When an Arduino PLC is the right choice for industrial automation Nov 12, 2026 Arduino Industrial An Arduino PLC is the right choice when the job is deterministic I/O control with standard industrial protocols: read sensors, drive valves and motors, talk Modbus, and do it the same way every cycle.... Read more
ESP32 PLC on the plant floor: when Wi-Fi, LoRa or 4G is the right link Nov 9, 2026 Arduino Industrial An ESP32 PLC is the right controller when the job needs a network more than it needs a big CPU: machines that must send data, remote sites without cable, or equipment a phone should control. The real ... Read more
Arduino CLI for Arduino PLC: compile and upload on Windows and Linux Oct 27, 2026 Arduino Industrial Arduino CLI is the official command line tool of Arduino. With it you can program an Arduino PLC (M-Duino Arduino PLC or Ardbox Arduino PLC) without opening the IDE: add the Industrial Shields boards ... ArduinoPLC Linux Uploading Windows Read more
Raspberry Pi 5 vs Arduino UNO Q for industrial automation Oct 26, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry Short answer: Raspberry Pi 5 is the stronger Linux computer: a faster CPU, up to 16 GB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet and PCIe. Arduino UNO Q is the better fit when Linux has to work next to deterministic I... Read more
Ardbox Q, the first industrial PLC with Arduino UNO Q: how it works and where it fits Oct 26, 2026 Arduino Industrial In many installations, control and data still live in separate devices. A PLC runs the process. Next to it, a small PC or gateway collects the data, shows it on a screen and sends it to other systems.... Read more
Send commands from a database to a PLC and move pneumatic actuators Oct 21, 2026 Arduino Industrial To send commands from a database to a PLC, you store each command as a row with an id and a status, you move new rows to the PLC through a small service (MQTT, Modbus TCP or a web API), and your PLC w... Read more
Industrial cybersecurity basics for PLC networks: segmentation without an IT department Sep 28, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT Most industrial networks are flat: every PLC, HMI and engineering laptop sits on the same broadcast domain. Segmentation does not require a security team or a six figure project. It starts with a mana... Read more
EtherNet/IP vs Profinet vs Modbus TCP: choosing the right fieldbus for a new line Sep 17, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT Short answer: choose Modbus TCP for simple I/O, monitoring and SCADA links where a few milliseconds of jitter do not matter; EtherNet/IP if the plant runs on Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) controllers; and ... Read more
How to choose between M-Duino and Ardbox for industrial retrofitting Sep 1, 2026 Arduino Industrial Retrofitting a legacy machine with an Arduino PLC usually comes down to one practical question: does the application need onboard Ethernet and a higher I/O count, or does it need to switch loads direc... Read more
An OEE dashboard cannot tell you why the line stopped Sep 1, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT An OEE percentage tells you the line ran below target. It does not tell you why. Closing that gap does not require a smarter model, it requires industrial telemetry that already carries the answer: a ... Read more
Remote SSH access to a Raspberry PLC over cellular Aug 25, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry A Raspberry PLC deployed in a field, a solar microgrid or a wastewater lift station is often hours from the nearest engineer. Reaching it does not require proprietary software or a custom integration,... Read more
Episode 3: One digital input, many meanings: a production counter on an ESP32 PLC Jul 28, 2026 From Prompt to Plant From Prompt to Plant is the series where we share, openly and in full, the prompts that let you program an Industrial Shields PLC with Claude Code. The AI writes the code; you validate it on a test be... Read more