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Thermocouple Measurement HAT Adds Industrial Temperature Measurement To The Raspberry Pi Platform
Measurement Computing Corporation has announced the release of their MCC 134 thermocouple measurement HAT for Raspberry Pi. The MCC 134 brings industrial temperature measurement capabilities to the vastly popular Raspberry Pi platform. The device comes with four thermocouples (TC) inputs capable of measuring popular TC types, such as J, K, R, S, T, N, E, and B. [...]
Python Hands-On Guide For Writing Effective And Idiomatic Code
Python’s ease-of-use supports every engineer to become productive instantly, but this usually implies that they are not using all the features it has to offer. With this hands-on guide, you discover how to write robust, idiomatic Python code by leveraging its best, and probably most overlooked features. Author Luciano Ramalho takes the reader through Python’s core language features [...]
Industrial Edge Controller Powered By An Industrialized Raspberry Pi And Arduino
Brainboxes released their BB-400 NeuronEdge Controller to receive, process and transmit machine data. Linking industrial hardware connections with the processing power of a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+, the BB-400 NeuronEdge offers the possibilities of open source software in an uncomplicated retrofit way, opening the potential of various types of equipment. The BB-400 NeuronEdge combines Brainboxes IO and serial [...]
Low-Cost Do-It-Yourself CAN Bus To WiFi, Bluetooth, BLE, USB, RS485 Gateway Based On Raspberry Pi Zero
In the following, I will discuss a do-it-yourself project utilizing the Raspberry Pi Zero in combination with the CAN Bus Plus RS485 HAT. The combination of serial and wireless ports provided by this system allows the development of a great number of gateway applications. Overall, this small-size hardware includes connections such as CAN Bus, RS485, [...]
Electronic Logging Device Concept: Small Form-Factor ELD Based On Raspberry Pi With CAN Bus Port And GSM/GPRS/GNSS Support
An electronic logging device (ELD) is an electronic hardware that is attached to a commercial motor vehicle engine to record driving hours. The driving hours of commercial drivers (truck and bus drivers) are regulated by a set of rules known as the hours of service (HOS). The Commercial Vehicle Driver Hours of Service Regulations vary in Canada [...]
Dual CAN FD Interface Board With Real Time Clock For Raspberry Pi
CAN FD (CAN with Flexible Data-Rate) is an extension to the original CAN Bus (Classic CAN) protocol specified in ISO 11898-1. CAN FD was created to provide gains in bandwidth within automotive and industrial networks. The CAN FD protocol has moved application software closer to "real time" through the reducing delays between instruction and transfer of [...]
Raspberry Pi Based Controller With CAN Bus Interface Serves As IoT Gateway
Kontron (Germany) has released its series of KBox A-330-MX6 host controllers, which can also serve as IoT (Internet-of-Things) gateways. The KBox A-330-MX6 is based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module CM3+ and can, therefore, use the software pool of the Raspberry Pi community. The host controller with IoT gateway functionality comes with an i.MX6 dual-core processor [...]
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Motherboard In DIN RAIL Enclosure With Optional CAN Bus Interface
The Andino X2 by Clear Systems is a motherboard for the Raspberry Pi 3 in a DIN rail housing, equipped with a built-in 15-W power supply (85 to 230 VAC).Alternatively, a power supply with 24 VDC is available. The X2 maintains numerous interfaces and can also extend to two expansion slots for additional interfaces such as CAN Bus. The [...]
Power Over Ethernet HAT For Raspberry Pi 3B+ And 802.3af PoE Network
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a technology for wired Ethernet local area networks (LANs) that allows the electrical current necessary for the operation of each device to be carried by the data cables rather than by power cords. Doing so minimizes the number of wires that must be strung to install the network. PoE was [...]
CAN FD (CAN Bus with Flexible Data Rate) Prototyping For Embedded Systems Such As Arduino, Raspberry Pi
CAN FD was created to accommodate increases in bandwidth requirements within automotive networks. The CAN FD protocol has brought the software closer to "real time" through the minimization of delays between instruction and transfer of data (latency) and higher bandwidth. CAN FD also allows for more storage capacity in a data frame. While the classic CAN [...]