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Storing & Organizing Pan Pastels... New Trays from PDC.CA
Like many of you, I have a bunch of Pan Pastels.
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This week I got frustrated with them lying all over the place. They stack nicely but they are not convenient to move around in these stacks. So I created an handy storage tray!
1500 Lumen LED work light for $7.00
I was at the orange big box store yesterday and came across this LED work light. I've purchased LED work lights previously from Amazon for illumination for photo shoots. The specs for the light are as follows: Light Output 1632 lumens, 22.69 watts, lumens per watt 71.96, color accuracy (color rendering index) 81, and light color 4075 (bright white).
Reference materials for Arduino setup
I'm curious as to what books/reference guides/etc. folks would recommend as a way of easing one's self into working with the various Arduino products. I know there's an Arduino for Dummies book (I'm still looking for a Dummies for Dummies version...) but there may be better guides for helping the novice understand what he/she is getting into working with these little gems. I'm not worried about learning to program them but the electrical side is still somewhat of a black hole to me.
Cornhill & Atherton - Arc Welding with the Arduino finite state machine
Enthused with the recent Arduino control of the staging yard, I decided to strike while the iron was hot and try another Arduino project. I'm not very good at learning stuff for the sake of learning (like C programming) without an end goal, so I needed an idea and an arc welding simulator fits the bill.
Welding simulators are common, but I after a quick study of 'prototype' arc welding, I realized there was more to the project than first appeared.
SPSF Meadow Sub: Custom Fast Clock Alternative Using Computer and Monitors
When I converted my DCC system from Digitrax to NCE in September, I decided to completely do away with the LocoNet system, which included my Logic Rail LocoNet fast clock. I don't have any signals or anything else connected to LocoNet, so that was an easy decision. My idea for the fast clock replacement was to use something else that wasn't dependent on or linked to my DCC system. At first, I was planning to use the JMRI fast clock on my computer and eventually purchase the Iowa Scaled Engineering fast clocks.
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