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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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The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues. | The dates for 2022 are now confirmed with the venues. | ||
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+ | See also the [[public: | ||
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- | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers | + | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers |
- | The Autumn | + | The Missenden |
- | The weekend this year includes courses on Locomotive kit construction, | + | See the website for more details: |
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- | Bookings are open, see the website for more details | + | |
[[http:// | [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher ===== | ||
- | ** 6th-8th November 2021 (Rushden) ** | + | ===== Introduction to CBUS ===== |
- | This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses. | + | ** 12-14th March 2022 ** |
- | This is a weekend | + | The course |
+ | Station, Northamptonshire. | ||
- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
- | As a pre-requisite | + | What this space for when the next course is scheduled. |
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | This course assumes no previous knowledge of CBUS. | ||
Click below for more details: | Click below for more details: | ||
- | [[public:jmripart3course|JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher | + | [[public:CBUS Intro Course|Introduction to CBUS weekend |
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===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster ===== | ===== JMRI Decoder Pro – Programming DCC locos and managing the roster ===== | ||
- | ** 22nd-24th January | + | ** 19-21st March 2022 (Rushden) |
- | This is a weekend | + | The course |
+ | Station, Northamptonshire. | ||
- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
+ | 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. | ||
A familiarity with basic DCC concepts is assumed. | A familiarity with basic DCC concepts is assumed. | ||
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- | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Spring weekend - 4-6th March 2022 ===== | + | ===== More CBUS ===== |
- | The Missenden March weekend | + | ** 23rd-25th April 2022 ** |
- | See the website for more details: | + | The course |
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- | [[http:// | + | |
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- | ===== Introduction to CBUS ===== | + | |
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- | ** 12-14th March 2022 ** | + | |
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- | The course | + | |
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. | + | See the list, at the bottom of this page, of possible courses for 2023, and if you are interested in this or another course next year, please let us know. |
- | This course | + | What this space for when the next course |
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- | Click below for more details: | + | |
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- | [[public: | + | |
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- | ===== More CBUS ===== | + | |
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- | ** 23rd-25th April 2022 ** | + | |
This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further. | This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further. | ||
Particular emphasis on configuring CBUS in FLiM and using the universal CANMIO firmware. | Particular emphasis on configuring CBUS in FLiM and using the universal CANMIO firmware. | ||
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- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | ||
- | 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. | 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. | ||
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- | ===== STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO ===== | + | ===== JMRI Part 1 - STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO ===== |
- | ** 21-23 May 2022 ** | + | ** 16-18th July 2022 - NEW DATE! ** |
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===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 7-13th August 2022 ===== | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Summer Retreat - 7-13th August 2022 ===== | ||
- | The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. | + | The Missenden summer retreat is 7 days of uninterrupted modelling. |
See the website for more details: | See the website for more details: | ||
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- | ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher ===== | ||
- | ** 22-24th October 2022 (Rushden) ** | ||
- | This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses. | + | ===== Missenden Railway Modellers Autumn weekend - 4-6th November2022 ===== |
- | This is a weekend | + | The Missenden Autumn |
- | The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden | + | See the website for more details: |
- | Station, Northamptonshire. | + | |
- | As a pre-requisite you should be a fluent JMRI user, having attended our Introduction and part 2 courses, or be comfortable with setting up panels in the Layout Editor, blocks and train detection, pathing and signalling. | + | [[http:// |
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- | Click below for more details: | ||
- | [[public: | + | ===== POSSIBLE COURSES FOR 2023 ===== |
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- | =====3D Printing courses===== | ||
- | [[public: | + | For 2023, we are publishing a list of our Northamptonshire courses and inviting expressions of interest. |
- | None currently scheduled. | + | Here are the possible courses we have thought of so far, we could run up to 6 courses that generate sufficient interest: |
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- | ===== Weathering | + | * 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 | ||
- | We have no weathering courses currently scheduled for Rushden Transport Museum, but see the Missenden weekends above, where weathering classes are available. | + | ++ Subject to finding a tutor |
+ | The courses would take place at one of our venues in Northamptonshire. | ||
+ | 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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