Arduino Model Railroad Projects - Campfire
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- In this video I show you how I completed one of my Arduino model railroad projects--campfire. I used an #Arduino #Nano and a simple #sketch (program) to make a very realistic fire effect for a model campfire for a scene on my #model #railroad #layout.
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I love how you take a sip of the coffee and then write down “needs more cream” on your note pad. Oh, and the campfire was awesome too. Great video. -Mark
I told you, I'm drawing pictures of Eric. LOL. Thanks, Mark.
Great video Mr. Ron! I’m finally getting time to get back into model railroading and am astounded at all that is available today. It seems that most of the things I’ve been fortunate enough to work at for the last 40+ years are culminating in this great hobby. I built my first model car at about 5 and my first HO layout in my mid 20”s with electronics as an early hobby , too many things to list over the years. All I can say is, what a time to be alive! Thanks for your great videos!
I get it. It took 25 years of collecting and a lifetime of hobby experience to get where I am in the hobby today.
Great explanation of your camp fire, keep up the good work. Thank you for the recognition, it's much appreciated.
Absolutely. Thanks for watching, Tom.
Ron, your fire is about the right size for a Boy Scout Council Fire or a family Bon Fire, when our children and grandchildren are at our house we often have a fire that large. Also your description of how to apply Ohm’s law will be a big help to figure what resistors I need to use for the LEDs I am using when I build my control panel. Keep up the great work !!!
Thank you much. Glad you found it helpful.
Another finally produced video. I'm not yet into animation, but your explanation was simple to understand and very well done.
Don't be afraid to take the dive. With all of the free sketches out there It is so much easier that you think.
very nice effects, I like the defuser you put over the LEDs.
Thanks, Joe.
This project (thank you Ron) has been the inspiration for a gift for a friend of mine I have known for many years who has (like me) taken up the model railway hobby after a gap of many decades (also like me). Because he was a scout leader for many years I am going to build him a camp fire scene for use on his layout with logs around the fire and - if I can find them - some suitable scale figures that will be in the colour of his scout troup which will be sat on the logs. But that's not the end of it! Because he loved a good sing a-long around the camp fire I have been in contact with his old scout group and get them to record some of his favourite songs which will then be put onto a micro SD card which will slot into a mini MP3 player driving a small speaker maybe located below the camp fire itself.
My Hobo's will be happy to have a campfire now, can't wait to try this on the layout. Thanks for the video
Let us know how that turns out. Good luck.
One fun tip is to cast flames out of resin or other materials that dry clear then place it over an LED like a lampshade or cap when lit. Indeed a small pocket that the LED can sit in also helps in scaling a campfire and the cast flames can even be dyed/washed with color if desired.
Awesome. What could help you is pre-wired 0402 size LED's to help make it easier for you to make a camp fire to scale.
Thanks, I will check those out.
It's a good scene for bonfire. Great video Ron.
Thank you for your comment and thanks for watching.
Very cool, looks really nice! It's always better to under-run LEDs so that they last longer - typically 10 or 12ma is enough.
The final effect is just perfect. I look forward to seeing your in-scale model. That will be tiny. The technical side of the code is key to the customising of the effect. Surely, you could even create some bad weather/lightning effect with this technique. 'Bad Weather Valley'. 😄
Yes, and similarly I plan to to the flash from an arc welder. That will be a future video.
That is a clever idea. I'm not in the field, but perhaps they have thin tubes you can bend and then fire the light down it? You could get some great effects.
THANK YOU FOR DETAIL VIDEO ON CAMPFIRE
Thanks Ron. Great encouragement for me to try something outside my comfort zone. Keep up the great content and high production values.
Thanks for watching.
Absolutely one of the best explanations of a simple Arduino project I have seen. I especially appreciated your use of graphics to demonstrate the circuit on the breadboard. Well done. You are probably aware of this but there are a number of on line and phone apps that will calculate resistor size. I use iResistor and Perfboard on my iphone.
Yes, I am aware of that but wanted people to know how to do it also.
Hi Ron, nice video, I like how you went through Resistance Calculation in detail. As you've discussed, the 3mm LEDs are just too big although you "may" be able to get them under the camp fire. The other alternative would be chip LEDs, the smaller ones. Also, I think you could wire the Cathodes (Negative) together, in the center and have the Anode (Positive) leads on the outside, that way the Anodes wouldn't touch.
In any case, I look forward to how you do this in N scale. I've worked on a camp scene and trying to create tiny, little, minuscule, barely visible camp fires is really tough. Around the campsites here, we have fire boxes that are put there and they measure about 1.5' X 3' or so, in some cases on pedestals. I'm thinking of trying to use Fiber Optics but they don't throw a lot of light.
I will be using nano leds on the layout. I already have them, but they were too small for the test run and WAY too small for video. I did wire under the camp fire exactly as you said, but didn't show it as the video was too long already. Thanks for watching.
Hey Ron, nice video. Here's something you should try, especially in N scale. Instead of 3mm LED's use nano LED's, therefore you could build a smaller camp fire.
Hi, Lloyd. Yes, I have already purchased some nano LEDs from Ngeneering for use on the layout, but setting the project up was easier with the 3mm LEDs and it was CERTAINLY easier to video than these tiny nanos would be. Thanks.
