A very realistic visualization was done with Flash sequences. Yellowstone's soft PLC provides an IEC-1131 compliant graphical development environment. Another Linux machine was doing fast optical barcode recognition on books. At the booth, a Linux-based demo application was shown. Unfortunately, large portions of the software are not currently ported to Linux.
Companies are able to install a server for most Internet services without much knowledge.
The systems are configurable by a web browser. Some Linux based communication solutions were shown at the exhibition. In a Fischertechnik horseshoe, a magnet and some sensors are used to make a sphere hover. This year they showed a version without the built-in 10 megabit network of previous versions, which draws less 200 mW and is ideally suited for mobile instruments. It allows you to generate a visualization interface by means of a graphical editor.