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Industrial Display

Posted on 24 September 2020 by admin

Recently required some large character displays for displaying of a 4,5 and 6 digit number behind a customised dashboard prominently displayed in several locations in the factory, the digit must be readable from very far away and needed to be … Continue reading →

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New Office and Workshop

Posted on 7 August 2019 by admin

Well I Finally completed the move of the electronics lab and workshop in to the new custom built work shop adjacent to the house. The new workshop is 144sqM so about 10 times the size of the old room I … Continue reading →

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Spocks Brain

Posted on 23 July 2018 by admin

There was an episode in the very first star trek series called “Spocks Brain” in which aliens use a machine to boost their intellegence and transplant out Spocks Brain into a computer. In the episode the skill to do this … Continue reading →

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USB Real-Time Clock for Raspberry Pi, etc

Posted on 13 December 2017 by admin

Unlike a PC the Raspberry Pi does not come with any sort real time clock. Usually this is not a problem as it is connected to the Internet and a simple poll of one of the many clock sources will … Continue reading →

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Re-Envisioning Mobile Communications

Posted on 23 August 2017 by admin

What follows is an un-researched flight of fancy I’m totally over smartphones! I went back to a dumb phone 12 months ago and my old smartphone is now just used as the remote control for Netflix, Viber calls (see below) … Continue reading →

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Uploading file data as a C Header

Posted on 12 October 2016 by admin

Quick and simple post. If you have a micro-controller and need to use some data from a file (say a static HTML web page or a bitmap) and you don’t have a file system then you need to convert the … Continue reading →

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PT100 Control Board for Raspberry Pi. Completed!

Posted on 22 August 2016 by admin

I have recently completed this project. It has the same specification as the previous post however a few improvements have been made in light of new information. The board is intended to accurately control the temperatures of 4 wine tanks … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi PT100 temperature sensor and control board

Posted on 8 June 2016 by admin

I am currently working on a small Project for David at Wine Technologies (vinwizard.us) to replace an older proprietary temperature control PLC. David decided he would like to use a Raspberry Pi due to the fact it is very powerful, … 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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