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Ever get the feeling something big is about to happen?

Posted on 10 March 2016 by admin

I always seem to start blogs these days with how crazy busy I am, and while that is true, it is also boring and totally un-newsworthy. Instead lets talk the future, and, as anyone who knows me will tell you, … Continue reading →

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Serial Port combiner for RFID station

Posted on 22 December 2015 by admin

I have a project where the HMI (Human-Machine Interface – ie the touch screen PC) is situated 20M from the station. Normally I would move the screen but this time it was not possible. The station has a printer and … Continue reading →

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Adding a Message Of the Day or Quote of the Day to your system

Posted on 19 October 2015 by admin

Got handed a nice SQL file a few years back, one which I slip into most of my applications and one that generates quotes of the day, (or Message of the day – MOTD) there are 1462 records or about … Continue reading →

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Catch Production system. First Screen shots

Posted on 10 October 2015 by admin

Wow, I’ve never been so busy! The first incomplete version of the Catch Production System has been installed in the factory. Several parts still need to be written such as the packing and dispatch screens and these will be addressed … Continue reading →

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Bloody Auditors!

Posted on 16 August 2015 by admin

… Are one of the main the reasons I’ve been glued to my PC for the past 3 months, during my usually quiet times. As your business transitions from small to medium or you start to export items (especially food-items) … Continue reading →

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ICD3 Finally working in MPLABX

Posted on 17 July 2015 by admin

I had almost given up on this one. Around the move from MPLAB8 to MPLABX my poor old ICD2 debugger stopped working, my PICKIT3 still worked OK but I never got to the bottom of it. Working mostly on the … Continue reading →

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A Better kind of Job Instruction

Posted on 16 June 2015 by admin

Job sheets are the staple of any production system, they tell the “factory floor” what to manufacture, how many to manufacture and how to do it. Most of the metrics on a job order are calculated using a bill of … Continue reading →

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Tinkering around

Posted on 4 April 2015 by admin

While the case design for the mobile terminal version 1 is set in stone and will not change, I have been thinking of all the messing about I’ve gone through to get to the stage of having a half decent … Continue reading →

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Slow progress on RFID decoding

Posted on 19 March 2015 by admin

From a previous post you may remember this diagram The seleae logic analyser did a good job of decoding this because if you can see, the variation between long and short pulses in some cases are well outside most algorithms … Continue reading →

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Vintage Mode.

Posted on 10 March 2015 by admin

Yes, significant lack of progress on projects and posts can only mean one thing.. Fully back to the vintage grindstone! Nothing to do but be poised on the end of the phone to tweak Delphi code and fix stuff-ups on the … Continue reading →

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