Angst Lesspork

[Graeme Dunbar]

Too lazy to do it, but I might come back to it later.

My favourite ratio is: 1/( 113/355 ) - easy as pie!  :laugh:

[Hugh Norwood]

(Back on topic..)
Here we are. nearly finished.



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[Tigger]

Looking good, Hugh!

[Hugh Norwood]

A travel accessory has been spotted on Angst station platform...

[berryr99]

Luggage with feet and Rincewind I presume

Bob

[Hugh Norwood]

I spent a fruitful hour or two finding and correcting a weird fault that surfaced at the end of the day at Pewsey. I had missed out a wire in the control box. (lesson to us all there...)

Since the layout was up, my daughter helped me plant some more people. I am slowly coming round to the idea that the buildings need to be "dirtied". Perhaps the odd tree growing in a roof gulley?

Pewsey was a great day; many thanks to the Wiltshire Group for organizing the event. I can vouch for the Lardy Cake.

[Hugh Norwood]

I have finally worked out a way to make a working mechanical clacks tower!

I've got the stepper motors and the microcontroller and have written a short test program as a proof-of-concept.

(I've also tracked down the code book for the Popham semaphore system, which is the version I'll be going for.)

[Hugh Norwood]

Angst-Lesspork has been invited to the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, which will be in London on 14-18 August 2014. Phew!

Web site http://www.loncon3.org

(edited link)

[Graeme Dunbar]

Great news and what a recognition of the layout.

Have you been at at nanny Ogg's scumble or otherwise have "og" on the mind?    ;D Try:

www.loncon3.org

[Hugh Norwood]

thank you! :)

[Frank]

Well done Hugh!

And of course the latest Terry Pratchet book will be out by then, telling the story of how the railway came to Discworld.   You might have to make another loco or some different stock....

Frank

[Hugh Norwood]

Mechanical semaphore (almost) comes to Angst.

While I have yet to built the semaphore post and attach the arms, the rest of the mechanism works fine; A spare PC keyboard, a small circuit board with the microcontroller and interface chips, and two stepper motors each with an arm butchered from plastic propellers.

Press a key and it waves its arms!

Right.. Back to packing....

[DeadHorse]

Will it 'clack' ?  :)

[Graeme Dunbar]

It works very well indeed! I saw the demo at the Convention today. As for clacking, the stepper motors are a good size  so a football rattle or gragger-like like affair might be driven off the shaft perhaps? Just a thought.

[JulienW]

It works very well indeed! I saw the demo at the Convention today. As for clacking, the stepper motors are a good size  so a football rattle or gragger-like like affair might be driven off the shaft perhaps? Just a thought.

Damm - I missed that!