Although I've been a follower of Bill's wonderful site for years, and a member of the forums, I've not interacted before this. I'm a retired software engineer. I retired from Northrop Grumman 15 years ago and now at 79, I feel I need to keep up tinkering with Raspberry Pi, Arduino and esp32 and the like if only to keep the synapses firing. I got interested in Arduinos when I decided to get back into model railroading a while back and immediately found Bill's DroneBot Workshop, and the rest is history.
@hurrikane Welcome youngster. You will find a few model RR's here. I have a local club I want to get involved with but not until I get some health issues fixed. Unfortunatly the local club is all old timers and they probably will never change from the hard wired setup they have. I think there are devices in the locos but do not know the acronym. I know the modern scene is wireless and very sophisticated, it's now more about the software than the wiring.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's & MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
I didn't even think of this !
I'm divesting of my model train collection (HO and N gauge), and probably my slot car collection1:32. Combo of analog, DCC train, and Carrera Digital. Lots of items still in packaging, and some of the controllers to retrofit pre-digital locomotives and cars. This was a big thing when I was a kid, but my son liked the virtual environment for his gaming.
I may have to keep a few items just to tinker!
Cheers!
Patrick
@Fidodie - Fy-doh-dee