"DCC-EX Open Source Model Railroading" - Paul Antoine (Everything Open 2023)

(Paul Antoine) Open source is an old idea within model railroading – with designs for interesting control, automation and animation circuits for model railway layouts being shared in the community for many decades prior to open source or open hardware appearing as formal concepts.

The DCC-EX project began as an attempt to provide a truly budget friendly, standards compliant, open source platform for controlling model railways. It now has an international team of experienced software engineers and new to programming hobbyists contributing to a platform with significant innovation and feature sets beyond commercial offerings. The DCC-EX team’s focus remains on ensuring accessibility for even the most modest model railroading budget.

This presentation will also cover the challenges presented to developers of open source software on sometimes poorly supported embedded environments, and in dealing with vendor specific extensions to supposedly open model railway protocol standards. Oh, and we’ll have a lot of fun looking at ways one can control, automate and animate model trains as well.

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Tue Mar 14 15:45:00 2023 at Clarendon Auditorium