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As they say, a picture tells a thousand words. The above image demonstrates a predicament we encountered a few days ago. The enclosure we are using for our SAE J1939 Gateway And Data Logger With Real-Time Clock is not available at the moment, and it might take a few more months before new supplies arrive. At the same time, a customer of ours was in need of six units, and we needed a solution.
We have an excellent hardware designer, who took the printed circuit board (PCB) and constructed a new enclosure. Polycase offers a great variety of enclosures, and it was easy to find an enclosure that could accommodate the PCB with a few slight modifications (the DSUB9 connector is usually mounted directly to the board) plus the necessary cutouts.
In general, the global supply situation forced us to create new designs, and we are in the process of replacing a number of devices. However, while we grow with the challenge, the new designs result in more powerful solutions that open doors to more applications, specifically for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
Industrial Ethernet Evaluation Board Supports Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, Profinet, Profibus, Modbus, And More
Renesas announced their RX72M networking solutions, which reduce the development efforts while using the RX72M for slave equipment for industrial networks; they are available for motor drives at robot terminals, small programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and remote I/O, and more.The RX72M solution comprises of an evaluation board with operating system, middleware, and sample software supporting around [...]
IoT (Internet of Things) Development Board For Designing Secure, Google-Cloud-Connected Systems
Microchip Technology announced their AVR-IoT WG Development Board, an Internet of Things (IoT) rapid prototyping system, which is part of an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, thus letting designers to prototype connected devices. The solution links an AVR microcontroller (MCU), a CryptoAuthentication secure element IC and a fully certified Wi-Fi network controller to provide a way to [...]
CAN Bus Prototyping With Arduino Uno - Prototyping Hardware
This post is part of a series about Controller Area Network (CAN Bus) Prototyping With the Arduino Uno. As I had mentioned earlier, it is assumed that you have some basic knowledge of the Arduino, Arduino Sketches, and Arduino Shields. I will nevertheless take the opportunity of mentioning the prototyping hardware and its variants. It is important to know that the [...]
Rapid IoT Prototyping Kit With BLE And Zigbee Connectivity
The Rapid IoT Prototyping Kit by NXP Semiconductors was designed to take developers from an Internet of Things (IoT) idea to Proof of Concept (PoC) in a matter of minutes. The Rapid IoT Prototyping Kit operates with the powerful Kinetis K64F Core 32-bit Microcontroller for application processing and features a Kinetis KW41Z Wireless Controller for Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE), Thread, [...]
Electronic Control Unit (ECU) With Five CAN Bus Ports Plus Ethernet, Flexray, And LIN Bus Interfaces
Expinovo (Germany) has developed an ECU (electronic control unit) with multiple interfaces used in in-vehicle networks, including five CAN Bus ports. The CatchTheBus® device supports the CAN FD protocols (four of the five CAN interfaces). The programmable ECU by Expinovo also provides interfaces for Ethernet, Flexray, LIN (two ports), and EIA-232 (two ports). Additionally, the product features four [...]
Guide To Full-Fledged Electronic Prototyping Using The Arduino Platform
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Arduino Programming in 24 Hours teaches you C programming using the Arduino, so you can start creating inspired “DIY” hardware projects of your own! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you will walk through everything from setting up your programming environment to mastering C syntax [...]
Microchip Prototyping Boards For 32-Bit Applications
Two prototyping boards for 32-bit applications are now available from Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of micro-controller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions. The PIC32MX and PIC32MZ Curiosity Boards include an integrated programmer debugger and are fully integrated with Microchip’s MPLAB® X IDE and into PIC32’s powerful software framework, MPLAB® Harmony that provides flexible and modular interface to application [...]
Arduino For Dummies: Work Through Sketches Line By Line In Plain English
Arduino is an open-source computer hardware and software company, project and user community that designs and manufactures microcontroller-based kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world.This is no ordinary circuit board. Arduino allows anyone, whether you're an artist, designer, programmer or hobbyist, to learn about [...]
Controller Area Network (CAN Bus) Development And Prototyping with Raspberry Pi
The prototyping of Controller Area Network (CAN) applications used to be a tedious and expensive task, but the recent years have seen the emergence of low-cost, yet easy-to-use embedded development platforms such as the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard [...]