Electronic Product Development - Fidus Systems

High-speed Electronic Product Development (EPD) with extensive design experience in turnkey product development and technical knowledge in System Design and Architecture.

Electronic Product Development - Fidus Systems

Some Areas of Service Include

• FPGA/CPLD Design
• DSP Design
• PCB Layout & Signal Integrity
• RF/Wireless Design
• Automated Identification Systems (AIS)

Fidus delivers Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI) and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) analysis for on-chip IC (Integrated Circuit) design, Package design, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and System design. - Signal Integrity/EMC - Fidus Systems

Make a Custom eZ430 Chronos Watch

When i saw this i remember my High School friend Abhi (Abhinandan), he had built an advanced DIY Wrist Watch with LED Display and Radio, there might have been a temperature mode too.

This Gizmo got many students wildly interested in Electronics. He also developed a Learning Kit 'Chip Chap' for 555. An Innovative Education Kit Developer Dynam was making it..

Here is one such Temperature, Wireless, USB Data Logger Watch Development Tool. But for an entirely New Generation. - Ananth

eZ430-Chronos wireless watch - TI

The eZ430-Chronos is a highly integrated, wearable wireless development system based for the CC430 in a sports watch. It may be used as a reference platform for watch systems, a personal display for personal area networks, or as a wireless sensor node for remote data collection.

IAR Systems has collaborated with TI to develop some unique application examples for the TI Chronos Watch using IAR visualSTATE and IAR Embedded Workbench. The example applications are using the low power wireless communication hardware built into the Chronos watch to communicate with a heart rate monitor.

Rugged Circuits - Design Service

Design and Manufacturing Service for Industrial Embedded Systems for Robust Requirements. Services include component selection, PCB design, prototyping, manufacturing, and distribution.

Rugged Circuits - Design Service

Custom control system for an industrial machine

Triple RS485 outputs, graphic LCD display interface with dimmable backlight, 4x4 keypad interface, real-time clock, 8 discrete and protected I/O's, and in-the-field firmware upgrades over USB.

They also have a estore with products related to Ruggeduino (Rugged+Arduino ), including components, kits, Shields. The products like Rugged Motor Driver and Yellowjacket a WiFi microcontroller module, need special mention.

Lanconelli Open Systems - LancOS

Claudio Lanconelli is a experienced PC and embedded programmer.

Lanconelli Open Systems - LancOS

Embedded systems and programming. Projects Featured are - PonyProg, the most popular eeprom programmer on the Internet. CARACA, the free home automation system based on CANBus. WebTherm, a simple on-line thermometer.

PonyProg is a serial device programmer software with a user friendly GUI framework available for Windows95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Intel Linux. Its purpose is reading and writing every serial device. At the moment it supports I²C Bus, Microwire, SPI eeprom, the Atmel AVR and Microchip PIC micro.

Arduino Interfacing with Visual Basic

I have tried VB2 and VB6. It is an easy environment for Hardware Engineers or Hobbyists to program. It means easy to code unlike C++. Programs made with the new VB may not be compact or fast; but as it runs on a Virtual DotNet Machine and is bug-safe and may not hang/boot too. The DotNet was MS answer to Java of Sun. Even Java is a simple language and it seems to be lighter too. DotNet of late has become a bigger download, more than 10 times the size it started with.

MS can try Visual Basic Webapp on the Cloud using HTML5. Even remotely hosted DotNet is better, with the VB Apps as Web Applications using DotNet WebService. Then nothing to download, neither the update or the security fixes. Just provide something like jQuery for DotNet. Web VB would be a better thing for developers.

Its possible, i have collected many WebApps here, Dact Apps - Web Applications for an Engineer or Hobbyist

Arduino is a QuickStart Embedded system, very useful in learning both the hardware and software elements of a system. "http://flakelabs.com/">Michael of Flakelabs is started using the .Net Micro Framework. This is something like an OS for a
Small HandHeld Device.

4.1 release, the .NET Micro Framework enables developers to create powerful embedded systems that are more securely connected through a variety of wired and wireless protocols. The 4.1 release is also the first release under the Apache 2.0 license.

From what i understand, the developed app can be burned into the device fully, no additional layer of OS or Firmware needed, It is all built in. In short the compiled binary can be either a stand-alone firmware(OS) or be a layer running over a Mobile OS.

Now putting Ardunio and VB together, we get an Hardware/Software Environment that is easy on students and hobbyists too.

Fermata written by Andrew Craigie

Firmata is a generic protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a host computer. It is intended to work with any host computer software package. See more examples ….

Arduino - Simple temperature monitor also see Visual C++ and Arduino

"Then for those that liked Java, He gave the Processing … thenceforward, the Inspired People made many Large Sketches and the Globe Glowed like Warm White LED Lamp"

(Processing is an IDE. It can also be used in Android mode, for that you will need Android SDK Installed.)

See this Steven's Temperature Display and this Serial Comm using Processing. This compiles Java exe and Jar Applets. It can create programs for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Sketches remind me of Patterns, many learnt Java with Patterns; when Java was extremely popular.

In the Good old days it was like DotCom'ing the World, Later began a DotNet'ing the Planet. Here we can see a interesting pattern again today, an echo from the past.

Oh its Larry-n-Billy of Yore.

The Sky is blue and it is nice and Sunny.

The Software on the Cloud, is indeed very Funny.