3D Printing
3D printing has become mainstream over the last few years. It can now reliably be used by home hobbyists and small businesses to produce parts that would have been impossible just a few years ago.
Designing an outdoor people counter
Having been in the retail footfall counting business for a number of years I am well aware of the process of counting people, a sensor to ‘see’ the people, a data logger to record the counts and then a way of uploading the counts to a central server so the numbers can be seen by the client, however this presents a whole new set of challenges when there is no power and you are miles from anywhere…
Outdoor counting
Having been involved with people counting in retail stores for a number of years I was interested by a new challenge, counting people in the great outdoors!
ASP.net and SignalR
One of my clients had written their own realtime monitoring system for their industrial process, it works great except for the fact that it is only usable on the one PC and this is often not ideally located for the users.
They needed a realtime distributed monitoring system.
getWaiter! the story so far
getWaiter! is a service to provide better service to bar, restaurant and hotel customers while providing valuable performance information back to the venues management. A unique code is present on each of the service points (table, room etc) that the customers will scan and then presented with a series of buttons to call various actions, …
A tablet based inspection system?
One of my clients wanted to offer a simple low cost inspection system to one of their end users. A traditional low cost inspection system would cost several thousands of pounds, they were aiming at several hundred, what about using a tablet Vision systems A typical vision system consists of several key components: A camera. Image processing software. …
Wireless monitoring – part 2
The next phase has been completed, we are now collecting multiple temperature points from around the home, logging them to a MySQL server and have a basic web page to view the results. I have selected a digital sensor with an SPI interface. The microchip TC77 fits all the requirements with the exception of the …
Some previous projects….
Here are some of the things I have been involved with over the years…. Along time ago in some workshops not so far away….. Injection moulded parts The complete system One of the larger parts! The large part with all the scribbles on is one of the largest parts we made an inspection system for. …
Customer counting
Did you know that when you walk in to many high street stores and shopping centres (malls) there is a good chance you are being anonymously counted? I previously worked for one of the pioneers in footfall counting SPSL, now part of Ipsos.
Wireless monitoring
I have been dabbling in the ‘Internet of Things’ for a while and have finally decided to monitor some ‘things’ around home. I looked around at several off the shelf items as well as a few DIY type offerings (i.e. Open Energy Monitor) but found them to be to exclusive, to expensive, to power hungry, to …