All Aboard The Hack Train: Nottingham’s LED Revival
A retro UK railway LED departure board was restored using an Arduino Uno R4 WiFi and upgraded with a WIZnet W5500 Ethernet module to create a stable, real-time,
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Restoring a Railway LED Departure Board with WIZnet W5500 Ethernet This project revives a decommissioned UK railway LED departure board using modern hardware, transforming it into a real-time, network-connected information display. Interestingly, the controller chosen for the restoration was an Arduino Uno R4 WiFi — a board that already includes built-in wireless connectivity. So why did the team end up adding a WIZnet W5500 Ethernet module instead of relying on the onboard Wi-Fi? That question became one of the more intriguing aspects of the restoration, and exploring the reasoning reveals…
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