{"id":26331,"date":"2019-05-29T13:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=26331"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T19:58:21","slug":"internet-of-things-with-pmods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/internet-of-things-with-pmods\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Things with Pmods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, Andrew Back of DesignSpark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rs-online.com\/designspark\/rs-iot-blockchain-demonstrators-part-3-electronics?cm_mmc=US-EM-_-DSN_20181128-_-DM172544-_-TWIN_URL1&amp;cid=DM172544&amp;bid=933212558\">published a series of posts <\/a>that looked at the designs\/builds of a set of demonstrators for the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/electronica.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronica<\/a>&nbsp;trade fair and conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TAPi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TAPi1.jpg 815w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TAPi1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TAPi1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrations are intended to show how blockchain technology can be used to create a secure, decentralized data platform and more for the Internet of Things. RS IoT Blockchain Demonstrators is the third installment in the series, and it highlights some creative designs as well as Digilent Pmods in action!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/index.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/index.png 618w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/index-600x309.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the demo units make use of Pmod modules interfaced via the DesignSpark <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-hat-adapter-pmod-expansion-for-raspberry-pi\/\">Pmod HAT adapter <\/a>(for use with Raspberry Pi). We have listed some examples below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-ad1-two-12-bit-a-d-inputs\/\">Pmod AD1<\/a> with resistor divider to measure voltage across conveyor motor terminals.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-oledrgb-96-x-64-rgb-oled-display-with-16-bit-color-resolution\/\">Pmod OLEDrgb <\/a>used to indicate status of run, stop or failure.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmodtc1-k-type-thermocouple-module-with-wire\/\">Pmod TC1 <\/a>and thermocouple probe indicates temperature.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-lvlshft-logic-level-shifter\/\">Pmod LVLSHFT<\/a> logical level shifter used in the LeakKiller Challenge.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VoltageDivider.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VoltageDivider.jpg 815w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VoltageDivider-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VoltageDivider-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VoltageDivider-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The DesignSpark Pmod HAT adapter made it easy to integrate incredibly useful Pmods which added small OLED displays, ADC input and temperature measurement to the Raspberry Pi, along with level shifted output for driving the Dotstar addressable LEDs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-26331 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='26331' data-nonce='d8c4d58d14' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-26331 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-26331 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='26331' data-nonce='d8c4d58d14' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-26331 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-26331 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out some Internet of Things applications with Pmods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":26335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1561],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-26331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expansion-modules","category-applications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VoltageDivider.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4485,"user_id":36,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mirandamay7","display_name":"Miranda Hansen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcab037c32924b9f9b3ca4898e179f2764cb7d9a82aa2bd475170c8aaa884e1c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26331"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=26331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}