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2022-06-07 5:22 pm
I'm a 75 year old former service technician who fiddles with small electronic projects for various odds and ends that deal mainly with the model railroad world. Without any programming expertise I have mainly borrowed from others who have created projects that interest me in that field. I also want to create projects that I can give to my grand children, the main reason I joined this forum. I need help. I will post the topic as soon as we get started here.
Thanks to all who are willing to give a very forgetful person some assistance.
Don
Inst-Tech reacted
2022-06-07 5:29 pm
Welcome to the forum youngster. 60+ yrs experience programming and used to have a small HO and N gauge. Sadly they now sit unused, after I donated the HO grandchildren and N gauge to a local club.
You will find a few model RR's here that can help you with the software side. I never got into that part of it but I am aware it exists. I think a lot of the 'programming' is more like configuration than actual programming due to the fact that RR's are much more predictable.
Arduino says and I agree, in general, the const keyword is preferred for defining constants and should be used instead of #define
"Never wrestle with a pig....the pig loves it and you end up covered in mud..." anon
My experience hours are >75,000 and I stopped counting in 2004.
Major Languages - 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PLI/1, Pascal, C plus numerous job control and scripting
Topic starter
2022-06-07 5:43 pm
Thanks for the quick response. I mostly use projects already created for the model railroad world. I belong to a club that has both HO an N scale layouts. The N layout is my creation, designed and built by myself and one other N scaler. It is a DCC layout controlled by JMRI running on a couple of raspberry Pis with arduino projects around the circuit controlling turnouts and a couple of arduino speedometers embedded in the track.
But!!!!
The main reason I joined is :
I need help with a time sensitive project for my grand daughters birthday. I've got until July 22 to get this done. I've already spent nearly a month on it and I seem to be spinning my wheels. Indecision and the like. I'll start a topic very soon.
frogandtoad reacted
2022-06-07 5:47 pm
@dacum47 Ok, post your topic in the appropriate section, some parts are hard to find quickly any more so the sooner you start the better.
Arduino says and I agree, in general, the const keyword is preferred for defining constants and should be used instead of #define
"Never wrestle with a pig....the pig loves it and you end up covered in mud..." anon
My experience hours are >75,000 and I stopped counting in 2004.
Major Languages - 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PLI/1, Pascal, C plus numerous job control and scripting
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