE USB connection).
Yesterday was Club Meeting day and I made my way to the Club for the
monthly meeting. I took along my Fleischman Tacho car and had it pushed around
the layout. Well It turns out that the layout is 7.03 scale Km around the inner
loop. That equates to about 80.8m of track. Quite a lot of track. I think
that distance surprised some people.
I spent most of the in front of the TV watching Ford reign supreme over Bathurst!
Next weekend is the Queensland Model Railway Show at The Workshops Rail
Museum in Ipswich. I hope to get there. Our Club will have two layouts in attendance - HO and N.
No comments:
Post a Comment