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An interactive explainer shows kids how a pump fills a tyre

A prototype walks kids through how a pump works, step by step. The same format could teach new hires how the equipment in front of them works.

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3d-with-pid, 3 stars: one engineering model draws both the P&ID and the 3D skid model, so they stop drifting apart

In most plant design tools the P&ID and the 3D model are separate datasets and mismatches turn up late in a validation check. This prototype keeps permanent IDs apart from editable tags, so renaming or moving a pump updates every output or flags it as pending.

For piping designers and package engineers: see what a single source of truth for a skid could look like before the next revision fight.

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Serial Studio, 7,255 stars: a live dashboard for device data, with a paid build that reads PLCs directly

Describe the data format once and it draws plots, gauges and maps, records sessions and exports them. The free build covers serial, Bluetooth and network sockets; Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, CAN and Siemens S7 need the paid Pro build.

For instrumentation techs and automation engineers: a quick way to see what a device is actually sending before anyone builds on that data.