Bruder Piggyback Forklift

[Zabco]

Originally Posted by dremu

Wrt lighting, one word: Arduino. Yes, you gotta learn a bit of "programming", but there are a bazillion tutorials on the web so it's not a word to be afraid of.

-- A

Actually I have played around with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis since the Arduino Duemilanove board came out. I just don't think that there is room inside the lift for even a nano sized board. The nano has a 30mA limit per pin so even with just 2 LEDs on a circuit you might need to also incorporate a switching transistor besides the resistors. I used a RasPi Zero as the basis for my portable message sign that I built a couple of years ago. I recently acquired some arduino nano clones that have packet radio capability that I am going to try to integrate into another project that I'll post up if it works out. I would really love to see some one do one of these piggyback conversions and be able to incorporate lighting, just not going to be me at this time.