This PLC may not be quite as robust as some products costing much more money, but it still represents a cost-effective way to access a microcontroller board with much of the interface circuitry ...
The Crusaders have returned home, or have been driven into the sea. The great microcontroller holy war is over. As with any acquisition, there is bound to be some crossover between two product lines.
I tried several types of microcontrollers on various personal projects ... An industrialized open-source and Arduino-compatible CPU interoperates with PLC I/O modules and various Arduino “shields.” ...