Iowa Scaled Engineering have developed a very flexible and capable DCC Decoder Shield that interfaces the Arduino to a DCC System and supports CV Read/Write via the CV ACK facility. Here is a photo of the DCC Decoder Shield connected to an Arduino UNO showing the jumper settings: Once you have configured the jumpers you…
Petr Šídlo has posted an article describing a DCC Accessory Decoder that can drive up to 16 relays on his website here. It’s written in Czech language but Google Translate does a pretty good job…
The MRRwA Project source code has been moved from the single SVN Repository on SourceForge into separate GitHub repositories. They have also had the appropriate Arduino IDE library.properties files added to enable operation with the new Arduino Manage Libraries… & Add .ZIP Library… features. More details can be found here. The LocoNet library now supports the AVR…
If you’ve been following Geoff Bunza’s Scale Model Animation Blog on the MRH website, you’ll find several projects SMA-10, SMA-12, SMA-13 that use the NmraDcc library. Geoff ‘s projects needed support for mobile decoder functions 13..28, but that was not supported by the library, so he had to add a work-around. This needed support has now…
While I’ve not had much to post about or new releases to the libraries over this last year, there have been changes going on slowly in the background (when I get a few hours to dedicate to it) from time to time, as I do have a few small projects in the works that need…
IMPORTANT: I introduced a major bug with the NmraDcc library when I added the Mega 1280/2560 support as it broke the Mega168 support and it took me hours to figure out why my code, that has worked for years, suddenly stopped working on my Mega168 dev board. To work around the problem of how best…
A new version of the library is now available to download as a ZIP file in the downloads section: REMOVED due to a major bug. This version includes: Support the Mega1280/2560 in the NmraDcc library Support for LocoNet Throttles has been added to the LocoNet library and a new LocoNetThrottle example has been added that…
The library has been updated to allow it to be used with Arduino 0022 and Arduino 1.0 and is now available to download as a ZIP file in the downloads section: here. Enjoy and “Happy New Year!!!”
I decided to move the on-going development of both the EmbeddedLocoNet and OpenDcc Arduino Libraries to the SourceForge MRRWA project associated with this website, so any new work on these libraries and new MRR based Arduino projects and articles are welcome. Basically as things have become more Arduino centric and I got tired of maintaining…
The presentation slides for the two Model Railroading with Arduino clinics presented by John Plocher and Dave Falkenburg at the X2011 Convention are available here: Introduction Clinic Slides Applications Clinic Slides
