On 23/04/2014 19:18, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
Dick,
After seeing your website, I am amazed that you even had spare time to dedicate
to Kicad,
I am familiar with the kind of product you develop as I have been using
hundreds of those
in a previous job where the company was manufacturing electronic for
Automotive, so we had
huge assembly lines (20,000 parts built per day including laser welding of
electronic components)
with PLCs and robots all over the place.
I wish you the best for your company, and hope that we will stay in touch. If
you need
Manufacturing (DFM, Lean, etc..) advice, I am your man.
A PLC in a Beaglebone black makes a lot of sense.
Best regards,
Jean-Paul
On Apr 23, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <d...@softplc.com> wrote:
On 04/23/2014 11:54 AM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
23/04/14 16:23, Dick Hollenbeck kirjoitti:
On 04/23/2014 07:54 AM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
I have been involved with part libraries since the mid 80's, and now
Carl, Vesa, and Lorenzo are now admins of team kicad-library-committers.
Thank you Dick. For this and the rest. I hope you have at least as good
success in your other endeavours as in KiCad. Success being defined as
getting stuff done.
-Vesa
Vesa,
Thanks for your well wishes. I look forward to clearing KiCad out of my head
so I can
actually give more important things the focus they deserve.
Our acquaintance has been a pleasure, especially being able to meet you face to
face.
Thanks for coming down to the meet a couple of years ago.
Maybe some day you will actually buy a SoftPLC and appreciate what I do in my
real job.
We have it running on the beaglebone now, so the hardware cost is pretty darn
cheap. And
with a Modbus TCP driver you can run a whole factory on a computer that costs
less than
$100. (Although with our software on it, it costs more.)
Hard to imagine what the technology is doing in terms of hardware costs. No,
it's not
just hard, its impossible to imagine it.
We just put up a new website at http://SoftPLC.com and it has an e-commerce
direct buy
website also.
And if you want to ship your product out on a skid an do remote monitoring and
maintenance
on it, we have http://tagwell.net for M2M cellular to cloud data acquisition
and control.
(I can actually lock a restroom in San Antonio, right now, using my cell phone,
and see
if anyone is in it.)
So yes, we stay busy around here.
Dick
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Dick,
I'm not a developer but I take an active interest in Kicad (and I helped
to translate the French Help files into English several years back).
Thank you for all the hard work you have done on Kicad. Following your
contributions has been very educational for me. It has been an
encouragement to learn C++ and Python programming. I'm currently
learning Python so that I can start to use scripts in Kicad. I'll keep
trying with C++ even though I have found it difficult. My long term aim
is to make a contribution to the code but that will take a while. Anyway
I've learnt a lot off you. I've also just took a first step in learning
about PLC's
as I help to support an MSc class at the university where I work (as a
technician). The class uses Arduino's and Labview to control PLC
hardware. As this is all new to me as well I'm learning along with the
students. Hopefully one day I'll appreciate what you and your company
produces.
All the best.
David.
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