{"id":12098,"date":"2015-03-04T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12098"},"modified":"2015-03-04T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:30:15","slug":"lionel-train-set-controlled-by-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12098","title":{"rendered":"Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dexterindustries.com\/Arduberry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lionel_Train_and_Hardware_Stack-lionel-train-switch-control-with-a-raspberry-pi-1024x576.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. For this, they used their Arduberry board (which brings Arduino-compatible control to the Pi) and some standard software and custom code. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/Arduberry\/example-projects-with-arduberry-and-raspberry-pi\/lionel-train-switch-control-with-a-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read how they did it here<\/a>. You can see a video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lionel Train Switch Control\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lkG9ID3V9PQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. 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Read how they did&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12098\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,20,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-gpio-boards","category-making"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12098\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. 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