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Re-using pre-existing cases to make your design shine!

So there you have it, you’ve designed your first electronic circuit and your now ready to make a million dollars from your glorious creation.. But wait..   Maybe the presentation is a teeny bit bit lacking! Hasn’t really got that … Continue reading

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Logo

Thanks for the New Logo alex! It does look a bit familiar but damned if anyone around here knows if it has been used, even google image search does not have a clue if you type in things like globe … Continue reading

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Short update

February and March have flown by and I’m now coming to the end of my major support period (thank god!) Have got a real backlog of work to catch up on, including the full re-write of the Omega Seafoods Production … Continue reading

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Secret Sauce, (Putting the Mobile System altogether)

I was recently contacted by JJ from France about the mobile terminal I am designing for one of my clients, specifically regarding how it would fit together and if he eventually emulated the design how he would interface it to … Continue reading

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Job Checklists

Had a interesting discussion with one of the Indevin Senior Managers around how they were going to use the mobile terminal system, the discussion was interesting an up-played its  importance significantly in their industry and how they ultimately see it … Continue reading

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Hack-a-Day and Github

Thanks to Hack-a-day for approving my suggestion to put on the fill level sensor write-up and thanks to all the comments on the site and via email I hope the files prove useful to at least one person As a … Continue reading

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Mobile Terminal Power On/Off

Had a good long think about how the cellar hands currently need the system to work so I can better customise the system for them, there seem to be a few basic actions required and these are really quite simple … Continue reading

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HK Here I come

Got a stop over for 2 days (weekend unfortunately) in Hong Kong, its been over 20 years since I lived there and I cant wait to see how much everything has changed. I was hoping to use the time to … Continue reading

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Version 5 Power Up!

After a really long wait to assemble the PCB (See Time is not your friend) I managed to get a few hours to glue everything together, cook it and power it all up. I noticed the FFC connectors were a … Continue reading

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Time is not your friend

Prioritisation is a painful thing, as a business person you must prioritise for the customers and projects you already have (and will be charging for) over cooler projects and new customers you think you may have. When you work for … Continue reading

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