Projects

JP Clock

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:11:17 GMT

This is a fantastic project we've been requested by some people who want to spend a special gift to a former coworker.
The name of this lucky guy is "Jean-Philippe" that's the reason for the name "JP-Clock".
Background:
JP is a french guy living in Germany and he has a wonderful french accent. The only drawback when he talks is, that he repeats the word "ok" several times in every sentence.
So what the people were requesting was a simple counter that listens to him and count the word "ok".

Jean Philippe

A very nice idea and so we decided to create a prototype and see if it's doable.
We thought when we already have a box with a display, we can use it for more than just counting words.
So this was the featurelist for the "JP-Clock":

Word Counter (overall, words-per-day, word-per-day-highscore)
Alarm-Clock with DCF77-Time receiver
Control power outlets by voice
USB-Connection, for controlling a computer by voice or for firmware upgrades

So this box also can be usefull at home.

Here are some pics:

A very first draft.

All ordered parts arrived.

All parts assembled, housing is ready

Handmade, looks crappy - but works wonderfull - hey it's a prototype

The Prototype working.
Currently we are writing the firmware and do testing and bugfixing.
Then we will design a PCB and make a kit available for hobbyists.

X4U - Quality made in Germany
You have the idea - we will build it

Outlook AddIn - Prosperoware Zone

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:01:58 GMT

The users of this Addin can display documents of a Document Management System in a TaskPane that can be hidden and showed using a button in the RibbonUI.
When users creating new emails, they can open a dialog and browse for documents and mark them for download and attach to email.
The documents are downloaded locally and attached to the email.

A Taskpane that displays Webcontent of a Document Management System.
Users can select documents and attach them to Messages.

Ghost Control Box

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:56:49 GMT

This Box is a control unit for fun fairies and haunted house trains. It controls sound&lights and mechanics.
The onboard MP3-Module and a powerfull Amplifier brings superior sound quality in new dimensions.

Some features:

4 Programmable Power Outlets
MP3 Soundmodule with Micro-SD-Card
Steel case for rush environments
100W Power Amplifier
Waterproof Speakers
Compact size
Fuses for each Channel
Volume Control
Solid State Relais for Zero-Crossing
Hirschmann Connectors

Below you can see some pictures of the Control Units:

A Few Boxes

Electronic, Power Amplifier A Box, Steelcase open

Office Extension - SimplePaper

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:36:12 GMT

We built an Office Extension that allows a User to upload the current Document as well as Emails to a Online Document Management System available at www.Simplepaper.de

The Extension is available in multiple applications of the Microsoft Office 2010 Suite:

Outlook
PowerPoint
Word
Excel
Visio
Project

The Upload itself is a combination of Windows BITS-Services (Background Intelligenge Transfer Services) and a Webservice that controls the Metadata.

The Application is built on top of Add-In-Express tools and is delivered as Setup-Package.

Upload-Button in the RibbonUI

The Word Document Upload - When a Document is new or modified, the user is asked to save the doc first.

Outlook AddIn - InsureCGI

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:29:02 GMT

We built an Outlook Extension for C.G.I. Consumers' Guarantee Insurance seated on Bahamas.
The Extension allows the employers to assign Emails to Claims or Policies and saves the Emails and/or the Attachments as file into their existing Document Management System.
We build this extension quickly using Outlook 2010 and VSTO Technology and deployed them over the Internet onto the other side of the Globe.

Even changes and bugfixes can be developed and applied quickly, the AddIns update automatically.

Right-Click Menu to attach Emails to Policies or Claims.

When sending a new Email, the user is asked for Email Assignment.

The user can search for Clients and attach the Email and it's Attachments to a Policy or Claim related to the selected Client.

Flights database

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:46:01 GMT

In this project we collected about 5 million flight rates since 2008 of the route muc - bkk - muc. We will soon add some statistics for gettings the lowest rates over the year.

All data is collected by an ETL job using a self developed SSIS import connector.

Here is the data flow depicted with the open configuration dialog of the import connector:

After collecting the data, a SSAS cube is populated. A relational data snapshot is uploaded to the webserver.

All reports on the multi dimensional data are rendered as images in TIFF format, converted to the GIF format and uploaded to the webserver too.

Here you can see the main report in designer view:

Jingle Jim

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:29:47 GMT

Jingle Jim is a Software we created during several years. It's designed to work in Fairgrounds and Entertainment environments.

Some of our customers:

Calypso / Wienheim Promitreff / Merkl Wuschelwerfen / Jollberg

Insider / Aigner Top Spin No.1 / Bausch Techno Power / Eckl