As HMI for the home automation over IP project I’m using a 7″ touchscreen. To get the best result from the screen I want to use it on it’s hardware resolution. This is 800×480 px, not a standard supported resolution. To get around the problem I installed Powerstrip, a very useful program to create custom [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Home automation over IP: the controller
Finally some progress in the home automation over IP project. The controller is put into it’s housing, there is some firmware written and there’s also some progress on the computer software.
To make it possible to mount the controller in a common electric cabinet it will be housed in a DIN Rail mountable enclosure.
To bring the [...]
Making Printed Circuit Boards - Toner Transfer
For the home automation over IP project I needed a fast and easy method for creating printed circuit boards (PCB). After some research the “toner transfer method” seemed a solution to give a try.
Not being sure about the quality of the final result I designed the PCB with wide paths. This way a lack of [...]