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lbriner 23 hours ago [-]
I love this stuff. Seems like a massive untapped market if you get in partnership with a manufacturer. There are enough train buffs around the world, although I guess the tricky bit is that the dashboards are all different.
I found it surprising that despite having amazing international supply chains, it can still be hard to source electro-mechanical parts. I wondered about knocking up an NX signalling panel as a nice to have to my layout but sourcing those latching push/pull buttons is equally difficult although maybe they were only really used on the real thing and the demand has disappeared along with the supply.
Grombobulous 13 hours ago [-]
It’s not really as complete of controller as it’s mostly just one lever and some standard controller buttons, but the Zuiki Mascon is reasonably decent for Japanese market sims and the game Running Train on Steam.
It’s also very affordable and compact which is a plus.
Wow, really clean design. I'm surprised that you could get hold of original hardware. Not sure how much of it is commodity industrial equipment Vs bespoke buttons, etc.
22 hours ago [-]
ddevnyc 19 hours ago [-]
I would love a controller like that for my editor, or my LLM. That would make coding so much more fun.
warpech 15 hours ago [-]
You can control your computer using MIDI interface. Sometimes we demo our JavaScript UI components using AKAI LPD8 MKII
ddevnyc 9 hours ago [-]
Haha really? How do you hook up midi to the UI?
cryptopian 18 hours ago [-]
I can't find it sadly, but somebody made an 80s style industrial control panel for a SQL server deployment, with all the clicky radio buttons and 7-segment displays you could wish for.
m463 18 hours ago [-]
maybe only "the sign" remains...
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!
ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND
POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN.
DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS
POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
I found it surprising that despite having amazing international supply chains, it can still be hard to source electro-mechanical parts. I wondered about knocking up an NX signalling panel as a nice to have to my layout but sourcing those latching push/pull buttons is equally difficult although maybe they were only really used on the real thing and the demand has disappeared along with the supply.
It’s also very affordable and compact which is a plus.
Train controller database: https://traincontrollerdb.marcriera.cat/index.html