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CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Postgres, RAKtronics, SignalR, Software design, Work / By Richard Fisher

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!, RAKtronics, Work / By Richard Fisher

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, …

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My work [Everything else]

Mechanical design, Previous work, RAKtronics, Work / By Richard Fisher

While the electronics and software are the bulk of my career they are not everything I can do. Having worked for many types of company, both big and small across many areas I have picked up a few other bits and pieces along the way. Being of the practical type new stuff comes relatively easy and I’m …

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My work [Software]

RAKtronics, Software design, Work / By Richard Fisher

I grew up in the seventies computers were big, very expensive and not for the masses, the home computer revolution had not yet begun. The most technologically advanced thing in the home was the TV remote control to select one of the four channels! The closest I had come to a computer was a teletype …

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My work [Electronics]

Electronics design, Previous work, Work / By Richard Fisher

Electronics has always been my passion remains one of the core parts of what I do. Over the years software has played an ever increasing part of this work and these both now form the bulk of the work I have done and continue to do.

A tablet based inspection system?

Electronics design, Mechanical design, RAKtronics, Software design, Work / By Richard Fisher

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?

Wireless monitoring – part 2

Electronics design, IoT, Wireless monitoring / By Richard Fisher

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.

Some previous projects….

Electronics design, Mechanical design, Previous work, Software design, Work / By Richard Fisher

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. …

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Customer counting

Electronics design, Previous work, Software design, Work / By Richard Fisher

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

Electronics design, IoT, Personal stuff, Software design, Wireless monitoring / By Richard Fisher

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, …

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