Overview
This Arduino MKR shield expand your Arduino MKR with functions for smart metering via meter bus (M-BUS). With the M-BUS Master Shield you can read consumption meters for heat, gas, oil, water that have a built-in M-BUS slave interface.
Tech specs
M-Bus (meter bus) Master:
- Powered by an external 9..30V DC voltage (36V for the MBUS will be generated internally from this voltage)
- Up to 6 unit loads can be powered
- isolated interface
- Can be combined with any Arduino MKR board or Portenta H7
Conformities
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As a continuation from his previous Arduino BASIC interpreter project, Stefan Lenz wanted to take things a step further by recreating a home computer from the 1980s with an Arduino Due board and just a few other components. His system combines a 7" 800 x 480 TFT screen, an SD card reader acting as the disk, and a PS/2 port for connecting a keyboard. He began by mounting the TFT display shield to the Arduino by slotting it in place and inserting an SD card to function as the external disk since floppy drives have long since disappeared and would be far too unwieldy. After soldering some additional wires to the SPI and I2C bus pins, a level shifter was attached to two digital pins that serve as the data and clock lines for the external PS/2 socket. Most of the “magic” in this project comes from the programming which handles everything from reading inputs to showing graphics on the LCD and even interfacing with other peripherals over either I2C or SPI. All of the code needed for this retro home computer can be found here in Lenz’s tinybasic repository, which contains a plethora of example projects and demonstrations that can be run/modified.
