Play around with PLC4X with Arduinos

[Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>]

Hi all,

One thing I have heard quite often is: I’d like to try out PLC4X but I don’t have a PLC.

Last week I finished the Firmata driver.
With this you can simply load the StandardFirmata sketch onto your Arduino, connect that to your PC using the USB connection and start reading and writing the digital inputs and reading the analog ones.

Use Apache Kafka, Edgent, Camel, NiFi, Calcite, … or just browse our examples.

There we also have an example using the Firmata Driver in a SpringBoot application using an Apache Royale frontend to display the fill-level of a gas tank.

Perhaps this could encourage the one or the other to play around with our great little project.

And if you happen to get ideas … please come forward here or on our mailing list dev@plc4x.apache.org<ma...@plc4x.apache.org>

Here some documents:

Getting Started Document:
https://plc4x.apache.org/users/plc4j/gettingstarted.html
Firmata Driver Description:
https://plc4x.apache.org/users/protocols/firmata.html

Have fun ;-)


Chris