I am building a PnP Machine based on lumenPnP (an OpenPnP) variant, but as I lack many of the specialized parts they use I have to make changes. This has been a great project as it forced me to lern how a PnP machine works and what challenges it included. As I upgraded to version…
I am getting closer to finishing a Beta version of BSA as a pure Modeling tool. It helped a lot starting to use BSA on a PLC project and the visual dictionary UI is a step in the correct direction. What you see below is one of my remaining bugs. I removed connection points after…
I borrowed the design from LumenPnP (an OpenPnP variant), but I am honestly not impressed with their mechanical skills, so I re-designed the head. Firstly I needed a different end-sensor and added one on each side. But, the major issue was the blue belt holder that difficult to print and would not fir the belt…
The Dictionary part of BSA is quite important as your project grows because it is instrumental in keeping overview and re-using components. The content is always the same, but I decided that I needed at least two precentations of the Dictionary content that is selectable by buttons on top of the Dictionary folder itself. You…
BSA contains a build-in component “Communication Link” and I wanted to see how it would be to code this manually in BSA. As you code you can chose to code modules in target language , or you can code components in BSA itself as we do in this example. See discussion below the diagram. In…
I am using BSA myself daily as we speak and this sometimes makes it very obvious that some of the functionality needs to be improved. I was initially very happy with my Property Editor (at right), but as I have worked on large 4K screens I have noticed that text gets very small and hidden…
One of my concerns on 600V design is how to make ADC readings in the 600V area. I need 3 x Current sensors, 1 x DC Voltage Sensor and 1(2) x Temperature sensors in addition to support for up to 3 resolver sensors as well as an external motor temperature sensor. That sums up to…
This MCU started to interest me because it is a low price alternative with a lot of contents. ST’s price is 1.7 USD, but that is 3++ USD through Digikey in low volume. It is a 128Kb Flash version, but it has a promissing build-in Bootloader that I want to experiment with. If you build…
I am used to problems with STM32CubeIDE – this one popped up as I wanted to open the ioc file of a STM32H503RB – it is a well know error from Eclipse based tools – or more correctly Java based tools. You can always recognize Java since the code is slow as a slug and…
Most of you have already seen my main PLC Core board with 3 x CAN ports and 10 x Extension ports. What I plan for the MC is to extend this to 4 ports wide, keep one CAN port and add a 24V power port, replace the MCU with a smaller Rx (64 pin) version,…