 There it is. Don't move. I guess we're waiting for it. Okay? So yeah, my name's Steve. I'm more of a technology person than a modeler. I like the electronic piece of it, the programming side of things. I've been working on this kind of stuff for quite a long time with AJ. I think it's September 11th and some of you remember that day. I think it's changed a lot. I was on the show and we were showing a local pump. If anybody ever played with that, that was one of my creations back then. I've always kind of stayed in touch with it. Now what we've done is we've got a little demo case over here and I wanted just to show you the app. Just kind of give some feedback from people and see what you guys think of this. In the box over here, what we have is the three boxes that you're kind of familiar with as far as the form factor, the PR3, which is the USB interface that you're familiar with, the S64, the switch control, and then the new box, the Wi-Fi looks exactly the same. Same local net input. It can also be powered from an external source or it will take power off the local net bus. And then the Zephyr there in the case. There's also a block detection hardware. The layout is then here that's on the table that I'm hopefully going to be connected to here. It has signaling underneath it. There's a little signaling mass there. A couple switches that I can control. And the apps that we're looking at doing here, we call it, they're actually down here unfortunately, but it all will bring it up in a second. We have the control tower one and we're labeling it that way for a single throttle configuration. We're also envisioning our control tower two, which would be a dual configuration, and then some utility applications. There'll be one that will allow you to do configurations of the command station. We're also envisioning some signaling configuration, maybe some decoder programming. So let me just bring up the one we're starting things off, control tower one. The beauty of the Wi-Fi system is that it is everywhere. I mean, name it. We've got Wi-Fi coming out of ears. And it makes sense to use that interface as a medium to talk to this. So that box is basically a bridge. It's bridging Wi-Fi devices to local net. I'm going to go up. Okay. And the app, you've got a little switch down at the bottom. So this is the screen that you'll come to. There'll be a configuration section here. You can just click on the control tower, and there'll be some modes. We're still working out some of the logistics. This is the beta version. You'll be able to not only operate in a standalone mode, which means that you don't need any computer hardware. You buy that box, you have a Wi-Fi device, and it will connect peer-to-peer to it and allow you to control those devices. That's important for some of us that don't want to get the computer out and boot it up. And for some that do like that, there's still an option for that there that we call our connected mode. And what that mode is for is allows you to then configure the box to connect it to your home network. So then it's just basically a device hanging off your home network. And then it allows you to tunnel in through that port, not only controlling this, but also you can get internet connection. So you've got more versatility as far as that configuration. Then if I go into the throttle, one of the things that we're really looking at is we want to do just a gorgeous user interface, because that's really what this kind of device lends itself to. Apple's done a fabulous job on this. This is kind of a first start at it, giving you all the functions. TrackPower, so I can come up here and click on TrackPower. TrackPower just went on over there. Nice mode if I want to come in here, select the train. I think I have 18 sitting down there. Hit a direction. You get some feedback on that if I want to make the train go, bring up the throttle, blow the horn. I mean, that was pretty easy to get running. Hit stop. You got some nice visual feedback there. A really cool mode is going to be hard. Oh, I guess I could show this. Let's say that I was running forward and I want to take advantage of some of the sensors that are in the iPad. I can turn on tilt control, and now when I tilt, I can stop either direction by simply tilting it. Oops, lost my connection. Help me out a bit. The connection there is still good. It's my video. Sorry. Sorry about that. Let me just have that in. So we're taking advantage of some of the sensors that are in the device. I didn't have a good idea. Let's actually hook it up. So that's the throttle page, and I was going to show you just a couple of the features of that. Bear with me a second here. Let me plug it back in. So we wanted to develop this interface that just popped out at you. All the function keys that you're familiar with. You've got LEDs, so when you click on them, you're going to get feedback with the little LED. We're still deciding how that final look and feel will be. The other thing that you can do here is you can increment the speed. So if you want to bring it up one at a time, a little more gradual, you can stop it. I can go to my individual switch control. So now I can label the switches. I can throw close. I've got two switches here, and you'll probably just be able to hear them. There it goes, switch to toggling. So I can label the walls, all gets saved. You can label the route. If you want to get more exotic, you can come down here and actually set up a route. So now I can set up a number of switches and I'm now throwing whatever string that you put in here that defines your layout. You can set up some pretty exotic routes. So that's the first app that's kind of targeted for the Wi-Fi box. The other ones that we're planning will just kind of give you a sneak preview of things. Control Tower 2 is... it's targeted for a two throttle configuration and you'll see what it looks like here in a second. I've got to get into them. There it is. So it'll have basically two throttles and if you think about this, this can go a lot of different ways. I mean, we could easily do four, eight and you name it. And basically what happens here is once you make a connection, the active throttle the tilt will still work based on the throttle that's being used. So we're experimenting with some of those things now. And then let's go back to the this throttle here and what I'm going