In production !

Yes yes finally my project reached the production stage. It's been 4 weeks now that the PCBs are mounted in the electrical closet. I had a few problems in the beginning but these are solved now. Let me show a few pictures to let you see how the final production is implemented live. The pictures are sorted in time as the work progressed from the old system towards the new cortex based system:

Old system based on multiple AVRs in master slave.

Old system shutdown and empty closet waiting for the new boards.

New boards mounted.

New boards fully wired
and ready to go.

Completed.

I2C2USB board integrated
in final design.

Dimmer board in action.

So after 2 years I can say that this project is finally finished. I still have some things todo but as for now I'm running with version 2.1 and this already seems to be pretty stable. I have to work on the communication making the final GUI that connects to the I2C2USB server (refer to my dedicated blog to read more). This will be done in javaFX some new scripting language I'm busy to learn as we speak. I learned many new things doing this project and I experimented a lot with small proof of concepts. This way of working works pretty good I must say. First gather the little blocks you need, study on them and finally bring them together in complete system. Of course I couldn't have done the job on my own therefore many thanks to my best friend Ronny. He did a great job in designing the hardware for me. We always had some good conversations (between some Belgium bears ;-)  on several technical topics in a way that the software and hardware pieces melted together quickly and easily. So again I couldn't have done it without him. Great job my friend !

This blog will probably be one of my last here in this topic which was focused on the overall hardware design. Maybe I will start a new one building the GUI stuff that still has to be done. Seems to be a good idea. So keep checking my blogs once and while.

I'm a very very little little bit bit wiser now ;-)