I have a model railroad and I'm currently working on a new layout. I want to incorporate traffic lights (either with red/green or red/yellow/green), and I want to write a program that I can run on my laptop, and the laptop will control the order of the lights. I know I could use one of these, but they're expensive (and I'm cheap), albeit easier to use.
So since I already have the laptop, and programming knowledge, plus a bit of electronics, I'd rather go for that instead of the BOE-bot. Got any ideas on how to turn the binary signal from the Serial port into something I could use to control the lights?
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to electronic components.
So since I already have the laptop, and programming knowledge, plus a bit of electronics, I'd rather go for that instead of the BOE-bot. Got any ideas on how to turn the binary signal from the Serial port into something I could use to control the lights?
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to electronic components.