Welcome to the Project VERA tutorial for EPICS / EtherCAT!
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**Project VERA** is a diploma project by students from the HTL Rennweg in Vienna, with the main focus being 
the modernization of the *Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator* (VERA) at the University of Vienna. 
One large aspect of this project is the introduction of a new process control system based on **EPICS**\ , which is meant 
to control the electronics mainly through **EtherCAT** modules made by Beckhoff. 
You can check us out on our `instagram <https://www.instagram.com/project_vera.official/>`_ or on our `website <https://project-vera.webflow.io/>`_

In the process of implementing EPICS and learning everything we could about it, we found that 
finding a place to begin was very difficult, and it took a long time until we got some basic things to work. 
As a result, we have decided to make our knowledge in form of our documentation and some tutorials public. 
We have also tried to make this as understandable and easy to use as possible.

To start from the beginning, check out our introduction_!

.. _introduction: introduction.html

.. note::

   This project is under active development.


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Guides

   introduction
   quick_setup
   kernel_setup
   manual_setup