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A project log for Data Collection Terminal

General purpose low cost handheld terminal with screen/kbd, wifi, barcode and RFID reader for industrial or commercial (or any other) use

bozBoz 07/15/2014 at 06:170 Comments

Added pictures of the actual enclosure and its membrane keyboard overlay.

Looks quite professional (though unfortunately a bit dated),  the insides are another story, yes its all smoke and mirrors folks,  there is a badly fitting circuit board with most of the major components squashed in all a bit of a squeeze but hopefully nothing that cannot be fixed by a few design changes on the next board in a few weeks time. 

All good marketing though and it is good enough to show you guys and my prospective clients how it will look and how much it will weigh when it's finished.

The plan is that this will probably end up as the version 1 system, I would still like to try and do a version 2 with a proper colour touchscreen and laser scanner as originally envisaged (especially laser scanner). That plan fizzled out when I saw how badly the TFT behaved in direct sunlight and how much more difficult the case would have been to make to get all the components in, I've since seen some expensive 2.8" transflective screens but I'm not too sure of availability and the manual was not available even from the supplier

The other major thing to say is that the colour/touchscreen did not really add anything that this unit can do except a bit of kudos and of course looking much better.

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