You'll have to get micro lens for your videos, remember you're in N scale...LOL
Keep up the good work
All thumbs available up for Ron! Very well presented and animated. For the first time I got the idea of how to implement the arduino topic - especially as I am not good with electronics and code. Thanks a lot! Heading for Tom's Channel as I am hooked...(or enlightened....?!) Regards from Jo
Hi, Jo. I'm no prodigy at electronics or coding either. Many of the tutorials I see on the subject either expect you to already have too much knowledge or show you the finished project without any real explanation. Fortunately I found some good personal tutors and a few BASIC tutorials that helped. I will share more as I learn and experiment.
Ron, this was an excellent video. I appreciate the way you explained the process. Maybe you should think of writing a book on it. Thanks.
Thanks, Roland. 👍
Thanks Ron, looks like you are kicking me into exploring them now, thanks for sharing....😉
Thats right. Lol. Have fun.
this was a great video Ron but i would like to see your final wiring from the arduino to the campfire. I can't see where and how the wires are connected and power also.
Thanks Bob
Sir excellent work I used this project in my school exhibition and I was appreciated by mam ... and sir I appreciate u for this project
Hi Ron
Would be great to see what the wiring etc looked like under your mockup
Thank you for this concept Mr. Marsh! It is a little large for a camp fire, but it does a great job inside the Northern Light & Power furnace room on my layout. Those Arduinos are the heat! (see what I did there!)
Well done Ron. Thanks for another great video. Russ
Great explanation of the fir circuit and cool test bed.
Mike
Thanks, Mike. This is really easy, but I don't want someone to walk away not knowing exactly how to do it.
Well That would have been me.
LOL
Mike
I wish you included in the video how you did wire it to the track or the bus, how did you solder the LED so on so forth, it is very clear on the "bread" but the track is different beast. Thanks for the great video.
Ron, Great job as usual. Once you try a few more scenes, your dreams will begin to focus on the next little animation. Just a thought, try a couple of logs around the fire. Some place to sit for marshmallows. Keep up the great work. Maybe you can get some of that Belly Button Lint from IMRROcom for tumbleweed?
EEWWW! I think I will get my tumbleweed elsewhere. I plan for a tent on the permanent scene. Some stacked firewood is a good idea.
Light Emitting Diode has 2 “leads”, the anode and the cathode, these are the leads of the “Diode”. Great video, thanks
Thank you for your video, it will help me in the future projects I have plan.
Thank you for your comment and thanks for watching.
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OMG LMAO this is GREAT! HAHAHAHA NICE ONE!! !
I am just starting a new small HO DC table and planing historically correct Native American aria with camp fires and hot rocks. I love this setup, but disabled and on a small fixed income, no DCC for me and thinking outside the box to do with what I got. So so far I have good results with $2 set of 4 battery tea lights. Not perfect, but making them serviceable, I could replace them from under..... they only have yellow LEDs, but I think with some work, I think they can be parted out and changed up with other LEDs and maybe use more the one per fire.... ? But yes, I wish I could go this rout.....
Now you need to add a sound shield and have some sounds of a fire crackling, crickets chirping and maybe an owl hooting
Chuck
I am making plans for sound, but where this camp fire will be is next to a river, so I think the dominating sound will be that of a waterfall.
I think it is Model Railroader videos has a piece on adding sound using a Arduino.
wonder if you could mount this under the table, with a hole so the light comes through but the size can be scaled down. Great work and it looks wonderful.
You could recess it down into the base of your layout, but you can also get smaller LEDs which is an easier solution.
Things are already getting too small for my eyes in N scale.
👍 Like / Cool demonstration / Gary here from Michigan 🚂
Thanks Gary.
I used the mh tiny88 much cheaper than using a nano. getting ready to put my second campfire down on my HO train layout
Why is the campfire so big/the figures so small??? And I'm in Scouts, so I KNOW WHAT M DOIN' AND I KNOW WHAT I SEE.
This was just a first experiment using what I had on hand.
Great video. I’m interested in controlling multiple Tortoise switch machines by push button using an Arduino. Is this possible? Are you familiar with how this might be done? Thank you.
I am just learning Arduino, so I cannot give you the details on how, but yes I know that this can be done. Here is a video that is a start. ua-cam.com/video/xamBnlvLJ9Q/v-deo.html
Looks good as a bon fire but seriously way too large for a camp fire. I just bought a camp fire module online for $13.00 Just give it power and it looks like a real fire. Mine was for a HO scale layout but would be easy to scale for N. I like arduino, but sometimes its cheaper and easier to buy ready made circuits.
Yeah, the sample was made with waybtoo large leds for video. I made one with 04-02 leds that is a perfect camp fire.
The "leads" on your LEDS are just that, "leads" not "diodes." The entire LED is a "diode." The leads are commonly referred to as either the anode, the positive side, or the cathode, negative side.
Can you light a model train on fire for a realistic crash scene? Stupid question.
I suppose its possible.
Ron's Trains N Things Never mind. I wouldn't want to melt the track. Just thought I'd ask.
Can arduonos do multiple things? Like could you power a small speaker with crackling fire sounds from the same board?
I'm not sure, but that is something I'm looking to.
It is possible to multi task the Arduino to do both light effects and play sound; however, it complicates the sketch.
That's what I figured and that makes sense.
I may have missed it in the video, but how does this arduino project get its power on your layout?
what's next, smores?
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To much work .to get one effect to work.Also how many arduino's do you need to get all the things you want to do on your layout? And how much code do you have to wight for each one? Seam's like a lot of work . when you get what you need for not a lot of money .And you just plug and play. no frustration when you don't get the arduino to what you want.
Setting up the electronics for this took less than an hour, including the copy-and-paste sketch, and cost less that $5 total. Seems pretty hard to beat to me.