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Mole Beacon Light
Introduction
For our Warnemünde section, which includes a water area, we also need a lighthouse so that our ships can travel safely.
Since Warnemünde has two Mole Beacon Lights (one green and one red), I decided to recreate the green beacon light. I did some research and found some good reference images for this project.
First, I replicated the building in OnShape. This was not as easy as I initially thought, but in the end, I was successful.
The more interesting part was the electronics. I used an ESP32 as the controller and decided to connect it to the System Control with my generic BLE system. Then, I tested if I could replicate the beacon signal (2 seconds on and 2 seconds off). It was the first time I had used hardware timers and interrupts for the LEDs. The beacon's LED will illuminate transparent PLA, making the light visible.
A more challenging part will be the outdoor lights, as the building has two of them. I will try to use 0402 3V LEDs and hope that I can print a miniature enclosure to mimic the real lamps.
Design
MCAD
The modell was created in OnShape. More about that later.
ECAD
The two PCBs are created within KiCad. The WIP rendering of the main (LED) pcb could be seen here.
Source Code
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