Welcome!
Thanks for coming to Brainyware! We help people with ideas get them translated into reality. We do digital and analog electronics design, including embedded micro controllers. We also write software to get the electronics communicating with (and controlled by) PCs, PDAs, Notepads, Smart Phones, etc. using serial, Bluetooth, radio, or network connections. We can write in everything from straight C and C++ to BASIC to Delpi/Pascal. We're just about up to speed on Java for the Android platform.
We have worked on projects from low budget to expensive, from high-end ladies handbags to hidden and discreet radiation monitors. These "motes" babysit large industrial radiation sources and provide notification via satellite should one go missing. (Big challenges included getting them certified for ship deck use, and the fact they had to transmit the current radiation rates (wirelessly) through a repeater to a satellite on a continuous basis using only three "AA" batteries as the power source--batteries needed to be changed less frequently than once per year. Oh, and they weren't allowed to look like a radiation detector or a transmitter, just a plain drab box.) We've also completed a high-gain antenna for our local high school football team so they could use their existing wireless microphone to sing the National Anthem from the middle of the field. A four-element half-wave colinear antenna took about an hour to design an build using extra parts kicking around in the lab. It looks good mounted on the side of the press box and has extended the range to where it was needed. We've also repaired and rewired their scoreboard's RS-422 connection and did some board-level repairs to make all the scoreboard's elements work correctly. (And no, we did not charge them a thing; go Bobcats!)
We put software and components here that don’t quite fit in with our normal day jobs. It still going to tend towards the nerdy side however. Most of our products and applications were developed first for our own use and we hope they might be useful for others as well.
With the economy more or less tanking at the moment Brainyware, never a very large business (and we all have day jobs), has not been doing a lot since the PalmOS died. Our premier product was the CASL programming language and environment where a single code base could be compiled for the PalmOS, WindowsCE/Windows Mobile, and Windows PC devices. It was a great run but the technology has moved on.
We've decided that there are not enough low-cost but simple and reliable high voltage supplies available for the home radiation hobbyist. This is the Zeus regulated low-current high voltage supply. We are providing this as a kit ($30) or fully assembled ($40). We consider the project to be completely open source in the hopes that the end product will be either improved overall or at least tweaked to perfection for any individual's need. The rest of the information and details on the Zeus can be found by clicking the link at the top of the page or right here.
We are also always available for writing custom applications for any platform, from PCs to microcontrollers. It can cost a lot less than you think so don’t hesitate to ask.
If you have comments or questions about our products or services, or simply need more information and want to communicate with us, click on the “Contact” button along the top of the page.
Thanks for visiting!
We have worked on projects from low budget to expensive, from high-end ladies handbags to hidden and discreet radiation monitors. These "motes" babysit large industrial radiation sources and provide notification via satellite should one go missing. (Big challenges included getting them certified for ship deck use, and the fact they had to transmit the current radiation rates (wirelessly) through a repeater to a satellite on a continuous basis using only three "AA" batteries as the power source--batteries needed to be changed less frequently than once per year. Oh, and they weren't allowed to look like a radiation detector or a transmitter, just a plain drab box.) We've also completed a high-gain antenna for our local high school football team so they could use their existing wireless microphone to sing the National Anthem from the middle of the field. A four-element half-wave colinear antenna took about an hour to design an build using extra parts kicking around in the lab. It looks good mounted on the side of the press box and has extended the range to where it was needed. We've also repaired and rewired their scoreboard's RS-422 connection and did some board-level repairs to make all the scoreboard's elements work correctly. (And no, we did not charge them a thing; go Bobcats!)
We put software and components here that don’t quite fit in with our normal day jobs. It still going to tend towards the nerdy side however. Most of our products and applications were developed first for our own use and we hope they might be useful for others as well.
With the economy more or less tanking at the moment Brainyware, never a very large business (and we all have day jobs), has not been doing a lot since the PalmOS died. Our premier product was the CASL programming language and environment where a single code base could be compiled for the PalmOS, WindowsCE/Windows Mobile, and Windows PC devices. It was a great run but the technology has moved on.
We've decided that there are not enough low-cost but simple and reliable high voltage supplies available for the home radiation hobbyist. This is the Zeus regulated low-current high voltage supply. We are providing this as a kit ($30) or fully assembled ($40). We consider the project to be completely open source in the hopes that the end product will be either improved overall or at least tweaked to perfection for any individual's need. The rest of the information and details on the Zeus can be found by clicking the link at the top of the page or right here.
We are also always available for writing custom applications for any platform, from PCs to microcontrollers. It can cost a lot less than you think so don’t hesitate to ask.
If you have comments or questions about our products or services, or simply need more information and want to communicate with us, click on the “Contact” button along the top of the page.
Thanks for visiting!