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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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Tagged auto power off, MOSFET, power control
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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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New Project “Catch 2”
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
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!
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
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
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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Tagged smart prototyping
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Almost there!
Stuart installed the latest revision onto the production line yesterday as they had a run of Sauvignon Blanc in standard green bottles going through. When I got there I was greeted with a “it dont work” as the manager had … Continue reading
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Things not quite right
As predicted the fill sensor performed miserably on clear bottles using the default settings and one of the operators noticed a mysterious lock up, where the sensor seemed to hang every now and then but became responsive again after a … Continue reading
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