let us be the very first to say: Not a hack! nevertheless this is an fascinating checked out about exactly how the Arduino motion has made pastime microcontroller boards appealing for industrial applications.
This is a digital printing maker which appears like it is utilized for industrial packaging. [Paul Furley] helped the business which creates it, establishing the software application for the manage interface. He recounts the story of exactly how he assisted guide the business away from selecting a microcontroller, as well as toward utilizing an Arduino board. Actually, utilizing three Arduino boards. We can already hear the flame war boiling up in the comments section. however before you rage, checked out the post as well as see if you don’t agree with [Paul’s] reasoning.
The a lot of compelling disagreement to us is that selecting Arduino is absolutely future proof. If the business goes out of service there are numerous clone gadgets already available. As the Arduino platform evolves it will keep pin compatibility in buy to support the older shields. as well as if they select a different microcontroller the Arduino IDE will still compile the exact same sketch for the new hardware.
One thing that pops into our minds is compose protection. The maker utilizes a huge PCB to which the three Arduinos mount. That can be created anywhere without danger of having the source code leak as the PCB doesn’t include chips that requirement to be programmed. Arduino utilizes AVR chips that have compose security fuses which can be burnt in-house after they flash the manage firmware.
[Thanks Thomas]