I’ve just built the first of my new revision 3 RS232 Bit Rate Converter. It has the following improvements:
Cleaner, more stable RS232 output signal
Can accept a range of power supply voltages from 5V up to 12V
Has a professionally designed and printed vinyl label instead of the rather amateurish ones I was making myself
The design is [...]
I’m looking for a little bit of freelance work at the moment, if you are interested in someone to help you out with digital circuit design, embedded systems design or programming, application development or even web sites or server back end work, drop me a line at adam@siliconsparrow.com. I’ve put my Resumé online for you [...]
Being in the electronics design business, I am often ordering parts in small quantities and the best place to do that is Digi-Key. But it really annoys me that Digi-key can’t sort by price. When I’m looking for, say, a 470µF capacitor, it gives me 100 different ones to choose from, of course I just [...]
After looking at my sales figures, it seems the majority of my RS232 Rate Converter sales are going to America. I’ve only sold two into Australia ever, so it seems to me that pricing it in Australian dollars is not appropriate for this product, especially since the Australian dollar has been moving quite a lot [...]
It’s taken me a little while to fit this in around my freelance work and family obligations but finally I have put out a version 1.0 of Super Transcribe. This is transcription software for Windows. It allows you to load up a media file (most common formats supported) and slow down the replay so you [...]
I finally think the Super Transcribe software is good enough to inflict on the public. So I have put up the first beta release. It is still a little rough around the edges but it is certainly usable and even useful. Go to http://supertranscribe.com/ to download it and try it out.
Looking at the RS232 Bit Rate Converter website, I thought it needed more documentation so potential customers can find out more about the product before committing to buy one.
So I now have an FAQ and I added more details to the user manual, more than doubling it’s length. The user manual is now available in [...]
I’m official. I just received my business name registration in the post. Silicon Sparrow is now a registered business in New South Wales, ABN number 83-841-478-358. Now all I need is some more products and more customers…
By the way, do you like my new little bird logo at the top there, it was designed by [...]
Hello and welcome to my new corporate identity. This site is the centre of my current venture to establish myself as an independent designer of electronic and software products. At the moment, I only have one product, the Serial Bit Rate Converter which is fairly niche but I am working on more stuff. I’ll post [...]
