Monday, 12 July 2010

Train controlling points

As usual, I got this working ages ago and have only just gotten around to writing about it here. I've figured out how to transmit using the CC2420 on the tMote and can now send messages from the train to the points! The train is now running autonomously on a little schedule I've hard coded. It moves to one end of the tracks, sets the points, moves the end of the branch and then back, sets the points to the other branch and moves there, before returning to the start and repeating. Not the most exciting thing in the world, but a big step forward because the train is now autonomously moving about and controlling the points wirelessly itself.

Here's the obligatory dull video!

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