Practical Guide to Getting Started with the TS-7970

Introduction This guide will walk you through the basic steps of getting your TS-7970 up and running. It’s mostly an extrapolation from the official TS-7970 Manual, but provides a more practical and casual approach in setting up common connections, networking, and environments to begin development.

Getting Started with Qt Creator on the TS-TPC-8390-4900 or TS-TPC-7990

Introduction In this getting started guide, we’re going to look at what it takes to get an example Qt Creator project running on the TS-TPC-8390-4900 or TS-TPC-7990. This will help pave the way for developing a human machine interface (HMI) for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). We’ll start out by talking about the expected … Continue reading “Getting Started with Qt Creator on the TS-TPC-8390-4900 or TS-TPC-7990”

Practical Guide to Getting Started with the TS-TPC-8390-4900

Introduction This guide will walk you through the basic steps of getting your TS-TPC-8390-4900 touch panel computer (TPC) up and running. It’s mostly an extrapolation from the official TS-TPC-8390-4900 Manual, but provides a more practical approach in setting up common connections, networking, and environments to begin development. We’ll assume you’ve already gone through the excitement … Continue reading “Practical Guide to Getting Started with the TS-TPC-8390-4900”

Practical Guide to Getting Started with the TS-7250-V2

Introduction This guide will walk you through the basic steps of getting your TS-7250-V2 up and running. It’s mostly an extrapolation from the official TS-7250-V2 Manual, but provides a more practical approach in setting up common connections, networking, and environments to begin development.             Home Connections Let’s get our TS-7250-V2 hooked up! … Continue reading “Practical Guide to Getting Started with the TS-7250-V2”

Real World Example in Working with I2C Sensor Device

Let’s take a look at what it takes to read sensor data from an I2C interface (aka I2C, IIC, TwoWire, TWI). In particular, we’ll be reading data from the NXP MPL3115A2 Altimeter/Barometer/Temperature sensor. The principles found in this guide can also be applied generically, even to your ambifacient lunar waneshaft positioning sensor of your turboencabulator.  … Continue reading “Real World Example in Working with I2C Sensor Device”

A Friendly Introduction to XBee

Digi XBee radios sure are handy for wireless communication in embedded systems, so let’s take a look from a newbie perspective at how to get two of ’em talking to each other quickly.                       Home This tutorial can be applied generically to any setup with any … Continue reading “A Friendly Introduction to XBee”

Robust C Library and Utility for GPIO sysfs Interface in Linux

Thisis a comprehensive and easy to read example C code designed to work alone or included as a library for dealing with general purpose I/O via the sysfs interface in Linux. It can easily be applied to any computer which utilizes the GPIO sysfs interface (both pro and maker boards). Getting started is a breeze. … Continue reading “Robust C Library and Utility for GPIO sysfs Interface in Linux”

Example C Code for Reading ADC Inputs on i.MX28 Based Embedded Systems

Let’s take a quick look at what it takes to read from the ADC inputs of a i.MX28 based embedded system using example C code provided by Technologic Systems. Now, while this can be generically applied to many i.MX28 based embedded systems, we’ll be working with a TS-7680. Right, let’s get started!

Develop a Simple Qt Quick Interface for HMI/SCADA Applications

Introduction We’re graduating from our Getting Started with Qt Creator on the TS-TPC-8390-4900 guide, where we ran an example program which came preloaded with Qt Creator on our TS-TPC-8390-4900, and moving into a more real world situation. This guide builds upon the foundations that we set up in the getting started guide and will walk … Continue reading “Develop a Simple Qt Quick Interface for HMI/SCADA Applications”

Creating a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Web Application

Simple Embedded Monitor and Control Dashboard In this guide, we’re going to learn how to create a very simple PHP web application that will read and display real-time CPU temperature data and control an LED using javascript AJAX calls from a web browser anywhere in the world. In the real world, you’d want to monitor … Continue reading “Creating a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Web Application”