Category Archives: Mobile Terminal

Terminal Update

Posted on 18 August 2014 by admin

PCB Rev 2 is working quite well. I have written the “drivers” (I guess thats the term!) for the Graphical LCD, barcode, Keyboard, RFID and Wifi. All said modules are working (though not in any way cohesively) however mechanically the … Continue reading →

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USR WiFi232-S awkwardness

Posted on 13 August 2014 by admin

OK so I have now found out the USR Wifi232-S Low power module, which has the following specs on the web site does not actually have a standby mode.Unfortunately my evaluation of the unit did not include checking sleep current so … Continue reading →

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Hack-a-Day IO

Posted on 15 July 2014 by admin

I’ve put the mobile terminal onto the hackaaday.io site as a project, I’m hoping to generate so feedback from it and to spur me in to action now I’ve officially been given a timetable to deliver a “product” by one … Continue reading →

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So Whats with all the designs Boz?

Posted on 22 June 2014 by admin

If you’ve had a look on my EasyEDA page (link on RHS), you will have seen two new designs for the mobile terminal (and a few others that I did while testing but never got off the ground) The first … Continue reading →

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No Setup Required!

Posted on 13 May 2014 by admin

In the miniscule time I have off in the evenings (all day writing the catch2 program at the moment), I’ve been working on the mobile software. For the last few weeks this has been concentrating on trying to get an … Continue reading →

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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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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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