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:
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