Arduino Day - suggestion: DIN housing with LAN, CAN and LoRa

Jan Cumps

30 Mar 2021

For Arduino Day, belated, a few photos of a project I'm working on.

Arduino MKR 1310 LoRa with Ethernet shield and CAN-shield. In a DIN mounted housing and a LoRa range antenna.

It is going to be part of a light industrial test setup.

The housing is Arduino MKR DIN rail housing from e14 member hwhardsoft.

Inside:

Arduino MKR 1310Arduino MKR 1310 for LoRa, with a MOLEX 105262MOLEX 105262 868/915 flex antenna.

Arduino MKR ETH shieldArduino MKR ETH shield

Arduino MKR CAN shieldArduino MKR CAN shield

This will be one of a few replaceable options.

I also have a TI CC1100 with a rod antenna, put in a smaller DIN housing, that can do sub-1 GHz duty,

an Avnet SmartEdge IIOTConnect that can do CAN, WiFi and Ethernet,

and a DIN mounted Raspberry Pi that can do Ethernet, Wifi and can be paired with my home-made CAN driver,

Happy Arduino Day

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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago +1

In the above photos, I put the sun-1 GHz antenna on the transparent front to make the photo interesting. As you can see, I had just put some tape on the back and taped it to the front panel from the backside…

Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to jc2048

In the end, I mounted the antenna on the outside, and drilled a hole.

After some reflection, I prefer this more than adding a vertical DIN rail.
I've put transparent tape for a little protection - and because the antenna's background only glues perfectly the first time.
If I really wanted, I'd be able to fit it on the inside, if I'd grind away 2 profiles on the housing's plastic.
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jc2048 over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

I found my way here to comment after seeing your post in the Feedback and Support forum.

I didn't get any notification for your latest comments, even though I'd previously commented on the thread. That's probably because I'm not a member of the group.
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beacon_dave over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

either:

Home Page -> 'View more results', which takes you to the user search.

or

User search via browser bookmark - currently the best way to see general site activity in my opinion.

We already established some time ago that the home page only lists top 'x' new blog posts and not subsequent comments to blogs.

I'm not currently subscribed to this blog for notifications so wouldn't see a notification. Fiends of either yourself or myself may get a notification about this activity if they have an option enabled to notify on friend activity.

The content was indexed in the search engine very quickly so indicates job server was running properly.

One new observation though, commenting on a blog like this doesn't automatically turn blog or comment notifications on.
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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Is this a search, or a notification/home page?
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beacon_dave over 3 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

The indexing is working quickly at the moment. Around 3mins for this comment to appear.
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