[Accrs] Layout First Person View

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

The first paragraph reminds me that we need a house cleaning upstairs.  
It's a mess.  Dumpster time.

Gary

On 5/19/2019 11:05 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Joel Clark  clark.joel.a at gmail.com
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> All,
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> I went to the layout this afternoon to test out some new equipment and 
> check on the lights. On the HO side one of the show halogens is out so 
> I will order an LED replacement and wire it in later. Also the 
> upstairs room reeked and sure enough I found a dead rat on the floor. 
> I threw the rat in the trash outside and put "Rat 'Sorb" to 
> decontaminate the area.
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> On to the subject of the email. I've been messing around with drones 
> and found that the ubiquitousness of drones and smartphones has 
> provided us consumers with a glut of cheap micro-sized live action 
> camera equipment. For a mere $60 on Amazon.com, I was able to procure 
> a micro FPV camera, 2 drone batteries, charger, and an FPV phone 
> antenna. The whole rig is small enough to easily fit inside an HO 
> locomotive with some minor modification, and effortlessly into O 
> scale. Overall I was quite impressed with the results, watching live 
> instant video from my train straight to my phone, with the option to 
> record. The picture quality is not perfect, and no sound, but given 
> the low cost point I couldn't have expected better. Other antennas can 
> be bought that have VGA out to go to a TV or other screen. Oh the 
> modern world in which we live.
> I've uploaded a video I took today to Youtube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eMujLRy-sc
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> If you find this interesting let me know and I'll share specifics 
> about what I bought.
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> Thanks!
> -Joel
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