Accra is a counter card. It can be used for general counting but it also has functions that makes it perfect for energy measurements, counting pulses and sending out measurement values. A companion card for electricity meter power measurements is also in the pipe. Soon available in the FrogShop.
Beijing is a general CAN4VSCP I/O card. Ten I/O’s that can freely be configured as inputs or outputs and then be controlled remotely. Available in the FrogShop soon.
Before injecting the RFID chip into my body I got info about a NFC version which also has RFID so I bought it instead. Time for some action!
Two GPRS modems arrived today again. Why you ask. We want the best for our customers so we try out a few of them before we use them for our plug and play control solution.
Send SMS. “Turn on my xxx” or “prepare yyy” and things happen at some remote location and you suddenly realize that everything actually can be simple in your world.
One thing that is important in our world is that we communicate with small things. You can call it IoT/M2M or what you want but we just call it “working”. And this is also true when we ship gprs modules for SMS control of remote units.
The Google Smart Home Created by: ForRent.com Apartment Living
As most small companies we have a few choices when it comes to producing our products.
1.) We can solder and mount components in-house. This is time consuming as the pick-and-place step takes time but with a solder paste stencil and a reflow oven it is workable. We can do series of up to 100 boards this way. We usually have six boards on a panel like this.
2.) We can produce and mount the boards in China. For a card like the one above we pay $1-2 for mounting so this service has a nice price. With small series we have to pay a higher BOM cost then we do when me mount them ourselves as we then can buy more components as many of them are the same over several boards. The big drawback is that we tie up money on boards that sit on the shelf.
3.) The possibility to buy your own production equipment has been far away for small companies for a long time. Stencil printers and reflow ovens, as the one we have today is available since some time but now also a pick an place machine is available at a good price. It is this one
New article in the wiki about connecting CAN4VSCP devices together.
