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My DIY MIDIBox64 based controller. ( www.ucapps.de )
12"x12" Faux Walnut Case
16 Knobs
5 Faders
16 Arcade Buttons
32 MIDI controlled LED buttons
After years of procrastination I finally put my name down a few months ago for a Scottish Region Class 24/1 from Sutton's Loco Works. The loco selected is D5132, which comes in BR standard green with a yellow warning panel. Delivery is expected sometime next year but meantime I've been giving some thought as to where it will go. Being displayed on a shelf is not an option being considered - especially as the loco comes with the full-monty regards sounds and effects, including the 'stay-alive' feature.
Given that usable space is at a premium I've come up with the idea of a loco shed, theoretically located somewhere in the Borders area, during the steam-diesel transition period of the early 1960s. While D5132's home was Inverness 60A (making it a shoo-in for the Kyle and Far North Lines), seeing as I'll be the Operations Manager, I've decided the occasional trip down to Carlisle is a possibility, where it might encounter some ex-LNER and LMS friends.
The sketch attached is how it's currently visualised - it isn't to scale, but I do have a scaled plan. Use is made of a 3-way point and a double slip to save space. The shed is two-road with pits just in front of the entrance, and a water crane The well turntable is currently sized at 32 foot - which will turn a 3F Jinty but nothing bigger, so I may end up rethinking that.
The backdrop will be a brick retaining wall with a street scene above together with houses and shops. Just in front of the retaining wall will be a coaling stage - the line behind the shed used to access the coaling stage is long enough to hold a class 24 with a couple of mineral wagons, which will then be propelled back. I may well put a diesel-oil tank and another water crane there, to make it a 'one-stop shop'.
Entrance to the shed yard will possibly be through the bridge at bottom right. However, thoughts subsequent to this sketch are to have it from a small two-platform station currently being designed which, if it comes off, will also provide a circuit for continuous running.
This foray back into railway modelling is very simple after 50 years away so we'll see how (or even if) it goes. I have acquired some rolling stock - a covered van, three 16T mineral wagons (two with coal added), and a brake van, all of which are secondhand. I've also acquired enough of the track pieces (Peco Code 75 Bullhead) to start work on the Shed yard, although the baseboard and supports are still being researched so construction will have to wait until that's resolved and installed. Likely layout size will be 1.0m by 2.5m.
Imminent steps include acquiring a DCC controller - probably the Digitraks Zephyr Express - but, whichever it is, it's a steep and often confusing learning curve for someone who's only ever known the simple bi-directional analogue controllers of the 1960s.
It should make for some interesting fun over the next few months - if it does indeed get off the ground.
Apologies for the lack of responses lately. This coupled with Christmas prep, family, elderly relatives, and other personal commitments has made big demands on time. I will be however catching up over the next few days. Cheers, David.
12th December 2022
I had accidentally dropped my Godox flash controller on the hard floor and it landed face down shattering the screen. So now it no longer works and that meant I had to go buy a new one so I could continue to work the speed lights remotely. Alas, I was sad.
We're Here looks at Broken Things today.
Flickr Friday theme: Mode
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
On of Graeme’s presents from the children.. a personalised Xbox controller... they call him Big Ginge... so had to get one to match...xx (he will deny he is ginger though)
Favorite tweet:
Controller Area Network(CAN)
独Bosch者が提唱した通信規格です
V E C T O R の 資 料 を 読 め
— ゆーくりっど@技術書典2 お-22 (@yuqlid) January 24, 2017
I don't have the number of the trailing 1044 sadly, if I made a note at the time it was in a notebook lost in a car theft in northern Italy in 1991.
The train is heading downhill eastwards, and I suspect the 1020 has been added at St. Anton to provide a path for the loco seen earlier on banking duties from the east.
One impressive feature of this line was the ability of the controllers to process a large number of trains, both freight and passenger, along a single track.
Not an image from where I'm working, but probably from this restaurant's former industrial past. Whether an original feature or a bit of set dressing was unclear.
I've taken a lot of self-portraits over the years. Anytime I want to test out a new product, to see what it can do, I usually use myself as the test subject.
This self-portrait is no different. However, the products being put through the ringer actually made the self-portrait significantly easier to create.
The two products? DSLR Controller and the TP-LINK TL-MR3040 3G/4G Wireless N150 Battery Powered Portable Router.
Several months ago I purchased the TP-Link portable router with the intent of converting it into a CamRanger clone. Unfortunately, that proved more than a little difficult.
However, I recently found out that you can load a custom firmware onto the TP-Link portable router to make it compatible with DSLR Controller (software that I already owned).
The combination allows me to see the camera's live view video stream, adjust exposure values, change focus points, and trip the shutter all from my Google Nexus 7 tablet. It's utterly brilliant!
Now I can compose the shot with the perfect framing, adjust the focus points for proper focus, trigger the camera and even see the resulting image without ever moving from my spot in front of the camera.
It really is a great solution...and exactly what I wanted to do when I bought the TP-Link portable router in the first place.
strobist: 1 Canon 580EX, camera right, diffused by a gridded 24" Lastolite Ezybox. 1 Canon 580EX, camera left slightly behind subject, flagged (to prevent light on the background), used to create rim/back light. 1 580EX, slightly camera left (in front of subject), bounced off a large white reflector to add a touch of fill light to the image. Flashes triggered via PocketWizard PlusX transceivers and an optical slave.
Check out the Lighting Diagram.
Update: I posted a news piece on the DSLR Controller + TP-Link Wireless Router setup on The-Digital-Picture (<-- click link to see article).
On 31st October 2012, the GB Railfreight shift operations controller, at what was originally the Tees-side Cast Products control building (TCP), surveys General Electric 6-wheel diesel-electric 268 'Kirkleatham' (Works No.5465 built in 1977) shunting flat wagons in the 'Lackenby Grid' exchange sidings serving SSI UK Ltd and Tata Steel, Teesside. GB Railfreight had been contracted to take over the responsibility of all internal rail operations at Redcar and Lackenby, using the inherited General Electric locos, as well as procured Di8 locos for use on the torpedo wagon duties, but the 'marriage' was sadly short-lived, lasting a mere three yeas before SSI UK went into liquidation.
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Such a nice chap! I was trying to cross the road but it was all blocked because of road works. So the kind traffic controller said "come follow me, but first you have to take my picture!" I was wearing my camera you see. I am sure he was joking but I put up my camera and took his picture. He roared with laughter and said, "oh no! I'll be all over the internet now!'. You sure are!