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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
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RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized...
25th Jun 2026
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...
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
11th Jan 2026
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
30th Dec 2025
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 2
My cardboard prototype of the central portion of a Class 80x dashboard allowed me to iterate to a...
6th Sep 2025
My cardboard prototype of the central portion of a Class 80x dashboard allowed me to iterate to a laser-cut hardboard prototype.
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1
After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a...
31st Jul 2025
After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a cardboard prototype, plus associated CAD designs to get the design fabricated.
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Train Simulator Controller: Horn Control
My several iterations over a CAN bus controller for my Train Simulator physical dashboard has made...
21st Jun 2025
My several iterations over a CAN bus controller for my Train Simulator physical dashboard has made it simple to add new controls. Here’s how I used it plus a joystick to add UK horn control to my virtual train.
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge, Part 2
In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set...
25th May 2025
In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set of components are the gauges that tell me what’s going on with the train. As I build the dashboard into which to embed my gauges, I realized I needed to better modularize my air...
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Train Simulator Controller: Designing a Dashboard
Having sporadically built controls and gauges to interface with Train Simulator over the course of a...
1st Feb 2025
Having sporadically built controls and gauges to interface with Train Simulator over the course of a year, in April 2024 I began to figure out how to design the dashboard they would all fit into.
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