This is the next article in the series about our "Flower Machine". Of course a machine like this would be useless without any brain to control it. The industrial solution is called a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller). However a real PLC has a number of deal-breakers for us: It is expensive, full of proprietary software, and 99% of the time programming it is windows-only. Thus I set out to build an alternative: Meet the Poppy Logic Controller - a custom PLC-like device which mimics the real ...
