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ScoreSure is finally mobile!
Posted by Chris
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
That's right. No more messy wires, breadboards or power cables - the ScoreSure device is finally mobile. After building a PCB and testing it (can you believe it actually worked first time?) the only thing to do was fill the eeprom with bitmap and menu data.
Bitmap data was generated using a custom VB app and loaded into eeprom by putting the device into "usb mode" and connecting the USB cable to our 4-pin USB header (making sure the D+ and D- connections were the right way around!).
Work is in progress to convert this VB app into a Flash-based/online app.
Already done is the menu generating software. Here's an example of how we generated the menu data:
After drawing the menus and generating a "byte-stream" this data was loaded into eeprom using the same method as we did for downloading bitmap data. Here's a screenie showing (confusing as ever) the ScoreSure Golf Pro opening screen bitmap (it was the only one to hand at the time) and the start menu from the ScoreSure Petanque Pro device.
Bitmap data was generated using a custom VB app and loaded into eeprom by putting the device into "usb mode" and connecting the USB cable to our 4-pin USB header (making sure the D+ and D- connections were the right way around!).
Work is in progress to convert this VB app into a Flash-based/online app.
Already done is the menu generating software. Here's an example of how we generated the menu data:
After drawing the menus and generating a "byte-stream" this data was loaded into eeprom using the same method as we did for downloading bitmap data. Here's a screenie showing (confusing as ever) the ScoreSure Golf Pro opening screen bitmap (it was the only one to hand at the time) and the start menu from the ScoreSure Petanque Pro device.
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