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Category Archives: Programming
2025, My Final Vintage and Open For New Business
Fran, Allison and Me by the Wineries Continuous Floatation System March 2025 I developed the original Bulls-i winery management program for Indevin Ltd back in 2008 when they were just a small winery based in a single site in Blenheim, … Continue reading
Posted in Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, MRP, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Project Management, SQL, Villa Maria
Tagged C Programmer, contract work, Delphi Developer, Delphi programmer, Electronics Design, end of project, full-time, indevin, New Zealand, part-time, SQL administration, SQL Development
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Industrial Display
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
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
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USB Real-Time Clock for Raspberry Pi, etc
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
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
Tagged CDC, DS1307, PIC16F455, Raspberry Pi, RTC, USB
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Encryption for very low data rate embedded systems
If your latest IOT project needs to run on batteries for a few years and you need to send some important data over the airwaves or across a serial line then you are in a bit of a poor situation … Continue reading
Uploading file data as a C Header
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
Posted in C Programming, Pascal Programming, Uncategorized
Tagged C Header, Lazarus
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PT100 Control Board for Raspberry Pi. Completed!
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
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized, Vinwizard
Tagged PIC 16F1782, PT100, Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi PT100 temperature sensor and control board
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
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, Uncategorized, Vinwizard
Tagged 16F1782, AN687, EasyEDA, PT100
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Serial Port combiner for RFID station
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
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
Posted in FOSS, Funny, MySQL, Uncategorized
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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
Posted in catch2, MRP, Omega Seafood, Pascal Programming
Tagged Omega Seafood
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