Sales of the RS232 Rate Converter were a little slow throughout October and November but they sure have caught up in the last couple of weeks. I thought I had enough stock to see me through until January but after a flurry of orders, I am now completely sold out. So I’ve been frantically ordering [...]
Well, the RS232 Rate Converter is pretty mature now. It does it’s job well and there is not a lot of improvements to make to it anymore. So what to do next? I’ve been talking with a friend in the home automation business and he reckons there’d be a small market for an RS232 controllable [...]
I liked the new Super Transcribe site that Bea designed for me so much, I copied the design to Serial Gadget too! It has the Silicon Sparrow logo at the top and a more prominent BUY button. The colour scheme is much improved and it ties in well with my current branding exercise. It looks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of my peeves about the electronics business is the poor availability of parts. I’d found this brilliant AP1115 power regulator from Diodes Inc. which I’ve been using for months in my RS232 Rate Converter but now, you can’t get them anymore. I haven’t found a supplier who stocks this part since June and my [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been working on a few things to improve the RS232 Bit Rate Converter. Here’s my new revision 3 circuit board. There are some extra capacitors to smooth out a little noise I was getting in the serial data stream and I have also outsourced the machining of the end panels. The changes are to [...]