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My old trains have a second life, with TinyGo!

UB5.132 | Day 2 | 15:30 - 16:00 | Speakers: Florian Forestier

My old trains have a second life, with TinyGo!
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Abstract

In the 1970s, model trains were a popular hobby. Thanks to low production costs, anyone could afford a small HO gauge layout. The system was simple: a train, a motor, 12V DC in the track, and off you go!

Fifty years later, we took our trains out of the attic with a big idea in mind: to convert them to digital. With some Seeed Studio, Bluetooth, and TinyGo, we managed to get a functional railway network, were we can manage speed, direction, and lights of each train individually.

Speakers

Florian Forestier

French developer working at Zenika. I spent 5 years working for a sovereign cloud provider, deploying OpenStack at scale and extending it with Golang-written software. Passionate about everything related to IT, especially if it's new to me!

Also, I like trains, so I put some RP2040/nRF52840 in my HO models to control them. Have a look at https://github.com/trainberry if you're interested!

Oh, and, as my name can prefigure it, I'm French... Sorry if I make some english mistakes.

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