July 22, 2023

Talk about foreshadowing lol

 I was looking around and I found some BLMA concrete car stops and I was on eBay the other day wondering if I should buy some or not Im glad I didnt lol. This is exactly what I need for the parking lot that Im working on. 



July 21, 2023

Working on the Koban and parking lot

Well dont I have enough projects going lol. I wanted to add a parking lot to the Koban I just built and here are some mockups of the lot and the building. 

I think I'm liking the first 3 mockups out of all the ones that I've tried. 



























A litle progress on the DCC-EX Command station

Today I got some new items in like the Barrel Connector and some Dupont Connectors (not pictured) 

I wired up the barrel connector and installed some wire for the programming track and the main track.

Documentation on how to wire up the command station werent that clear so I went looking for some reference pictures


Below is the result of my wiring. 




July 19, 2023

Cheap WiFi Throttles?

While on sScale,net I posted in the DCC section someone their homemade DCC WiFi throttle. TCS makes a WiFi throttle that costs $200 the homebrew WiFi throttle supposedly cost under $50 USD to make and it dont look too shabby either. Heres the link to his wsebsite and pictures of the throttle which I think looks cool. 




July 18, 2023

Two out of three isnt too bad DCC-EX

So far I have two out of three parts that I need for my DCC++EX DCC-EX Command Station. Im missing a bunch of other stuff I need like Dupont connecters, Power supplies, Wi-Fi shield. The pic below below is what I have so far. 

DCC++EX is old DCC-EX is the new kid on the block lol. sorry for the confusion.

My Makerfabs ESP8266 WiFi Shield shipped today woo hoo!!!1