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Short update

Posted on 7 April 2014 by admin

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)

Posted on 15 February 2014 by admin

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

Posted on 30 January 2014 by admin

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

Posted on 7 January 2014 by admin

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

Posted on 5 January 2014 by admin

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

Posted on 4 January 2014 by admin

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!

Posted on 18 December 2013 by admin

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

Posted on 18 December 2013 by admin

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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New Project “Catch 2”

Posted on 9 December 2013 by admin

Looks like I’m going to be re-writing my production processing software for one of my favourite client Omega Seafoods to add sales order functionality and enhance the production side accuracy using barcodes, all left off the original 2007 spec and … Continue reading →

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Fill Sensor Testing

Posted on 9 December 2013 by admin

The fill Sensor Mark 4 has proven to work real well with normal white and reds but sucks a bit when using clear bottles, so it was time to rip it out and look at where this bit went wrong. … Continue reading →

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Version 4 or is that 5!

Posted on 29 November 2013 by admin

While I’m looking into writing some of the firmware, and a PC Program to handle all the comms I thought I’d better fix all the hardware bugs I found and get a new version out. Version 4 was just me … Continue reading →

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Mobile Terminal Version 3 Up and (nearly) working

Posted on 20 November 2013 by admin

Getting a solder stencil really paid off as the new board came out of the oven cooked to perfection (well almost!) Prototype powered on with Wi-fi connection made. So whats working? Well the inspection showed a few pins of the … Continue reading →

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Boards and stencils from smart prototyping

Posted on 9 November 2013 by admin

Just for info, here are the latest PCB’s that I made at Smart Prototyping. First is the 3rd Version of the Mobile Terminal board, the gold finishing is nice but doesnt really come out on the photo. Below is the … Continue reading →

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