Ivo Busko

I am a NASA retired software engineer and astrophysicist that acquired a taste for playing with automation of LEGO trains. Stared with a 60197 set that was a gift to our grandson. It quickly evolved into a long-track, two-train system with switches and crossings. That presented, to my software engineer eyes, a software development challenge that I've been tackling for the past year or so. With lots of fun. I have at last a version that I believe can be useful for other hobbyists. See the train forum for my post with more details.

I recently made available a free library of control and automation software for Powered UP (Bluetooth) trains. I’ve been working on it for the past year or so as a personal project, but I believe there might be someone out there in the hobbyist community that might benefit from it. The software is free (MIT license), and entirely written in Python. It is available as source code. That way, it can either be used in its entirety, or just parts of it can be plucked out and used in your own software project. Or even just as a source of ideas on how to solve certain software problems unique to a train control system. The high-level description of the software is in the top page of the software repository at https://github.com/cuernodegazpacho/legotrain There, you can find links for a few videos. There is also a link for a page with colorimetry measurements I made for some LEGO colors (the system relies on the Powered UP 88007 Color & Distance Sensor). Please let me know in case you have questions or discussion topics.