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I'm rather excited by these. I work with B&R industrial controllers at the moment, and it would be lovely to replace the proprietary Windows-only toolchain with

• zeroping 8y ago
  What do you think of the prices? I imagine many people will get sticker shock, but is this a good price in the world of DIN-rail-mounted embedded computers?
  • camtarn 8y ago
    They're roughly comparable to the controllers we use. A B&R Atom-based controller with 512Mb-2Gb of RAM will set you back £600-£1200 depending on speed and RAM size. I/O modules are a bit cheaper on B&R, but their capabilities are much more limited: four analogue inputs or outputs, or dix digital inputs or outputs, per module. The RevPi digital modules also have built in counters for encoders, which is a separate and more pricey card on B&R. So, it's certainly not a low cost system, but it seems to be one that's designed for parity with the existing industrial controllers, rather than being lower cost but much less capable. I'm not sure how it compares to systems from Wago, Siemens etc, but a quick Google seems to indicate that they're also in the same price range.