SPLat Controls' affordable OEM HMI

[Hoopsaz5]

Looks great, well done David. Will be keeping an eye on the newsletter for their release. Are they buttons down the bottom, similar to a palm?

Brendan.

[splatmanoz]

@Hoopsaz5

Thank you Brendan.

The display module has no physical buttons - it's all touch screen. We might chose to engineer specific products with "hard" buttons. A typical embedded controller application would not really need them, given the controller is part of some overall apparatus that has its own power switch. Handheld devices like Palms and iPhones need some kind of hard button, if only to get started or as an over-riding return to the top command level.

D.

[DavidConroy74]

Well done David, this is a great, not sure about Keiths photo though. When will this be a standard machine add on?

[splatmanoz]

@DavidConroy74

The low cost 4D touch displays will be supported on our Next Generation (NG) controllers, not on the existing "classic" line. Classic controllers will support 3rd party HMIs via ModBus. The NG/4D approach results in very much easier programming.

[firstbigbarney]

David :

This is areal move ahead in your embedded processor line.

Will the next boards have USB supported?

BigBarney

[splatmanoz]

@firstbigbarney

The current plan is for the programming to be via USB (the try-out board in the clip is plain serial). Later we will explore general USB as a Device (slave). Master is very much harder. There is also the possibility of a memory card socket.

[ianspencer]

Very good David. Very good way to pass on education and news. A picture is worth 1000 words so I am not sure what a video is worth. Like to see more of these from you. Maybe you should get out of the office more :-)

[splatmanoz]

@ianspencer

Thanks Ian. I have a whole number of clips buzzing around in my head!

[lastchancename]

Nice work David.

[splatmanoz]

@lastchancename

Thanks. Fun, too :-)