Raspberry – Direct network connection and internet sharing

Just installed Raspbian on my Pi but I have no router, no screen and no keyboard : Just a laptop connected to a WiFi network and one network cable.

We can use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to connect our Pi to our Laptop. We’ll be able to use SSH and the raspberry Pi will have an internet access.

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Simulation : PLC (Siemens) and HMI (Eaton/Moeller with Galileo)

This post is following the one on Siemens PLC simulation with PlcSim.

1. PlcSim

We need a running program on PlcSim. PlcSim has to use the PLCSIM(TCP/IP) interface and has to be listening on the same IP as the computer.

Here a DB with one bit that is toggled every second :
21-S7-plcsim-simulation-running

Your PLC side is ready !

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Computer vision : A box on a industrial conveyor

1. Introduction

To start exploring OpenCV with Python, we’ll start by a simple exercise : Detect a cardboard box on a industrial conveyor (from a average picture took with a smartphone) :
box-1

As as first step, we’ll identity the contour of the box and define a “perfect” rotated rectangle of the minimum area enclosing our box. The result will be this :
box-1-result
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Computer vision : OpenCV / Python installation

1. Introduction

In this post, we’ll detail how to install Python and OpenCV on a Windows 7 system.

2. Python installation

2.1 Download / Installation

At this time, OpenCV 3.0 is not fully ready to run with Python 3.X, we’ll download Python 2.7 from here and proceed to the installation.

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VPN server (OpenVPN) on FreeBSD for windows clients

1. Introduction : VPN system

We’ll describe the procedure to install a VPN server (OpenVPN) on a FreeBSD 10.1 server for Windows 7 clients.

This VPN will be configured for road warriors clients :
– 100% of the outgoing clients traffic will transit through the VPN server.
– 100% of the outgoing clients traffic will be encrypted before leaving the client computer.

I use this system to secure my connection when using untrusted networks (public WiFi) and to avoid constraints and limitations in some countries.

2. OpenVPN : server (FreeBSD 10.1)

2.1 Install

OpenVPN installation :

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