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====== MERG related courses ====== | ====== MERG related courses ====== | ||
- | If you know about any other relevant courses not listed here, please add them. | + | If you know about any other relevant courses not listed here, in particular those in other areas, please add them. |
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Note that you do not have to be a MERG member to come on these courses. | Note that you do not have to be a MERG member to come on these courses. | ||
- | **PLEASE NOTE** that all courses are currently postponed until it becomes safe to run them again. | + | These courses are organised by a group of MERG members for the benefit of other MERG members and railway modellers in general. |
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+ | All bookings for courses that were postponed over the last couple of years will be honoured for future courses. | ||
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+ | If you already have a booking for any course, you will be contacted directly by email about the arrangements and dates. | ||
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+ | The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues. | ||
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+ | See also the [[public: | ||
- | In the meantime, we will also be running online versions of each course on the originally scheduled dates, using the Zoom teleconferencing system. | ||
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+ | ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher ===== | ||
- | ===== Introduction to CBUS ===== | + | ** 22-24th October 2022 (Rushden) ** |
- | ** 28th to 30th March 2020 (Rushden)** | + | **A few places still available!** |
- | By popular demand, we have arranged another | + | This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses. |
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+ | This is a weekend course for JMRI power users who want to take it on to partial or full automation. | ||
The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | ||
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | Station, Northamptonshire. |
- | For those just starting out in CBUS, this weekend course will take you from first principles through building CBUS kits to setting up CBUS operations. | + | As a pre-requisite |
- | This course assumes no previous knowledge of CBUS. | + | Click below for more details: |
- | Bookings are now open. | + | [[public: |
- | Click below for more details: | ||
- | [[public: | + | ---- |
+ | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Autumn weekend - 4-6th November2022 ===== | ||
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+ | The Missenden Autumn weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, bookings are open - last few places remaining as of 12th October. | ||
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+ | See the website for more details: | ||
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+ | [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== More CBUS ===== | + | ===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 ===== |
- | ** 25th to 27th April 2020 (Rushden)** | ||
- | This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further. | + | For 2023, we are publishing a list of our Northamptonshire courses and inviting expressions of interest. |
- | Particular emphasis | + | **We will not run any courses unless we have received sufficient expressions of interest** - so if you would like to come on a course, please send us an email of your interest. |
- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest: |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
- | This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working. | + | * General kit building workshop weekend |
+ | * Introduction to CBUS development | ||
+ | * Programming PICs | ||
+ | * Programming Arduinos | ||
+ | * Our usual Intro and More CBUS courses | ||
+ | * Our usual 3 JMRI courses, Intro, signalling/ | ||
+ | * Introduction to DCC | ||
+ | * Decoder Pro | ||
+ | * PCB Design | ||
+ | * 3D printing ++ | ||
+ | * Weathering | ||
+ | * Build a MERG DCC system in a weekend | ||
+ | * Templot | ||
- | Bookings are now open. | + | ++ Subject to finding a tutor |
- | Click below for more details. | + | The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire. |
- | [[public:More CBUS Course|More CBUS weekend course | + | More details |
+ | If you are interested in one or more of the above, and would most likely come if we ran that course, please drop an email to [[eastmids@merg.org.uk]] | ||
+ | If you are interested in a course that is not on the above list, please also send us an email, we may well add it to the list. | ||
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- | ===== STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO ===== | ||
- | ** 30th May to 1st June 2020 (Rushden) ** | + | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 3-5th March 2023 ===== |
- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | The Missenden March weekend 2022 has now been scheduled, and bookings are open. |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
- | JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway. | + | See the website for more details: |
- | The course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI and takes you through from first principles. | + | [[http:// |
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- | Bookings are now open | ||
- | Click below for more details. | + | ===== Introduction to CBUS ===== |
- | [[public: | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another |
- | ---- | + | Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled. |
- | ===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling ===== | + | For those just starting out in CBUS, this weekend course will take you from first principles through building CBUS kits to setting up CBUS operations. |
- | ** 12th-14th September 2020 (Rushden)** | + | This course assumes no previous knowledge of CBUS. |
- | This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses. | + | Click below for more details: |
- | The course | + | [[public: |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
- | This is a weekend course for those already familiar and competent with the basics of JMRI. | + | ---- |
- | As a pre-requisite you should have attended our introduction to JMRI Panel Pro course, or be fluent with drawing a layout diagram in the Layout Editor, setting up turnouts & sensors, turnout feedback, linking from a Layout Editor Panel to the physical layout & the basics of train detection. | + | ===== JMRI Decoder |
- | Bookings | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
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+ | What this space for when the next course is scheduled. | ||
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+ | This is a weekend course on making use of JMRI Decoder Pro software to program your DCC locos, and how to make use of the features of the loco roster. | ||
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+ | A familiarity with basic DCC concepts is assumed. | ||
Click below for more details: | Click below for more details: | ||
- | [[public:jmripart2course|JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing and Signalling | + | [[public:decoderprocourse|Decoder Pro course details]] |
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- | ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher | + | ===== More CBUS ===== |
- | ** Next course | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another |
- | This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses. | + | Watch this space for when the next course |
- | This is a weekend course | + | This course |
- | As a pre-requisite you should be a fluent JMRI user, having attended our Introduction | + | Particular emphasis on configuring CBUS in FLiM and using the universal CANMIO firmware. |
- | Course details will be published when the next course | + | This course |
- | [[public:jmripart3course|JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher | + | Click below for more details. |
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+ | [[public:More CBUS Course|More CBUS weekend | ||
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- | =====3D Printing courses===== | + | ===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO ===== |
- | [[public:3dprintingcourse|3D Printing]] | + | See the list, above, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
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+ | Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled. | ||
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+ | JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway. | ||
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+ | The course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI and takes you through from first principles. | ||
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+ | Click below for more details. | ||
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+ | [[public:introtojmricourse|Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro course details]] | ||
- | None currently scheduled. | ||
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- | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers weekends | + | ===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling |
- | The Missenden Railway Modellers Weekends are workshops with expert tutors from MERG on hand. The Autumn weekend every October includes electronics classes that come with expert MERG tutors, covering all aspects | + | See the list, above, of possible courses |
- | Bookings and more details are via the Missenden Railway Modellers website. | + | Watch this space for when the next course is scheduled. |
- | [[http:// | + | This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses. |
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+ | This is a weekend course for those already familiar and competent with the basics of JMRI. | ||
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+ | As a pre-requisite you should have attended our introduction to JMRI Panel Pro course, or be fluent with drawing a layout diagram in the Layout Editor, setting up turnouts & sensors, turnout feedback, linking from a Layout Editor Panel to the physical layout & the basics of train detection. | ||
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+ | Click below for more details: | ||
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+ | [[public: | ||
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+ | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 30th July to 5th August 2023 ===== | ||
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+ | The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. Although there is not usually specific electronics content, there are generally some modellers working with electronics and experts on hand to assist with whatever you are working on. | ||
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+ | See the website for more details: | ||
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+ | [[http:// | ||
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=====Links===== | =====Links===== |
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