2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A DIY SCADA smart home

A DIY DIN rail mounted rack of PLC components for home automation

Supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems sit in the background in industrial settings, performing all kinds of important jobs but in an ad-hoc setup, depending on the precise …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A DIY SCADA smart home

Hacker Dictionary: RS-485 Will Go the Distance

RS485 is a communication standard that should be part of the advanced hardware hacker’s arsenal; it’s not commonly encountered, but powerful exactly when you need it. It’s a physical layer …read more Continue reading Hacker Dictionary: RS-485 Will Go the Distance

Jetson Nano Robot

[Stevej52] likes to build things you can’t buy, and this Jetson Nano robot falls well within that category. Reading the project details, you might think [Stevej52] drinks too much coffee.  But we think he is just excited to have successfully pulled off the Herculean task of integrating over a dozen …read more

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