https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/Get some hands-on experience with the components driving Industry 4.0, and you could win test equipment for your own personal bench!en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/b/blog/posts/motoman-up6-6-axis-robot-arm-industrialTue, 07 Jan 2025 23:18:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bac43e88-bcc5-491f-8345-4b708af42fa3powerprogressI'm working on a project to build a controller for an industrial robot arm motoman up 6. I would love to see suggestions. Ben looking at robodk it's a bit expensive. The maker of ar4 robot arm says his software will work. I'm thinking ros simulink and Matlab. The survos have encoders so I've been looking into projects with pwm survo drive extension adafruit seems a bit small. So I've been finding some Arduino pwm survo drive extensions. I have compleat documentation of the robot arm specs and io. I've seen some GitHub stuff for motoman up6 have yet to delve into it all. Just eager to get some quality suggestions. So here it is. Some of the industrial survo drivers for encoders price is more than I paid for the robot.https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/b/blog/posts/received-the-price-package-today-for-experimenting-with-industrial-automationTue, 04 Jun 2024 20:14:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:a38226b0-3ad7-4787-bbe2-26e1ee0182a2embeddedguyI received the Seeed studio's NVIDIA Jatson nano based development PC today morning a third price for Experimenting with Industrial Automation design contest. I already tried the Ubuntu inbuilt image with JATPACK-SDK. {gallery}My Gallery Title IMAGE TITLE: THEN IMAGE DESCRIPTION THINGS PLUGED-IN WITH WIRELESS DRIVER YET TO INSTALL IT'S MINI COMPUTER UBUNTU BOOTING NVIDIA LOGOplcexperimenting with industrial automationdesign challengeindustrial automationhttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/f/forum/54676/exit-poll----did-you-increase-your-knowledge-of-industrial-automation/221775Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:54:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2ac71362-61a3-40bd-91ff-967705ddbcefembeddedguyAs an embedded systems enthusiast, I never thought that my knowledge of Industrial Automation can be so much increased. What I did first was take part in "Experimenting with Industrial Automation" using Schneider Electric devices. That increased my knowledge so much that I would expect. I realised that it could be so easy for me to work on Industrial Automation devices. Then recently, I did Quiz on Industrial Automation. Certainly, these tasks increases my knowledge of Industrial Automation.https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/f/forum/54676/exit-poll----did-you-increase-your-knowledge-of-industrial-automation/221774Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:50:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:1b25f674-84d8-4bf8-b3e5-92c06ce8a8cdkmikemoo"Increased a lot". What made the Experimenting with Industrial Automation design challenge such a great learning experience was that not every function was built into the PLC. Having to learn how to communicate through the communication hub and with the HMI were what set it above and apart from the basic PLC programming that I learned many years ago. PLC's are expected to do more - and they do. I had to use Structured Text in my Ladder Logic to do data type conversions. I don't think the Y2K SLC500 I learned on could have handled that. All in, great stuff AND I hope what we did will help someone when they build their system. Schneider Electric has a bunch of great tutorials - but it didn't cover everything. I'd like to think that we filled in some of the gaps.https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/f/forum/54676/exit-poll----did-you-increase-your-knowledge-of-industrial-automation/221770Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:50:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:cd888fee-1c11-4087-9545-3a1ac638bee2javagozaI have followed this series with great interest. During the early 90s, one of my duties at the newspaper press where I worked was programming the PLC modules for the newspaper cutters, folders and packaging machines. At that time the interfaces were not so intuitive and we did the programming in IL, more similar to an assembler than a programming language. It has been interesting to see the practical use of ladder logic.https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/f/forum/54676/exit-poll----did-you-increase-your-knowledge-of-industrial-automationSun, 02 Jun 2024 16:52:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:e4bad107-410c-432f-878c-db8ef0a7044drscasnyexperimenting with industrial automationhttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/b/blog/posts/new-tools-and-toysSun, 02 Jun 2024 14:21:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:94acbcee-0919-47c2-b96b-bf69e24a1e0ckmikemooThank you element14 and rscasny ! These arrived earlier in the week but I held off opening them until Saturday - when I could enjoy the process a bit more. It was then that it hit me that I had at least one more task to complete... now I have to clean off my workbench so I have room for these. Clearly, I haven't done that yet. Yes... I could be procrastinating. I'm actually quite excited to try out the hot air rework station - as I have never used one before. The closest I've come was a plastic welding kit. I'm sure that I'll have no problem finding boards in the electrionics recycling bin at work to practice my developing skills. I also broke the rules when it comes to the arbitrary waveform generator. I read (some of) the manual. And while it might be smarter than I am right now, I have a friend who is brilliant with electronics that can help me learn to use all of the features of this generator. I'm looking forward to checking out some RF filters, a mixer and a phase detection module that I bought... on a whim. More for the list. Confess your impulse purchases! I do need to buy some BNC to SMA adapters now. And... I hope I don't blow up my TinySA. My oscilloscopes don't go as high as this waveform generator does. Again, thank you e14 and Schneider Electric for letting me participate in the Experimenting with Industrial Automation Design Challenge. And thank you to DAB and shabaz for judging - not an easy task but always appreciated.experimenting with industrial automationwinners