Maybe I'm setting the bar too high on this one, but my iPhone would seem like a great portable DCC controller.
Of course, it has no serial (other than comms via USB with a cable), but it does have WiFi, and could communicate with TCP via a server connected to the LocoNet.
The reconfigurable touch screen would give it a distinct advantage over any of the fancy (expensive) controllers on the market, and a good design would make the whole affair much more intuitive than the existing controllers (too many buttons, too many cryptic readouts, too many instructions).
Thoughts? Leads? Sounds like a killer app (on the train side) to me!
dh
Of course, it has no serial (other than comms via USB with a cable), but it does have WiFi, and could communicate with TCP via a server connected to the LocoNet.
The reconfigurable touch screen would give it a distinct advantage over any of the fancy (expensive) controllers on the market, and a good design would make the whole affair much more intuitive than the existing controllers (too many buttons, too many cryptic readouts, too many instructions).
Thoughts? Leads? Sounds like a killer app (on the train side) to me!
dh