Internet-Controlled Train Set

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 12, 2005 @11:33AM from the ain't-no-junk dept.

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."

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Odd combination? by Tony+Hoyle · 2005-07-12 11:46 · Score: 3, Insightful

.NET powered by PHP?

If you're using .NET just make an aspx and control things that way... if you're not there's half a dozen ways via PHP (perl+XMLRPC springs to mind).

Mixing them just seems to be a headache, since making MS code integrate with non-MS code is always harder than just sticking to one or the other.