Not that I scratch built a single building, but I have been taking photos of buildings that I like. Than I realized that it is not too easy to remember a building from a bunch of photos taken months or years ago. But there is a solution. I found two very useful programs for this issue:
Microsoft Photosynth imports all you photos taken from a building and builds the 3D environment just be looking at the photos and trying to determine where the pictures were taken from and how the pictures relate to each other in terms of their respective position. This is all done without any user intervention. At the end you get a virtual 3D space where you can move around and observe your subject from all angles and locations.
AutoPano is a panoramic photo creation tool, and I use it to stitch detailed photos taken from a building facade and merge them into one high resolution image. It has some nice tools to remove distortion from the image and create a geometrically correct (?) image of a facade which can be traced to create plans.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCzH3jMG9nw
Annual exhibition of gauge 1 models in Sinsheim Germany. The gauge-1 meeting is presenting the most extensive overall view of gauge-1 items on market worldwide. More than 100 exhibitors, clubs, manufacturers from all over Europe. Also present will be many clubs to present their spectacular and meticulously made gauge-1 systems to the public. The event is offering many things worth seeing and guarantees an excellent opportunity for all model train fans to exchange experiences. The gauge-1 meeting is real crowd puller, inducing an international public to come to Sinsheim each year, among them also visitors from Australia, the USA and Japan.
In this video:
- Various stands with new a second hand models for sale
- ModelBau Manufaktur: beautiful lifelike trees
- Scale 1 club of Berlin: 20 meter odd long layout with modern and steam trains
There are 4 parts of this video. Check out the others as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuboiXDAcM
This is my second product in the MumuBiz zigbee batch I received recently. This is a single channel smart relay, very similar to Sonoff SV, but this works on Zigbee, and an 433MHz RF remote can be paired with it. Works with Tuya and Sonoff (eWeLink) as well.
Product listing: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002656862349.html?spm=a2g0o.store_pc_groupList.8148356.21.563d345fwWM95y
Temperature and Humidity sensor review: https://youtu.be/0IKeUq9xBZg
2 channel zigbee switch review: https://youtu.be/OyxqK9HoBHY
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:58 Device specs
2:48 Contents and Documentation
3:37 Powering and RF pairing
5:10 Momentary and Latching mode
6:16 Pairing and using in Tuya
9:23 Automations in Tuya
10:51 Pairing and using in eWeLink
15:07 Scenes in eWeLink
15:42 Outro
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji09-5whGA
I made a visible progress on my LocoRemote project. My PCBs have arrived from PCBWay, and I can show you an assembled board. All looking fine now, it is time to marry the new board with my first loco.
Github: https://github.com/nygma2004/locoremote
PCB Project: https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/ESP32_Wifi_LocoRemote.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANlh9ZKmcRU
This is a review of this ESP6288 UART module available on ICStation.com:
http://www.icstation.com/wifi-module-esp8266-pinboard-cellphonepc-wireless-communication-module-p-8857.html
I bought this to program my ESP-01 boards, but it is only design as an UART. So here I show how to modify it to a programmer as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaIWZCRSz8
I could not attend the earlier Open Day at the Hungarian Railway Museum this year, but I was there this September. There were less guest engines than usual due to corona virus. I helped to take visitors round the track, I did 43 laps which is 36km of total travel. Not bad from this home made engine. I was thoroughly satisfied with her performance. I think the batteries still had juice to spare.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6oMqYRbxQo
eWeLink Camera APP has been updated with some new features and also wanted to show you how well it works with NSPanel Pro to be used as a monitor.
Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coolkit.ewelinkcamera
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRChXkTE2Tk
Work on the chassis and body has started. I have most of the metal work done and the body is starting to take shape. This is a progress video on things are looking at the moment.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKLBb37LkE