Internet-Controlled Train Set

Eric Barch writes "Using a servo connected to a Mini SSC II and wired into a dedicated server through the serial port, the Control Our Junk team has created a working train set controlled from any computer on the Internet with a few ports open and Java installed. The trains speed can be modified on the control page, which uses a PHP script to send commands to a .NET application sitting on the server. When the .NET application recieves the PHP command it sends the data to a serial port, and in turn, changes the speed of the train. The train set is running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is quite fun to operate from the dual webcams mounted on a top down and side view of the train set. If you would like more information, or to control the train set visit controlourjunk.com/ and take the train for a spin."

Comments

Now if it had a few exploding bridges...

[dyfet]

A remote controlled "adams family" train set would be a lot more fun :).

What's better than crashing a train?

[rainmayun]

Crashing a server and a train!

Control Our Junk...

[ColonelKernel]

Has anyone found the controls to their webserver yet?

Horrible

[42Penguins]

Eric Barch, I would be angry at you for posting a story for the all the multitudes of /. to control this poor man's train, probably causing it (and the server) to crash. Fortunately, it doesn't work!

Control Our Junk?

[ajlitt]

Worst... Site... Name... EVAR!

Re:Control Our Junk?

[appleLaserWriter]

I must admit, the site contained far fewer camwhores than I expected.

Re:Control Our Junk?

[TWX]

I admittedly did a doubletake when I saw the name.

Couldn't that domain name apply to a company that allows surfers to add Viagra or muscle relaxants to a patient's IV drip to cause differing reactions?

Re:Control Our Junk?

[tunabomber]

Yeah, I thought the website would allow me to control a junk (presumably owned by the webmaster), but it turned out to be something involving toy trains instead.

Lame. I wanted to commit the REAL kind of piracy over the Internet for once!

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Ooops..., the Slashdot effect!

offtopic ... but can't go unsaid

[apachetoolbox]

To whomever thought up that websites color and menu... god damn you. god damn you to hell.

remote fire starting exploit!

[hilaryduff]

10 motor 1 20 motor 0 30 goto 10

the whole internet controlling a trainset means...

[SuperBanana]

... MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist mentioning one of the most famous 4chan memes. It's what instantly came to mind.)

So It's Come Full Circle

[Comatose51]

Hackerdom takes some of its roots from the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Now after many decades, the hackers return to the model trains.

Speaking of model trains, what do breasts and model trains have in common? They've both meant for kids but it's adults who end up playing with them.

Breasts, hackers, and model trains all in one post! It's like the Slashdot Triple Crown!

They put this on Slashdot?

[neo]

If they don't have 100,000 trains then there's going to be some really f*cked up action on those tracks. What the hell where they thinking? Three russian hacker groups are already fighting for control of the B & O Switch engine 5006 Diesel, and half of Berkley is trying to ram the American Flyer # 613 GN Box Car off the table.

Bastards.

Re:the whole internet controlling a trainset means

[RailRide]

... MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!

Truth can be as strange as fiction:)

---PCJ

Re:dozens of subscribers, dude

[shawn(at)fsu]

Whoa that sounded a bit like Darth.

Don't be to proud of this technological terror you've created Cmd Taco the fact that we can take down a web server running on a home dsl line proves nothing next to the power of the force