How to communicate a UPSafePi with an M-Duino PLC using RS485 protocol Apr 29, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry In industrial automation, effective device communication is crucial. This post delves into integrating UPSafePi with an M-Duino PLC using the RS485 protocol . We'll cover all necessary steps, from har... Read more
Using Visual Studio Code on Raspberry PLC Apr 5, 2024 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT 1. Prerequisites Visual Studio Code is a source-code editor, and as such it requires a desktop environment to draw its full potential. For that, we will have to make sure our OS image has a desktop en... Read more
Object detection w/ Raspberry PLC & AI Mar 21, 2024 Arduino Industrial Introducing AI-powered object detection with Raspberry PLC Object detection is the ability to identify and locate specific objects in an image or video. AI can do this job better due to its ability to... Read more
ESP32 PLC: PWM Output Mar 20, 2024 Arduino Industrial Introduction The devices of the ESP32 PLC family have a defined number of digital outputs. All of them can be programmed as PWM outputs, if required. As we know, the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) is a ... ESP32 ESP32PLC PWM output Read more
Basic usage of the ESP32 PLC 14 digital outputs Mar 13, 2024 Arduino Industrial Welcome to our blog where we explore how to properly use the digital outputs on the ESP32 PLC 14. We'll be diving into practical tips and techniques to help you get started. Let's jump right in! Requi... Read more
Programming an ESP32 PLC board: Setting up PlatformIO IDE on Visual Studio Code Mar 12, 2024 Arduino Industrial In this Blog we'll learn how to set up the PlatformIO extension for VSCode in order to write code for an ESP32 PLC. This add-on offers a comfortable interface in VSCode to manage projects. Before we s... Read more
IV. Temperature Sensor and Touchberry: How to display temperature using Node-RED Mar 8, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry Introduction Previously, we learned how to connect our Dallas sensor to a Raspberry PLC using the 1-Wire protocol. See how (Part I) Then, we learned how to get the temperature from our Dallas sensor f... DS18B20 Node-Red RaspberryPLC Sensor TemperatureSensor Read more
How to Find your Perfect Industrial PLC Feb 29, 2024 Arduino Industrial Introduction Finding the right PLC controller for each specific application may seem complicated, but let's look at some tools to make the process easier. Key Points The most important aspect is to fo... PanelPC Choose Configuration Find PLC Web Website Read more
Introduction to Modbus and Raspberry PLC. Part 4 Feb 21, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry Modbus and Raspberry PLC This is the fourth post of the Modbus and Raspberry PLC collection. This post will be focused on Python, and we will create a simple program as an introduction to Modbus TCP a... Ethernet Modbus Python RaspberryPLC Read more
Introduction to Modbus and Raspberry PLC. Part 2 Feb 21, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry Modbus and Raspberry PLC This is the second post of the Modbus and Raspberry PLC collection. This post will be focused on Node-RED, and we will go through everything this browser-based flow editor can... Ethernet Modbus Node-Red RaspberryPLC Read more
Introduction to Modbus and Raspberry PLC. Part 3 Feb 21, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry Modbus and Raspberry PLC This is the third post of the Modbus and Raspberry PLC collection. This post will be focused on Python, and we will create a simple program as an introduction to Modbus RTU an... ModbusRTU Python RS485 RaspberryPLC Read more
Introduction to Modbus and Raspberry PLC. Part 1 Feb 21, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry Modbus and Raspberry PLC This is the first post of the Modbus and Raspberry PLC collection. In them, we will understand and practice with some options the Raspberry PI PLC offers to communicate with M... ModbusRTU Node-Red RS485 RaspberryPLC Read more