A lot of companies struggle to build cost-efficient, reliable, and high-performance hardware for their products. Working with proven platforms boosts time-to-market and reduces investment costs. This is why Nexxtlab has built their digital energy management system with the Industrial Raspberry Pi from Revolution Pi.
Continue reading “Smart Energy Management Powered by the Industrial Raspberry Pi”
The number of your connected devices is growing, and you wonder how to manage all of them? We have you covered! Revolution Pi is now an official partner of balenaOS – the efficient solution for mass deployment in IoT systems. Learn how you can streamline fleet updates and remote management of your industrial Raspberry Pis with balenaOS! Continue reading “Smoothly Manage Big Fleets – With balenaOS for Revolution Pi”
Since its introduction in 2012, the Raspberry Pi has undergone a remarkable development and has become one of the most popular single-board computers on the market. This success is due in part to the dedication of Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Continue reading “The industrial Raspberry Pi: From school to the shop floor”
With the RevPi Connect 4, we finally can leave the chip crisis behind. Now, we want to provide an outlook on our ability to deliver and explain how we manage to secure it this time. And we’d like to thank you for your patience.
Continue reading “Good news, everyone! Status update of our delivery capabilities”
Developing a product and supporting an open source project at the same time? In this interview, Lukas explains how and why he works on the Linux kernel for KUNBUS – because he doesn’t devote himself to it exclusively for the sake of the company. Continue reading “Working on the Linux kernel for KUNBUS”
An essential part of our Revolution Pi development philosophy is to enable open source in industrial settings. This means not only providing an open platform, as exemplified by the Raspberry Pi, but also supporting the open source resources it contains. Product Owner Nicolai shares how he and his team anchor open source in the company and why we are also willing to show our hands when it comes to certain parts of our hardware. Continue reading “How KUNBUS managed to establish the Raspberry Pi & Open Source in the industrial environment with the Revolution Pi”
A team of production staff, IT, and business development meets and shows how easy it is to install an HMI with Revolution Pi and Node-RED in our production. Our exemplary use case: the partial automation of our THT assembly. Continue reading “HMI with Revolution Pi and Node-RED in production environments”
Their knowledge is often based on decades of experience: Machine and plant operators are hard to replace – they hear and feel their machines. So, what can be done when there are no successors? One possibility is to imitate this know-how digitally. Here, Revolution Pis can support knowledge management without interfering with existing systems. Continue reading “Saving know-how of experienced machine operators with Revolution Pi”
The showdown before each RevPi is shipped: the final test to see if a device will make it to the customer. With our specially manufactured End of Line testers (EOL-tester), each individual module is tested for flawless function – also by RevPis themselves. Continue reading “When RevPis test RevPis”
Use industrial applications with Microsoft Azure and profit from one of the big players: We are delighted to announce that our Revolution Pi base modules RevPi Core 3+ and RevPi Connect+ are now in the Microsoft Azure Certified Catalog. Continue reading “Revolution Pi is now Microsoft Azure certified”
The Industry 4.0 era sees increased use of Linux based industrial PCs for automation systems, blurring the line between IT and OT (automation). Revolution Pi is an excellent example and that`s why CDP Studio pre-configured the RevPi range in their development platform (IDE), so customers can easily develop IT-based automation systems. Continue reading “Introducing CDP Studio – IT software tools with OT convenience”
Perfectly cooked food without stress while using the RevPi Core 3+? A team of barbecue-enthusiasts and budding technicians shows how this is possible within their semester project. In 1400 hours of work, they created a pellet smoker that fully takes over the cooking process. Continue reading “The automated pellet smoker: SmokeMatik x RevPi”
The success of Revolution Pi is contributed by the countless system integrators around the world who use our devices for their projects. Therefore, we would like to introduce one of our first choice system integrators: erminas GmbH based in Oldenburg (Germany) has been with us since the introduction of Revolution Pis in 2016 and has since implemented countless (I)IoT projects with a wide variety of RevPis. We talk to Hilmar Bunjes, founder and CEO of erminas. Continue reading “First choice system integrator: erminas GmbH”
The Linux kernel 4.15, which was released by Linus Torvalds on January 28, contains several interesting contributions by us: We’ve developed drivers for industrial analog and digital I/O chips that are built into Revolution Pi products and were previously unsupported by Linux. Continue reading “Our contribution to Linux 4.15”
In today’s blog post we would like to introduce you to an interesting field of application of our Revolution Pi by the company Oxygen Technologies. The german-based company Oxygen Technologies is a Fraunhofer spin-off in the field of energy informatics and develops in partnership with KUNBUS algorithms and IT solutions for automated peer-to-peer (P2P) trading of energy generated by decentralized power plants. Continue reading “Use Case: How Revolution Pi helps to revolutionize the energy market”
We were flabbergasted when in August 2016 (that was two months before the official release of Revolution Pi) TeamViewer did ask us for a RevPi test system. Some weeks later in October we had our first meeting forging a plan for technical collaboration. The bottom line was to enable remote monitoring and control of machines crossing any firewalls and yet following highest security standards. Continue reading “Revolution Pi meets TeamViewer”
Our system upgrade from Raspbian Wheezy to Jessie comes with a great bonus: We added master and slave functionalities for the popular Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP protocols. So you no longer need to use any external gateway modules for Modbus communication. Continue reading “Revolution Pi goes Modbus”
About five months after the Raspberry Pi Foundation started delivering the Compute Module 3 we are bringing RevPi Core 3 on the market: Our first and newest member of the Revolution Pi family which is equipped with a Compute Module 3. Continue reading “Finally the wait is over – RevPi Core 3”
Since the launch of Revolution Pi, we constantly get inquiries from companies asking for a branded version of the Revolution Pi. Depending on the quantity, branding of Revolution Pi is possible. Today we`ll show you an example of a branded version of Revolution Pi: Continue reading “OEM Branding? No Problem!”
