Model Railroading > Raspberry Pi & model railroading

I was wondering if anyone here has tried adapting the Raspberry Pi microcomputer to model railroading functions. A Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized linux computer with a GPIO (General Purpose Input-Output) socket which can be used to control a multitude of devices. There are other competing boards available such as the Arduino & the beagleboard.

I was thinking you can use one to automate the signalling/switches on a layout or create a custom DIY command control system.

There's been an ongoing discussion on the Yahoo NCE group about these. Quite a few people on that board are playing around with them to test their capabilities.

Mike

To get the latest information I'd go join the jmriusers Yahoo group. You will need JMRI as an interface to your layout anyway, and there are a lot of others that are working on getting this working with the Pi.

Barry Draper