Hardware Attached on Top (HAT) for Raspberry Pis

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

LCC Quad Stall Motor Driver with Sense for various SMB/MCUs

By RobertHeller | Filed in Model Railroad Addon Boards, Model Railroad HATs, News, Raspberry Pi HATs, Stuff For Sale | Comments Off on LCC Quad Stall Motor Driver with Sense for various SMB/MCUs

The Country Robot has designed four printed circuit boards that implement a Quad Stall Motor Driver with Sense. These boards use the same basic circuit. There is a HAT board for a Rasberry Pi B+, a Cape board for a Beagle Bone, a base board for a Pocket Beagle, and a base board for an […]

Friday, November 24th, 2017

Raspberry Pi Junction: How to Use a Raspberry Pi on your Model Railroad

By RobertHeller | Filed in Model Railroad HATs, Raspberry Pi HATs, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Raspberry Pi Junction: How to Use a Raspberry Pi on your Model Railroad

What it is This article is about Raspberry Pi Junction, a simple demo layout featuring a simple interlocking off the main line at Mile Post 314 that goes past the Mad Hatter Pie Shop. The junction itself and the adjacent blocks are controlled by a Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+ (sirtopemhat), which has five HAT […]

Tuesday, November 14th, 2017

Now available bare Raspberry Pi “HAT” boards for Model Railroading

By RobertHeller | Filed in Model Railroad HATs, News, Raspberry Pi HATs | Comments Off on Now available bare Raspberry Pi “HAT” boards for Model Railroading

The Country Robot is now offering 3 bare Raspberry Pi "HAT" boards that are useful for Model Railroad Automation. There is a board for managing stall motor switch machine, and two I/O boards. There is also an octal LED driver board. All three HATs are supported by Deepwoods Software’s Model Railroad System. These are bare […]