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?I am still quite new to DCC model railroading - working on a trial N scale layout with about 18 blocks, 4 trains etc, controlled with JMRI etc.? THe learning curve, and some frustrations with Digitrax, loconet, and JMRI 'steep' learning curve have me wondering what the future (near and longer term) of control may look like?
(and I am a career chip design engineer currently trying to learn about AI topics for electronics design- so a bit of an electronics nerd).
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So I am eager to hear from the prognosticators, naysayers, and visionaries on this group. Are there big technology changes coming in the near and mid term??
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- Bluetooth communications to all trains/rolling stock/sensors/lights - is IoT coming to the model trail world??
- What about other ways to know where your trains are?? micro GPS locating? Has anyone done a system where one or more video cameras is used to look at the layout, using vision processing in real time? (sure seems like a task made for AI)??
- And AI - is anyone using AI to write their JMRI scripts or otherwise control their layout??
- How about lighting? I foresee doing an entire set up for lighting from a single strand of individually addressable LEDs (controlled by an Arduino perhaps) under my layout and running a fiber optic to each 'lighting point' up through the layout.. Is that done??
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Perhaps I am being too geeky - I really like the real time operations and control challenges with this so far - and am just starting to think about the aesthetics - of scenery and themes.?
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Thoughts? - or point me to the dark corners where this discussed!
-Peter
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