For over 50 years, an architecture known as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) has been used to monitor, manage, automate, and control large-scale industrial processes. Today, SCADA has become indispensable across industries like manufacturing, energy, water and waste management, transportation, and more. The…
Did you know that since Meadow.OS v1.6, you can use the Direct Memory Access (DMA) feature on the F7 to do Analog to Digital Conversions (ADC) at an incredibly high sampling rate? While the AnalogInputPort provides a powerful way to do analog port reads…
A large subset of what’s called “motion control” is all about using motors to perform actions. From large industrial conveyors and bulk material augers down to 3D printers and hobby robots, motors are everywhere. The question for us is “how do I control those…
As modern .NET developers, we’re gotten used to seeing and using Tasks in our code. They do a great job of abstracting away the complexity and dangers of old school multi-threaded code. If you’ve got experience creating complex threaded applications using Threads you definitely…
Creating a production IoT solution is a daunting challenge. Most embedded solutions that make it to the field are written using Embedded-C, a 50 year old language that has changed little in its intervening years, along with its associated tooling, which isn’t much better….