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

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

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!

… 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

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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Vintage Mode.

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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Data Collection Terminal End-Game (Putting it all together)

Getting close to the end game of the mobile data-collection terminal and its here we start to think of how all the different parts are going to fit together as a whole to be useful. As an aid for me … Continue reading

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One down, five to go!

Just Finished the hardware, firmware and documentation for the Wine Technologies Multi-Level-Probe. It was nice to go back to a simpler type of project but the customer wanted it that way so it could be assembled in New Zealand (and, … Continue reading

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Movember Update

Shaving This weekend – Thank god!

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Never enough serial ports

UARTS are great. Almost all peripherals have the option to communicate using a simple serial protocol. For my latest project a weighbridge HMI interface I needed 2 serial ports but wanted to use a low end PIC18 in order to … Continue reading

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Off to the UK – Book picks..

Off to the UK next week for a show, a little business and to catch up with old acquaintances from my previous life 10 years ago,  mainly in Manchester, London and Cheltenham. Those who know me know I hate flying … Continue reading

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