The ep5 Educational Broadcasting Foundation

The ep5 Educational Broadcasting Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable institution established in 1988. ep5 produces educational content for cable and for public radio and television. The ep5BAS open-source building and general-purpose automation project is pro bono publico, with no commercial objectives or goals. It seeks to make a useful and beginner-friendly automation tool widely available to all at no cost. ep5BAS fits into the process of building an automation system by providing a convenient starting point. A collection of C# source code intended to be used by programmers as starting points for unique applications, it can be thought of as a “toolbox” in the “programming cookbook” sense. This project will entail extensive use of EtherCAT, and volunteers experienced in EtherCAT on .NET are very welcome.