MERG - Model Electronics Railway Group - About the Kitlocker

I have joined MERG. The Model Electronics Railway Group. A group that specifically focuses on the use of electronics and related fields in model railways.
It sounded right down my street so I signed up and I’ve been to a local face-to-face meeting as well as virtual meetings on some of the special interest groups including the Raspberry Pi and 3D printing groups. I won’t be able to attend all the meetings, especially as some of them clash with other volunteering or home activities, but I’m hoping to make the most of my membership and meet others interested in electronics and model railways.
Back to the concept of DCC I was looking at implementing something myself perhaps using an Arduino or Pico. The reason being that I wanted to be able to control DCC locomotives using a Raspberry Pi or microcontroller. It sounds fairly straight forward, effectively encoding signals as PWM signals which are switched as part of the track power. However as with many protocols it’s the nuances of supporting different things that makes it into a larger job, so it was great to see that MERG had already done much of the heavy lifting in creating a DCC based system that I can interface with a computer.
These are provided as Kits which are available through the kitlocker, an online store exclusively for member of MERG.
For more details see:
www.penguintutor.com/projects...
To become a member of MERG and to get access to the Kitlocker see: merg.org.uk/
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 About MERG
02:08 The MERG Kitlocker
02:45 Model railway DCC and future projects