Ever wonder how to flash your grade crossing signals! In this video I have two easy ways to build your own flashing circuit for your grade crossings. One way is with a 555 timer chip and the other way is with a transistor circuit. Both methods are easy to build and very inexpensive to make.
I made three different circuits in this video but decided the second 555 timer circuit was a little easier to control with different resistors to modify the flash rate. All the components needed are listed in the wiring diagrams at the end of the video and can be obtained from my Amazon link below.
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The Sunfounder 3 in 1 IoT Smart Car Learning Kit for Arduino is a good place for anyone to learn Arduino. The smart car project which I show in this video is a great learning experience for building & knowing how sensors interact with objects to drive a car.
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Today I was recording a clip and it just hit me. Why don't I do a video on all the stuff I omit from my other videos. If you see a 16 minute video, I have cut out about another 16 minutes of irrelevant procedures and mostly rambling on of useless information.
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We're taking our Solderless Mini - Breadboard lighting project and soldering it on a circuit board. This project came from an earlier video where I reverse engineered the Just Plugs circuit.
We are using a Sparkfun circuit board that has an identical pin arrangement as our mini - breadboard to make it very easy to duplicate our project on the circuit board.
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We will show you How To Program An ATtiny84 from an Arduino Uno. This is similar to a previous video we did programming an ATtiny 85. This IC has 11 input/output pins with 4 PWM pins to work with on your project.
These items are available on my Amazon page and also can be purchased at Digi-Keys for $2.04 ea. This is a very inexpensive way to automate your model railroad.
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In This Video I Reveal The 10 Most Common Mistakes Made By Model Railroaders When Starting Out. This is an attempt to educate the new comers to model railroading by revealing the most common mistakes made while starting out. There are more than just 10 mistakes that I can reveal, but for this video, I will only cover 10 of the most common mistakes.
If your as old as I am, You have all made these mistakes when starting out in model railroading years ago.We never had the luxury of learning by watching a YouTube Video, or a DVD, or even a VCR Tape. We had to learn by trial and error for many years unless we had a close friends already in the hobby.
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