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Carmel, Monterey and Fremont are home for factory automation

Three reference designs from Maxim Integrated Products are aimed at design of factory automation systems. Called Carmel, Monterey, and Fremont, these industrial reference designs are fully tested subsystems, complete with schematics, layout files and firmware, and are available for immediate use and customisation. The Carmel (MAXREFDES18#) subsystem, with its high-accuracy, low-noise analogue output high voltages […]

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DIY automation of your existing window blinds. Works with a Z-Wave controller.

You wake up in a dark room and have to use an artificial light before letting the sun in by opening the blinds in the bedroom. You come home from work to a hot house because the sun was warming it all day. Now, you have to adjust the thermostat to cool it down. You

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Open Automaton Project

The objective is to use readily available “off-the-shelf” low-cost consumer components where possible, and to design electronic subsystems where such components are either not readily available or are too expensive. In terms of affordability, the overall goal is to design a robot that can be made for around the price of a PC (US$1,500 to

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