Using Arduino with Adobe Flash for Model Railroading: Part 2

Well I said I was going to run the  Inter­fac­ing Flash and Arduino, from scratch tuto­r­ial from jpcote’s blog in my pre­vi­ous post on Using Arduino with Adobe Flash for Model Rail­road­ing. Well I had the chance to do that today and it worked bril­liantly! Hooray!I have taken a few pic­tures of my Arduino Duemi­lanove board with the Adafruit pro­to­shield installed with the LED in place along with a short video demon­strat­ing the LED blink­ing with the “Blink” sam­ple Adobe Flash pro­gram com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the Arduino updat­ing it’s sta­tus from wait­ing to blink­ing. Doesn;‘t sound like much and I’m sure you’re won­der­ing what this all has to do with model rail­road­ing so I’ll tell you — this opens up a whole new realm of pos­si­ble model rail­road Arduino hacks such as cre­at­ing a cool Flash con­trol inter­face that looks like a loco­mo­tive con­trol panel or a dis­patch­ers panel that inter­faces with sen­sors on the model rail­road lay­out for real­time data along with a micro cam­era on the model loco­mo­tive for real­time video with the abil­ity to con­trol turnouts, light­ing, and the trains them­selves. Who knows, the sky is the limit as I am an expe­ri­enced Flash pro­gram­mer and feel right at home work­ing in the Flash IDE with Action­script. I can’t wait to start con­trol­ling trains and col­lect­ing data from a model rail­road through an Arduino board using Adobe Flash.

Here is a short video show­ing my Arduino Duemi­lanove blink­ing an LED while com­mu­ni­cat­ing the Aruino’s sta­tus back to Flash: