Comments on: A welcome train for the holidays http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:29:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: madeira http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-66631 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:43:53 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-66631 5 minute before someone stole it in my neighbourhood!

]]> By: Chaz http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55538 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:28:15 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55538 By far not over engineered, was a perfect hack, left the original device intact and got it to operate the way you wanted, and taught me more about IR signals, perfect. Well done.

]]> By: Eric http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55480 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:30:56 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55480 eddie:

I think you didn’t notice that the train is battery powered. Using a relay was my first thought, too.

-eric

]]> By: Eddie http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55454 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:07:22 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55454 Over engineered. Use a 555 timer chip to drive a relay to power the train for the required number of seconds. The floor mat pressure switch would trigger the 555.

]]> By: Fyre007 http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55437 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:56:14 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55437 My stepfather got a really annoying doorbell that is triggered wirelessly by the door ringer.
I had a plan to trigger it repeatedly by remote so I opened the transmitter and there was a component with 433 stamped on it and I knew I had a 433Mhz reciever around so I buffered the reciever’s output
and did exactly the same thing: wire it to my mic port and even used Audacity (FTW!) to record it’s digital waveform.

The plan didn’t take off, as I only know picaxe as far as uCs go… and they have crap timing.

Although I managed to jam it with a 433Mhz transmitter sending garbage, haha

]]> By: Alan http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55425 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:39:39 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55425 That is one creative pressure sensitive mat!

]]> By: EdZ http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55424 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:29:27 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55424 Add more trains, several hundred meters of track, and a more complex controller, and you’d be approaching Wallace and Gromit levels of awesome.

]]> By: omley http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55402 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:32:14 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55402 ah, here we go, actually: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=die737mrZx4

]]> By: omley http://hackaday.com/2008/12/15/a-welcome-train-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-55399 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:31:22 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=6988#comment-55399 controlling something like this is pretty sweet. i did it before using XML and Windows2000. you could just as easily use a batch script, take a look here: http://variableghz.com/2008/11/why-i-still-use-dos/

and search google for “xml switch” i think, i can’t recall right now sorry;

-o

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