Comment by richardhawthorn

8 hours ago

Hi everyone, Richard here, the creator of these traintrackr boards. It's great to see this on the front page!

I've been designing PCBs for years, and designed over 250 at last count.

We have a couple of products in the pipeline to come out this year, but I'd love to hear what you think we should build next.

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afandian  1 hour ago

Curious why you went with a matrix over WS2812 or similar. That PCB looks like it was painful to route!

  • richardhawthorn  2 minutes ago

    We switched to a matrix partly for price, partly for improved reliability.

    Regular RGB LEDs are a lot cheaper than the WS2812, around 6x cheaper when we made the decision to switch, which adds up when you have 768 of them.

    WS2812 LEDs are much easier to route, but if one dies then every LED routed after that one stops lighting up.

ionwake  8 hours ago

fantastic work Ive been a fan for a few years!

Maybe a general "train to newcastle / Birmingham" map like this? https://map-shop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ms00004-uk...

A wimbledon tram one could be good and might appeal to the richer demographic ( im not sure ). https://www.croydon-tramlink.co.uk/info/gen/images/RouteMap....

Finally an overnight sleeper train only (europe) could be good: https://media.timeout.com/images/105981668/image.webp

Just suggestions I have no idea if these are good ideas.