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Welcome, Dr Don Wilcher! He joins us right as he’s about to release a new book, M5 Stack Electronic Blueprints
- He worked at Willow Run early in his career (facility now closed)
- Henry Ford Community College
- Larry Sears
- Having joy in the courses
- The Knack
- John Davis joined on a previous episode to talk about Industrial machines
- What is a PLC?
- Relay ladder logic
- Industrial Computer vs Controller
- Scan loop on a PLC
- XIC / XIO
- A Distributed Control System (DCS) networks many controllers together
- Don taught a blueprint reading class
- Chris asked about why connectors are drawn the way they are
- Later in his career, Don moved from the industrial space to design in cars
- Wiring harness
- Body controller module
- CAFE laws – California Air Fuel Economy
- 68hc11
- Wetting current for switches
- CAN
- Cigarette lighters in cars
- Don was working on the (Jeep) Grand Cherokee
- Decoding CAN with a scope
- Packard electric connectors
- Cars have a “shower curtain” for water in the door
- Don got his PhD and switched to education
- He taugh courses like
- Electric Circuits 1 / 2
- Intro to robotics
- Automated system and diagnosis
- Electronics Industrial Maintenance
- Instructors putting bugs into the system to test students
- PLCs still reign supreme
- Arduino recently released the Opta, which is targeted at the industrial market
- Don writes for Control.com
- OpenPLC is software that can run on a variety of accessible platforms (like ESP32/Arduino/etc)
- Industrial I/O
- OpenPLC based on IEC spec (61131-3)
- Different programming styles of programming
- Blackhat (movie) with Chris Hemsworth
- Stuxnet worm
- He wrote and article about using OpenPLC with Arduino
- Dr Don has a new book that was just released! The M5 stack book
- Continuing Education Courses
- IEEE certificate
- Dr Don will be speaking at the Embedded Online conference coming up in April
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