• Title: Beyond "PLC Lite": Designing for "Soft Coupling" and Openness

    Masahiro Furukawa • 4 hours ago • 0 comments

    Beyond "PLC Lite": Designing for "Soft Coupling" and Openness

    Currently, many "Industrial Arduinos" (such as the Arduino Opta) are emerging, but they suffer from a fundamental flaw: they are becoming "PLC Lite." In their pursuit of being "official industrial products," they have inherited the "black box" nature of traditional vendors—closed enclosures, rigid board-to-board (B2B) connectors, and limited extensibility. I call this "Mechanical Debt." While it offers reliability, it kills the open-source spirit that made Arduino great in the first place.

    - ADX-Core v0 proto

    ADX is my attempt to break this cycle. Here is how I am designing it to be different:

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