The PuffinPLC Project is an effort to produce a Linux-based GNU Public Licensed Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). PLCs were developed in the 1960s to replace the complex electrical relay circuits ...

As a industrial controls engineer that has worked globally, keep the arduino in hobby zone where it belongs. There are machines running with 20, or 30 year old control systems that are PLC controlled.

Vulnerabilities in electronic systems that control prison doors could allow hackers or others to spring prisoners from their jail cells, according to researchers.