Hi Bill -- wish I could be there with you. Heck, I wish I could hang on the live feed but I got metered internet now. As soon as next year's dates are set I'll have my reservation in though.
I never expected SVT1 to stay a big secret in this community, after all there's a great big honking DIP40 P8X32A which we didn't bother to sandpaper the part number off of so anyone who is remotely curious will end up here and figure out what happened. But most of the people I was thinking about when we had that talk aren't energetic enough to do that, we just wanted them to go "Oh, LR's company is making boards now." I have to say the idea to hide your copyright notice under the RTC lithium battery holder was pure genius.
My peeps are finally starting to wake up to some of the possibilities that exist now that we have a pile of these things in stock. Last week a project that's been dormant for 4 years came back online; there are seven in-motion checkweighers (for 50 lb bags of powdered product) at a nearby manufacturing plant, and they're all hopelessly obsolete. Back in the day we got a nibble about replacing the electronics but when we gave them the price quote (after I did all the dev work) they got cold feet and found someone who had a spare board in their basement for the old controller. OK, whatever. Well now they have another one and they're getting the memo.
This system has a bar of five lights for hi - hi/OK - OK low/OK - low as bags pass across it. The tech who reintroduced them to the idea of actually doing it with new hardware also suggested ditching the light bar for a LCD monitor and SVT1, so they could have the weight displayed in big numbers as well as good/bad color coding to see from across the production room.
Everybody who sees one of those LCD monitors with the big numbers and color changing background reacts like a three year old with a helium balloon. It's really amazing how useful it is.
localroger said...
Hi Bill -- wish I could be there with you. Heck, I wish I could hang on the live feed but I got metered internet now. As soon as next year's dates are set I'll have my reservation in though.
Hi Roger!
It would have been great to have you there! I look forward to seeing you there next year.
localroger said...
I never expected SVT1 to stay a big secret in this community, after all there's a great big honking DIP40 P8X32A which we didn't bother to sandpaper the part number off of so anyone who is remotely curious will end up here and figure out what happened. But most of the people I was thinking about when we had that talk aren't energetic enough to do that, we just wanted them to go "Oh, LR's company is making boards now." I have to say the idea to hide your copyright notice under the RTC lithium battery holder was pure genius.
Thanks
I take confidentiality seriously.
I did have an SVT1 at the show (I hope you don't mind)
A certain part of the board blacked out, white taped, blacked out again, and white taped again so certain text could not be seen [noparse]:)[/noparse]
Everyone who saw it really liked it!
localroger said...
My peeps are finally starting to wake up to some of the possibilities that exist now that we have a pile of these things in stock. Last week a project that's been dormant for 4 years came back online; there are seven in-motion checkweighers (for 50 lb bags of powdered product) at a nearby manufacturing plant, and they're all hopelessly obsolete. Back in the day we got a nibble about replacing the electronics but when we gave them the price quote (after I did all the dev work) they got cold feet and found someone who had a spare board in their basement for the old controller. OK, whatever. Well now they have another one and they're getting the memo.
This system has a bar of five lights for hi - hi/OK - OK low/OK - low as bags pass across it. The tech who reintroduced them to the idea of actually doing it with new hardware also suggested ditching the light bar for a LCD monitor and SVT1, so they could have the weight displayed in big numbers as well as good/bad color coding to see from across the production room.
Sounds good! Heck, once they see that on the LCD, they will never go back to indicator lights.
localroger said...
Everybody who sees one of those LCD monitors with the big numbers and color changing background reacts like a three year old with a helium balloon. It's really amazing how useful it is.
Oh, the last parcel arrived safely too
Glad to hear it!
You did a great job on getting big numbers and attention getting backgrounds on the LCD's.
When the production PCB's come in, I'll be making a quick data sheet for it which will have shots of the PCB.
This ended up being a very nice little board - the outcome of kicking the functional design back and forth for a while between Sapieha and myself followed by Sapieha PCB layout magic!
Everyone - would there be any interest in a prototyping shield for CPUModule? Perhaps with patterns for TV out, PS/2 keyboard, one audio channel, and a uSD connector?
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I never expected SVT1 to stay a big secret in this community, after all there's a great big honking DIP40 P8X32A which we didn't bother to sandpaper the part number off of so anyone who is remotely curious will end up here and figure out what happened. But most of the people I was thinking about when we had that talk aren't energetic enough to do that, we just wanted them to go "Oh, LR's company is making boards now." I have to say the idea to hide your copyright notice under the RTC lithium battery holder was pure genius.
My peeps are finally starting to wake up to some of the possibilities that exist now that we have a pile of these things in stock. Last week a project that's been dormant for 4 years came back online; there are seven in-motion checkweighers (for 50 lb bags of powdered product) at a nearby manufacturing plant, and they're all hopelessly obsolete. Back in the day we got a nibble about replacing the electronics but when we gave them the price quote (after I did all the dev work) they got cold feet and found someone who had a spare board in their basement for the old controller. OK, whatever. Well now they have another one and they're getting the memo.
This system has a bar of five lights for hi - hi/OK - OK low/OK - low as bags pass across it. The tech who reintroduced them to the idea of actually doing it with new hardware also suggested ditching the light bar for a LCD monitor and SVT1, so they could have the weight displayed in big numbers as well as good/bad color coding to see from across the production room.
Everybody who sees one of those LCD monitors with the big numbers and color changing background reacts like a three year old with a helium balloon. It's really amazing how useful it is.
Oh, the last parcel arrived safely too
Thanks for comments.
Tomorrow I will add much more descriptions to all boards and some more ones.
As fast I get time to generate them.
Christoffer J
Sapieha did his usual incredible job on the layouts... and now renderings too!
I am back home now, and will post more [noparse]:)[/noparse]
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Hi Roger!
It would have been great to have you there! I look forward to seeing you there next year.
Thanks
I take confidentiality seriously.
I did have an SVT1 at the show (I hope you don't mind)
A certain part of the board blacked out, white taped, blacked out again, and white taped again so certain text could not be seen [noparse]:)[/noparse]
Everyone who saw it really liked it!
Sounds good! Heck, once they see that on the LCD, they will never go back to indicator lights.
Glad to hear it!
You did a great job on getting big numbers and attention getting backgrounds on the LCD's.
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www.mikronauts.com E-mail: mikronauts _at_ gmail _dot_ com
My products: Morpheus / Mem+ / PropCade / FlexMem / VMCOG / Propteus / Proteus / SerPlug
and 6.250MHz Crystals to run Propellers at 100MHz & 5.0" OEM TFT VGA LCD modules
Las - Large model assembler Largos - upcoming nano operating system
I have started adding Descriptions.
Any chance you could post the copper layers?
I'd like to see the way you lay out the traces.
I think it would be educational to those of us wanting to make our own boards sometime.
Your work is always high quality; I'm sure it could be used as an example of the way things should be done when laying out a PCB.
I'd understand if you don't want to post them. I hope this isn't an inappropriate request.
Thanks,
Duane
When the production PCB's come in, I'll be making a quick data sheet for it which will have shots of the PCB.
This ended up being a very nice little board - the outcome of kicking the functional design back and forth for a while between Sapieha and myself
Everyone - would there be any interest in a prototyping shield for CPUModule? Perhaps with patterns for TV out, PS/2 keyboard, one audio channel, and a uSD connector?
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