The Arduino Extension is a newly added feature to the OpenPLC editor. With this extension, now you can add Arduino Sketches that will run alongside your PLC program ...

DEBUG-Mode Arduino MEGA DEBUG mode activated Aborted I tested the following: I loaded a simple blinking program onto three different Arduino variants and then started DEBUG mode: Result: Arduino UNO ...

Abstract: Open-source Programmable Logic Controller (OpenPLC) software is designed to be vendor-natural and run on almost any computer or low-cost embedded devices e.g., Raspberry Pi, Ardunio, and ...

Stepping out onto just about any factory floor you’ll find complex automatons building anything and everything imaginable. These machines need to be controlled somehow and before the age of computers ...

It’s been nearly four years since we covered [Thiago]’s OpenPLC project. He never stopped working on it, and now it’s in a highly polished state. If you read our initial coverage of this project, it ...

PLC programming is very common in industry and home automation. The new Elektor book PLC Programming with the Raspberry Pi and the OpenPLC Project describes how the Raspberry Pi 4 can be used as a ...

In industrial control systems, as well as in home automation, it's accepted practice to control and observe the current process using so-called monitors. In this chapter extracted from Josef ...