to do is back up. I can power the system down just like you used to with your normal throttle. It also has a recall mechanism so up here if you click on this little top part you're now going to get a stack of view of your trains that were connected and you can scroll through them. There isn't any selected now because I just opened the app. But this would be your typical Apple recall a locomotive so you don't have to type back in every time the number of the train. So that's one of the new things we're working on and should be available soon. Yeah, it'll reside at Apple as far as all apps to go through the app store and it's really nice because of the support mechanism that's done there and the automation that it has. We're also looking at I've got a prototype of it on the iPhone. Sorry, I can't plug it in but it basically will have the same kind of look and feel single throttle. A lot of people say well this is pretty expensive to run your train. Well the thought is you've already purchased this for a totally different reason. There's an app for that kind of thing. It's pretty inexpensive if you already own the hardware. It'll also work on the older 3G phones as well as the eye touches so if you do want to get in the market and don't want to sign up for a phone plan you can certainly go down that path as well and just pick up an inexpensive iPad excuse me, an eye touch and basically get the control working as well. But we really see the big thing coming from the iPad as far as what you can do with it and this is just touching the iceberg here I think of things to come. Not for everybody but certainly my kid has always been telling me that why can't I control the train. This is what they're used to so we see that generation definitely moving up and getting more and more exciting on that. So, any questions? Yeah? The Wi-Fi box can I replace the PR1 on that? There's no plan to replace any devices on that because it's going to transmit I can put it in my own network which means I can put it in my computer. You could, yes. And then I can use the computer without I'm sure that I don't have a computer. That is a possibility. So, this was conceived in my view for a simple connection Wi-Fi that's it. I mean however it transforms itself great, let the form take it from there. It's just a connection point to get wireless Wi-Fi to local net could also do a Bluetooth although you find much more Wi-Fi than anything else but we did consider a Bluetooth about one point. Okay? Yes? Where was that? What security do you have on it? Or is this going to be the first case of a railroad getting hacked? No. Good question. So, Wi-Fi security was built from the ground up to get extremely good security what you would do is you go back if I just come back to this mode if I switch into connected mode now you're going to enter in your network SSID that you have at your home and a WAP key and most people are going to have a pretty secure network nowadays we've seen a lot of the older days where you have no security but that's pretty much gone now. Does require you to enter a key and then the Wi-Fi will make a peer-to-peer connection to your wireless home router very secure it's going to use the latest WAP2 or whatever you have enabled in your box if you choose that method if you choose the simpler standalone method now it's a peer-to-peer and there's very minimal security and sure that's a mode where you are a little more exposed but we're talking about a model train here so we're not too concerned about that so you have the option of how secure you want to make it. Do you have any application where you would have a camera in the locomotive so it doesn't get involved? So that's already I'll say no more we're in the US we're considering all of that Now Can I have a mic for coffee? Yeah there's also a lot of sound built this is coming from here so we're going to give you different sound effects that you can bring in from just this kind of view to add to the whole experience Oh, one question Yes I'm pretty naive about this but what happens if you control the trains and they get a phone call? You know what absolutely that happens to me more times and I've done a lot of demos in wireless communication for home automation and it seems like every time I do a demo I get a phone call and the way they've got the OS written it'll gracefully drop in the background the phone will take priority, you take the call as soon as you leave the call the app fills back up Now if you were having a, in this case if the train was being controlled and you because I've got in-stots here you would probably want to stop the call pretty quick but in a continuous layout obviously that would not be Sorry? Oh, okay That can occur here as well That's why I prefer the iPad in my preference that's what I'm going to be using but we're going to do the iPhone as well Is the future going to be possible to have multiple iPads and multiple iPads? Another one that's very interesting Yes, definitely We're looking at a system right now where we can put multiple iPads together kind of like what you do in the process And you use it to take the radio and I mean radio speaking Yes So one of the beauties of connecting the Wi-Fi box to your home network you've got that backbone of a wireless network to an IP that's outside your house Then in the app what we'll expose is let's say I want to connect into a local union specific scanner It will feed that information right to the iPad and give you that even more depth I actually think that's cool I like your thinking something a little simpler whereby instead of having offering your top area headsets to get in touch with the diskbites or the TPMO I don't know what to do Yeah, voice over IP kind of thing Yeah, you can become a radio as well Sure, that's a very good suggestion, yes Send your religious questions, what about Anno? Anno, what was that? No idea what that is Oh, you got it, okay, there you go You can ask that gentleman We're not Apple's development is the best in the world absolutely by far and I'll stand up to that all day long It's a fabulous environment so we're kind of dedicated to providing apps on this platform There is a Wi-Fi interface so I'm just pretty open with that Okay, anything else? Some of you guys think you might want to use how many iPhone users are curious Okay, well, that tells us Great, alright Well, thank you