Started Training rig: what should sit between a Raspberry Pi and Lego motors?

Slightly unusual one. I'm building a training rig for our apprentices: a small Lego Technic conveyor with a colour sensor at the end, so…

1 week ago

Started PIC24FJ128GA202 Modbus RTU slave over MAX485 never answers the gateway

Our test rigs have a custom board with a PIC24FJ128GA202 that should act as a Modbus RTU slave (address 7, 19200 8E1) so a…

1 week, 2 days ago

Replied to Packaging line 3: press, robot cell, inspection, packing and palletising on one drawing

Zones with a title per section is a good idea. Doing the same for our filling line.

1 week, 4 days ago

Replied to The Commands tab on a fresh controller, before the first command

Who can send what here? Our operators are all Users.

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Replied to Serhat, SCADA drawings and the field side under them

Hello Serhat. Automotive here. Is there anything in the library for assembly lines, or is it mostly tanks and pumps?

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Replied to Measuring 1250 °C in a pottery kiln and getting told when a firing runs away

MAX6675 tops out at 1024 °C by design, that's your 1023.75.

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Replied to Reject button at a rework station misses quick presses. Also, can Forge count these for us?

Interrupt version is on the station since Monday. Hand tally 52, Hermetry 52 on Tuesday's shift. I'd also been publishing "rejects this minute" and…

4 months, 1 week ago

Started Reject button at a rework station misses quick presses. Also, can Forge count these for us?

We have a rework station at the end of a door panel line. When an operator rejects a panel they press a big mushroom…

5 months, 2 weeks ago