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December 05 - April 06
Work with the Chinese manufacture EverSparkle to produce a range of
unique optical products using a high end embedded processor. |
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August 05 - November 05
An ongoing project working closely with EverSparkle Technologies in
China to produce a new and inexpensive console incorporating LCD and
plug-in TV output options. |
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January 05 - June 05
Working with a high-end microprocessor to link together an iPod
with several discrete components to provide a high quality video
playing accessory. All work on the product is complete and is waiting
for client company to find funding to release the product to market.
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March 04 - December 04
A project for Mobi Technologies (MobiCam) to create a device
that used 1Mbit digital RF to transfer images from up to 4 separate
remote cameras back to a portable display unit. We where responsible
for all programming on the SunPlus CPU together and interfacing the
cameras, RF boards and LCD to the CPU. |
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April 04 - September 04
An AGB accessory which allowed Hasbro's Colour Video Now CD
movies to be played and displayed on the AGBs internal screen. Working
with Hasbro’s internal hardware engineers we created an FPGA to enable
the image bitstream to be decoded, enhanced and transferred through
the cartridge port and be displayed on the AGB's screen. We designed
the image enhancement routines (implement in the FPGA) and programmed
all the AGB user interface code which included passing back to the
FPGA play, pause, etc. commands. |
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February 03 - July 03
WormCAM 2 Enhancements to the first version of the AGB-camera
accessory, including better image compression to allow more images to
be stored in memory, auto brightness and improved PC software. |
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July 03 - September 03
Infra Red remote controller for PlayStation 2 which allowed any
infra-red TV remote controller to control the CD and DVD functions of
the PS2. |
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February 02 - July 02
A digital colour camera for GameBoy Advance (WormCAM) which
saves pictures to non-volatile RAM in the camera module. Additionally
WormCAM uses the AGB to provide picture editing, slide show,
Spy-Camera and PC-Link functions.
The project was engineered to interface through the AGB serial port to
the camera and NVRAM.
The mini-apps provided a paint program which allowed true colour
editing of pictures, allowing users to draw lines, filled/unfilled
rectangles, enter text all with multi-level undo/redo and then save
the edited image back to the NVRAM.
Spy-Camera uses motion detection algorithms to only save the picture
when a significant change has occurred over the last picture. PC-Link
is a Windows program linking WormCAM to a PC through the serial port.
It provides thumbnail and full screen views of the pictures saved in
the NVRAM; scaling and saving the pictures as .BMP files. |
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September 00 - July 01
WAVE Link/WAVE Back (Custom hardware).
A portable palm sized device aimed at the teenager market. Using 18
MHz Sharp 16-bit SM6010 processor and black and white LCD display. The
device provides standard calendar, notepad, calculator, etc.
applications together with email over a local network using RF
communication. The email application also allows attachments created
using the built in camera and audio sampling facilities to be
transmitted wirelessly up to 500 ft. We where responsible for
implementing the complete operating system for the hardware writing
low level drivers for: Flash RAM; camera; audio ampling/playback;
filing system; graphics primitives; interface to the RF hardware;
stylus reading; and downloadable game support. Additionally I
completed the Planner, Sketch Pad, Tape Deck, Auto Cam and Calculator
applications. |
