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I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to create a 3D map of the museum, automatically identify tracks and overhead wire, and compute wire height and track gauge.
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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