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Entries for 'Jirka Hladis'

Multi User Video Chat With WebRTC

At DMC, we like to keep in touch with colleagues across all of our offices. So, for a while now, we’ve had a video “portal” set up in the kitchen area of each office. We were initially using an off the shelf video conferencing servi...


How To Disassemble and Fix a Fried S7-1200 PLC

Don’t you hate it when your coworker inadvertently wires up a 24V PLC to wall power and lets out the magic smoke? Just such a mishap happened in our lab a while back and the broken PLC was sitting around in the junk bin for a while. Figuri...


How To Make a Simple Time-lapse IP Web Camera Using a Raspberry Pi

When it comes to capturing time-lapse videos, there are numerous off-the-shelf solutions and libraries out there. For last year’s FedEx Day project, I decided to implement a minimalist solution on a Raspberry Pi using only the default imag...


How to Connect to an Allen-Bradley SLC 500 PLC

With most modern PLCs, all you need to start programming or troubleshooting is to plug in your laptop with a plain old ethernet cable. Older PLCs, however, tend to use a myriad of different cables and protocols. With a large number of legacy systems,...