Today we proudly announce that Revolution Pi has won another award. At the “Products of the Year 2017” award, Revolution Pi was able to gain a respectable 3rd place in the category automation. The “Products of the Year” award is a readers’ prize, which has already been awarded for the 19th time by the readers of the German magazine “Elektronik” and its online portal elektronik.de. Continue reading “Product of the year 2017”
This years SPS IPC Drives closed its gates just over a week ago and now it`s time for us to say a big thank you to everyone who visited our booth. Your feedback on Revolution Pi and our booth design was awesome. For those, who didn`t make it to the SPS IPC Drives or just want to simply reminisce, here are some exhibition impressions: Continue reading “SPS IPC Drives 2016 – Summary”
Only 13 days left till the world premiere of Revolution Pi at the SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg! Last week we launched our online shop to allow pre-orders. And today our Forum is officially online. You can join us at revolutionpi.com/forum/ Continue reading “Get together now!”
Well, now you’re finally able to pre-order your Revolution Pi system. Our first batch of Revolution Pi will be only a couple hundred devices. So, if you want to be one of the first to get a hand on Revolution Pi: don`t hesitate to pre-order your Revolution Pi system in our new online shop. Continue reading “Wanna hear some good news ?”
We (KUNBUS GmbH) proudly announce to be decorated by “Landespreis für junge Unternehmen” (“federal state award for young companies”) of Baden Württemberg out of over 600 nominees as one of the “Top-Ten-Companies 2016”. But what has this to do with Revolution Pi? Continue reading “Winner winner chicken dinner !”
When we announced to bring our RevPi Core to the internet this statement was the measure of all our decisions. We wanted to definitely avoid mishaps like one of the big Smart Home companies experienced lately. But doesn’t this grate with the concept of open source? How can we protect a system against manipulation and hacking attacks when telling everyone your technical secrets? Continue reading “IIoT? Sure, but secure like Fort Knox!”
Being a frequent reader of our Newsletter you already know that Revolution Pi enables you to use logi.CAD 3 as IEC 61131-3 compliant editor for PLC programming. Such programs are executed by the runtime system logi.RTS which is part of RevPi Core software. Continue reading “PLC programming with logi.CAD 3”
We’ve set up Revolution Pi as an open source project because we would love to see you all as a community pushing this project forward. This is why we will publish the circuit drawings, important mechanical data and source codes. You will even be able to buy all the mechanical parts needed to build your own modules and integrate them into the Revolution Pi family. Continue reading “Easy Integration of your own Modules”
PiCtory is a perfect tool to define the physical position of hardware modules and symbolic names of their in- and outputs. These definitions are written to a JSON file and used by our main driver PiControl and all other drivers. But PiCtory also enables you to define configuration values for hardware modules or installed drivers. Continue reading “Easy Configuration with PiCtory”
Although we’ve used its name throughout many newsletters we’ve never really explained it in detail: PiControl (aka “PiCon”) –the central driver of RevPi Core. It is the heart of our firmware as only PiCon enables your application software to exchange data with the central processing image. But PiCon offers more than just a software interface: Continue reading “Full Control by using PiControl”
If you are a Gyro Gearloose who loves tinkering you will love this blog post. You know, although “suitable for industrial applications” is great and gives you guarantee that your device will work in rugged environments on the factory floor, it also means that there is unfortunately no possibility for “quick and dirty” connections of 5 V TTL signals or I2C sensors. If you as a maker can’t do without such connectivity you will love our easy and flexible solution for small money: The Arduino (&Co)-Connectivity! Continue reading “Listen up Makers!”
Since our first newsletter we are getting a lot of phone calls and emails from all over the world asking for a price of Revolution Pi modules. Well, today is the day: We finally reveal the price of our Revolution Pi modules. Continue reading “The Price is Right”
Since our first Revolution Pi newsletter, we received many interesting feedback comments and constructive proposals from you to improve Revolution Pi. It’s time to inform you that some of your proposals so far will be realized in our final development steps. Continue reading “BREAKING NEWS – New Features for I/O-Module”
You’ve already heard this name in nearly all of our previous blog posts: PiBridge. But what exactly is it and how does this back-plane bus work? Here is the short version: Continue reading “PiBridge – How communication between Revolution Pi modules works”
This week we will take a closer look at our modular gateways, which can be used to connect the Revolution Pi to an industrial network such as PROFINET. In the Revolution Pi environment our modular gateways are called “RevPi Gate”. Continue reading “Connecting Revolution Pi to an industrial network”
The last two weeks we’ve explained RevPi Core. Today we will reveal all the details about our digital I/O modules. Continue reading “Introducing the I/O Modules for Revolution Pi”
We will continue explaining RevPi Core and today this will be a summary of all software components. At the end of this post we explain why some of the original Raspberry Pi connectors can’t be found on a RevPi Core module. Continue reading “The Core of the Revolution – RevPi Core (part II)”
As promised in our last post, today and next week we will take a closer look at the RevPi Core. It’s the CPU of our modular system. The module is widely compatible to a Raspberry Pi Model B+. We do achieve this compatibility by plugging the Raspberry Pi Compute. Continue reading “The Core of the Revolution – RevPi Core (part I)”
Greetings, thanks for having a look at our newest project, called Revolution Pi. But what is Revolution Pi all about? You are in a hurry? Here is an abstract for you: Continue reading “Welcome to the Revolution”
