Water Tower Animation

The gubbins for the inside of the water tower have come together at last. Once the noise maker was working, it was a straightforward matter of programming to make it all work – at least in the unit and integration tests! When I went to upload it to the board, however, there were still some […]

Yes! It Failed!

Model railroad time for the past couple of weeks has gone toward learning to program the ESP32 that will drive the water tower’s functions. I found a good YouTube tutorial from Dave’s Garage that helped me get started with the typical blinking LED and a little serial port output. Then I found the stepper motor […]