Michael and I will both be traveling to spend the holidays with our families, so shipping may be slightly delayed. We wish all of you a merry Christmas with your families as well!
Author: Nathan Holmes
Time Locks – An Introduction In the real world, manual switches within signalled territory are protected by devices called “time locks”. The purpose of these is to prevent a switch from being opened in the face of an approaching train. When the conductor wants to open the switch, he unlocks it and starts the timer […]
The idea of a clock that runs faster than real time to compensate for the compression in our model world is nothing new. The idea has been with us since at least the 1960s. It provides a way to schedule our operating sessions, providing a sense of real time passage and urgency without needing literally […]
One of the most interesting electronic parts to come on the market lately is Berrett Hill’s Touch Toggles. They’re little electronic switches that operate by the proximity of your finger. There’s no mechanical movement, so you can put them behind acrylic control panel faceplates and other such and still operate them just by touching the […]
In order to make our open source hardware and software even easier for everyone to get and modify, we’re moving our projects off our old SVN repositories and over to GitHub, the collaborative open source git repository. Where previously many of these projects have lived in a single repository, we’re breaking them apart so that […]
For our customers in the US, hopefully you all had a good holiday with friends and family today. Now that we’ve all returned home, stuffed with turkey and dressing, it’s time for the other annual tradition – Black Friday! Stock up on the ISE products you need with 15% off everything, good through Sunday. When […]
Michael and I have this concept called INYAP. Between our day jobs, personal lives, ISE, and our hobbies, we both have very busy existences and often finding room to mature a project idea into a product is difficult. It stands for “I Need Yet Another Project,” said with every bit of sarcasm that you’d expect. […]
We always like to see what sort of tips, tricks, and clever uses our customers have come up with for our products. I thought I’d take a minute to pass along a couple recent uses for MRServo that customers have shared with us. Using lightweight extruded foam as a layout base has become pretty popular […]
Imagine that you could talk to the physical world as easily as you can read and write files on your computer. Imagine you could read a file, and read the temperature of an experiment on your bench or of your compost pile outside. Imagine you could simply write “on” to a file, and equipment across […]
Maybe you’ve noticed that funny looking gear logo on our advertisements or on our website and wondered, “What is that?” Maybe you’ve heard of open source, and you’re wondering how a bunch of products aimed at model railroaders really fit into that. What that logo means is that we release all of the design files […]
