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Apr 24 ’12
Tibbo’s Russian partners, SCANCODE, recently participated in the New Electronix exhibition, showcasing Tibbo’s latest products. Nicely done!
Mar 6 ’12
Last week, Tibbo’s Italian distributors, RCC Italy exhibited at the IPACK-IMA expo. It’s a five-day long expo, and RCC Italy made the best of it! We wish we had crazy pictures to show you, but these two informative images of their booth will have to do — note the wide range of devices RCC Italy had on display. Way to go, RCC!
Feb 23 ’12
Woah, Check Out That Antenna!
That’s right: Our “DS1000” family of BASIC-programmable industrial controllers has just gotten bigger with the addition of Wi-Fi and GPRS-enabled DS101x devices! The new wireless interfaces expand the range of potential DS101x applications, and also improve reliability of your industrial control solutions. Ethernet is out? Just switch over to Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi’s dead, too? Okay, there’s always GPRS! A DS101x controller may not help you in case of a zombie apocalypse, but with its rugged casing and multiple connectivity options, it will hold up against many other troubles in the field. While adding wireless connectivity, DS101x devices preserve all the existing features of the DS100x line. Serial comms? Choose DS1010/2/3. Analog I/O? There is the DS1014. Digital I/O is covered by the DS1015.
Jan 20 ’12
It’s the end of the Chinese year, and we just held our traditional party! Check out those wings, Internet.
Jan 16 ’12
We’ve recently had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Amilcar Appel, from our Brazilian distributor, Akiyama. Mr. Appel joined us for some Tibbo BASIC training, which proved to be both fun and productive. It was a pleasure, and we hope to see you again soon!
Dec 29 ’11
Great News For Remote Upgrading Your DeviceYou know that feeling, right after a few days of hard partying and holiday dinners, when you have trouble fitting into your clothes? The same jeans fit just fine a few days ago, but now you need to suck it in and ZIP. Well, the same thing can happen to your projects. If you’ve got 1MB of space on the device, and your project is 600KB large, you’re going to have a problem when you try to remotely upgrade it. Or rather, you used to have that problem — not anymore! We’ve just relaesed LZO compression for Tibbo programmable devices, with a very nice example. You can now zip your projects, upload them, and unzip right on the device! It’s awesome. Go try it now.
Dec 27 ’11
And this is the winning entry (first prize) in our Taiko Cup! It’s a team from Nan Jeon Institute of Technology, department of Computer Science and Information. The project is called “Agriculture Denfender”, and is an automated car with a scarecrow mounted on top. The car can be remote controlled and has an ultrasonic sensor which senses birds flying overhead and triggers a fan on top, as well as a siren to scare the birds away. The idea is that a traditional scarecrow does not really work anymore as birds have adopted to it and knows that it causes no threat. This project showed good use of Tibbo programmable devices. The car is based on EM1206EV+GA1000. It controls all onboard sensors while acting as a data collector and transmitter between the car and the central server. This project shows innovation, pratical application and real-world usability. Great work, guys!
Dec 24 ’11
Dec 22 ’11
Today we’d like to share the second place winners in the Taiko Cup competition. Second place went to the team from National Taipei University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology. The system is a home safety system comprised of an IP camera, hazard sensors, magnetic triggers, pressure sensor and motion sensors. The system is particularly suited for installation at extended care facilities for senior citizens. Aside from common hazard sensors such as gas, heat and sound, the team also implemented pressure sensors on the bed so if the patient is out of bed or fell off, a caretaker will be notified immediately through one of three alart mechnisms (SMS, visual alarm, audio alarm). The system can also be accessed through the web interface and be monitored remotely.
Dec 20 ’11
Over the next few posts, we will be taking a look at some of the teams from our Taiko Cup. Above you can see our third place winners, the team from TamKang University, Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering. The team created a low-cost point-of-sale system which utilizes a simple electronic scale, and a Tibbo EM1000TEV. The EM1000TEV performs several pre-programmed operations during the check out process, and keeps each sales record in memory. Logs and transactions can then be viewed remotely via its internal Web server.
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