Notes from the Electronics SIG meeting 10 December 2025
Graeme, Stephen E., Jeffrey, Joe and Hugh attended.
Stephen R sent his apologies.
The first item was to pencil in the date of the next meeting – 29 January was agreed.
Joe was welcomed to this, his first meeting. He is using an Arduino to control servos to change points; he will have 16 servos. In addition, there will be 20 indicator LEDs.
Stephen has been working on his home layout, extending it round to a third side of the room (it has both 00 and 009). He has been considering how to extend control to this new section – perhaps having a second control panel and controller, with a "hand-over" section on the common border between the two parts.
Hugh has upgraded the "Clacks" tower (semaphore/telegraph tower) in Angst-Lesspork so that messages can be input via a mobile phone screen, and sent over the semaphore. The LEDs in the tower are controlled by an Arduino. (There is a link to a video of it in operation over on the Angst-Lesspork thread in Layouts on this forum here (https://forum.009society.com/index.php?msg=40181)).
The rest of us confessed to not having been very active in the field recently!