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Alexandru Burcea
Transform Your Smart Home with Home Automation HAT
Home automation allows people to control their living environments through efficient and secure devices which improve home convenience. Homeowners can achieve remote or preset-controlled device management through integration of smart...
Mihai Beffa
ROCK 4 SE, another Raspberry Pi Replacement
ROCK 4 looks very much like a Raspberry Pi. It has the same form factor, the same USB and ETH connectors and a pin compatible GPIO expansion port. It lists...
Mihai Beffa
How many cards can you stack on top of Raspberry Pi?
We just tested a stack of 31 various Sequent Microsystems cards. All worked without a glitch. We did not have enough patience to extend the stack until the first failure. ...
Alexandru Burcea
Using Sixteen LV Digital Inputs Card as a MODBUS device
Our Sixteen LV Digital Inputs 8-Layer Stackable HAT for Raspberry Pi can act as a Modbus device in a MODBUS RTU network over RS485. This blog will describe a practical...
Mihai Beffa
Shopify Shortcomings
Shopify Shortcomings: ignore dimensions at checkout, ignore partial payments on partially fulfilled orders.
Mihai Beffa
Revolutionary LoRa Building Automation System from Aero Designs Labs
Aero Design Labs LLC. built their LoRa Building Automation System using Sequent Microsystems cards.
Mihai Beffa
Raspberry Pi PID Loop: Float a Ball at Constant Height in a Tube
PID Loop implemented on Codesys running on Raspberry Pi controlling the Sequent Microsystems Industrial Card. Fun application to control a ping-pong ball floating in a tube.
Mihai Beffa
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Free 3D Printing Stackable Enclosure for Sequent Microsystems cards for Raspberry Pi
The 3D print, stackable enclosure can accommodate up to eight of the following cards, in any combination: 8-MOSFETS, 8-RELAYS, 8-INPUTS, 4-RELAYS/4-INPUTS, 8-CHANNEL RTD.
Mihai Beffa
RS485 port on Sequent Microsystems cards for Raspberry Pi
All Sequent Microsystems cards with the exception of the Home Automation, have an RS485 port, which can be used either from the local processor (when available) or directly from Raspberry Pi.