Ardbox PLC family: industrial control with Arduino Leonardo inside Jun 10, 2026 Arduino Industrial If you've ever built a working prototype with Arduino and then faced the challenge of deploying it in a real industrial environment — dealing with noise, 24 Vdc signals, relay loads, or Modbus network... Read more
Four years, more than 300,000 luminaires: the Smart Light Controller story Jun 8, 2026 Arduino Industrial In 2022, the first city council switched on its public lighting managed by a Smart Light Controller. It was not a pilot. It was a real decision, with real budget and real public accountability. The Sm... Read more
Modbus TCP and RTU with Raspberry Pi PLCs: Python and Node-RED examples Jun 1, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry Modbus is a master-slave communication protocol used worldwide in industrial automation. It runs over two transports: serial lines (Modbus RTU, via RS-485) and Ethernet (Modbus TCP). Both are supporte... Read more
Top 30 Arduino blogs and what it says about open source hardware in industry May 25, 2026 Arduino Industrial We received a message this week from FeedSpot: the Industrial Shields Arduino blog has been selected as one of the Top 30 Arduino Blogs on the web, 2026 edition . We are glad to be on that list. And i... Read more
A small controller with a serious job to do May 25, 2026 Arduino Industrial The ESP32 PLC 14 is a compact industrial PLC built for distributed control — reliable connectivity, open-source programming, and room to grow. Small footprint. Real industrial work. Not every automati... Read more
Your Raspberry Pi is gathering dust. Your factory floor can't afford that. May 21, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry From prototype to production: the missing link for Raspberry Pi in industrial environments. Most engineers have already proven the concept on a bare Pi. The real challenge is making it field-ready — e... Read more
Industrial monitoring and data extraction with Raspberry Pi: how GateBerry, Raspberry PLC and Touchberry are redefining the edge May 19, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry Industrial monitoring has undergone a structural transformation over the past decade. The model of periodic manual readings, centralised SCADA systems accessible only from the control room, and data s... Read more
Open source hardware in industrial automation: why Arduino-based PLCs give you a real competitive edge May 18, 2026 Arduino Industrial In B2B industrial automation, the choice of control hardware is rarely just a technical decision. It is a strategic one. The platform you select today will shape your engineering costs, your talent pi... Read more
Success story: from a simple sensor to digitalizing a bottling line May 13, 2026 Arduino Industrial From bottle rejection to full line monitoring: how it started The best projects often start this way: a specific problem, hardware more than capable of solving it, and an engineer willing to push furt... Read more
Success story: industrial automation and open source in advanced wood research May 13, 2026 Arduino Industrial Detecting wood grain angle in 60 timber species: the measurement challenge In the timber industry, the precise determination of grain angle is crucial for evaluating the mechanical strength and qualit... Read more
Plastic Injection Machine Monitoring System with ESP32 PLC and Cloud Integration May 7, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT ACQUISITALL: Open Technology for Industrial Monitoring and Energy Control Project Overview ACQUISITALL is an industrial monitoring and energy automation solution developed for plastic injection enviro... Read more
How to work with the 5GHz Wi-Fi module of the ESP32 Apr 17, 2026 Arduino Industrial Introduction The devices of the ESP32 Ethernet & WiFi & BLE PLC controller family have an integrated 5GHz Wi-Fi specific chip, called ISM43340. As you may know, the 5GHz Wi-Fi band is an improved vers... 5GHz Communication ESP32 ESP32PLC PLC Wi-fi Wifi Read more