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Inspired by Arduino(tm), chipKIT(tm) technology in an industrial form factor.

Quick™ (Quick Universal Industrial Control Kard) is based on chipKIT(tm) open source platform. The Quick240 is designed for industrial automation systems where traditionally a ladder logic PLC might have been used. Since the Quick240 is an open platform for industrial automation it effectively extends the traditional life of a similarly proprietary. This is achieved in several ways.

• Easier maintenance after the traditional “end of life” of an equivalent proprietary device since the tools are open.
• Devices can utilize new technology developed for the open source community that maybe slow or never come to a proprietary tool.

The initial adapters of the Quick240 will be chipKIT(tm) and Arduino(tm) users that need to implement industrial automation solutions. Quick™ allows for a polished package that presents a high end image rather than something that looks like a hobby or prototype. Quick™ is based on open source technologies so tools obsolescent is mitigated and entry cost is lower.

The result is an Open Source PLC based on chipKIT technology.

The Quick system consists of a motherboard (Quick240) that has a Microchip (PIC32MX795F512L) microcontroller, high voltage (24V In) DC-DC converter that outputs 5V and a 3.3V linear regulator and seven Kard™ slots. All of this is housed in a sleek DIN rail mountable plastic housing.

Kard slots allow insertion of low cost signal conditioning circuits for interfacing the Microchip device to the industrial world. The board Drive Kard shown below will turn a single slot into a drive circuit for four relays or solenoid.

Quick240 Blink Sketch Video

Quick240 Drive Kard Blink Sketch Video

Kickstarter Revision X1 Video (may not be used)

Quick240 Serving Web Pages to an Android Tablet Demo

Quick240 controlling three stepper motors

Understanding Source & Sink

Ping Pong Ball Levitation

Features

Connections Power Supply, Jumpers and Pinout

Development Tools Setting up MPIDE

Bootloader Upgrading or replacing the bootloader

Schematics and BOM's

Asked Questions and answers

Serial Communications Sketches USB/UART/RS-233/RS-485/RS-422 and others.

Drive Kard Sketches

ISO Kard Sketches

Android Communications

One Axis Stepper Motor Controller

Change Notification Interrupts

PingPongLev Demo Code and BOM

Web Server Demo

Ticket ID

Quick KardIO Pin Mapping

Image	Part Number	Description	Schematic	Layout	Availability	Order
	Quick240	Quick240 Mother Board with DIN Rail Housing	Open	Closed	Production	Buy
	Quick242	Quick242 Mother Board with DIN Rail Housing (USB Self Powered, external power must be provided). This product is discontinued. The current Quick-240 now has a jumper to disconnect USB power from powering the board.	Open	Closed	Production	Buy
	Quick241	Quick240 Mother Board (bare board only)	Open	Closed	Production	Buy
	QKI-FDP100	Drive Kard (Source / P-Channel) for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Production	Buy
	QKI-FDN100	Drive Kard (Sink / N-Channel) for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Production	Buy
TBD	QKI-FDN101	Drive Kard (Super Sink / N-Channel) for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Production	Buy
	QKI-ICC100	ISO Kard (Common Cathode Isolated Input) for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Production	Buy
	QKI-ICA100	ISO Kard (Common Anode Isolated Input) for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Production	Buy
	QKI-BO100	BO100 Break-Out Kard (User Selectable Passive Matrix Per Pin) for KardIO Slot	Open	Open	Production	Buy
	QKI-BO101	BO100 Break-Out Kard (Configured for Optical Sensor Bias PLPA-0132) for KardIO Slot	Open	Open	Production	Buy
	QKI-STP200	Big-Easy Kard (One Channel micro-step driver 2A per phase) for KardIO Slot	Open	Closed	Prototype
	QKI-SPS100	SPI Stepper Kard (One Channel micro-step driver 2A per phase) for KardIO Slot	Open	Closed	Production
x	QKI-BAB100	Bay Area Bridge Kard, (Dual H-Bridge Driver, 2.5A per H-Bridge	Closed	Closed	Download
	QKC-CAN100	Can Driver Kard for KardIO Slot 5 only	Open	Closed	Prototype
	QKC-SD100	Serial Driver Kard for KardCom Slot	Open	Closed	Production	Buy
x	QKI-TC100	4 Input K Type Thermocouple Kard	Closed	Closed	Pre-Production
x	QKI-DAC104	Four Channel 0-10VDC SPI DAC Kard for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Pre-Production
x	QKI-DAC101	One Channel 0-10VDC SPI DAC Kard for KardIO Slot	Closed	Closed	Pre-Production
x	QKI-BODAC100	The BODAC Kard - Three Break Out Connections and one 10-bit 0-10VDC SPI DAC, for KardIO Slot Rail0 DAC, Rail1 NC, Rail2 NC, Rail3 NC	Closed	Closed	Pre-Production
x	QKI-BODAC101	The BODAC Kard - Three Break Out Connections and one 10-bit 0-10VDC SPI DAC, for KardIO Slot (Rail0 DAC, Rail1 5v in analog, Rail2 10v in analog, Rail3 NC)	Closed	Closed	Pre-Production
x	QKI-PT100	Pass Through Kard for KardIO Slot	Open	Open	N/A
x	QKI-BLANK	Kard Blanche (Kard Template)	Open	Open	Download

Kard ID

Ideas and open questions

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