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Updates & Interesting Stuff
Here at Touché we like to share information about some of our projects and also other interesting information that we have learned or come across during our work. Sometimes this is about really useful tools or helpful hints.
Giving old equipment a face lift
There are many examples of industrial equipment that were designed may be 20 or 30 years ago that work perfectly well and do the job they were intended for efficiently but on which the user interface is very dated. In today’s world of smartphones and tablets most...
Low Power Card Detect – Friend or foe?
Historically if you were designing a contactless card reader then to detect cards you needed to poll periodically by turning the RF field on and sending out polling requests (REQA for ISO14443A for example). This is fine for USB or mains powered readers but for...
COLLABORATION LEADS TO SUCCESS FOR DYNAMIC NEW GAME
Nottingham based Near Field Solutions (now Touché Technology) are no strangers to facing obstacles in developing new products and services. The team are frequently challenged to design innovative solutions and are known as leaders in Near Field Communication (NFC),...
Bluetooth protocol testing
Most Bluetooth controllers have mature software stacks integrated which takes care of all the Bluetooth communications meaning that the application you are developing is relatively isolated from the data that actually gets transferred over the air and so you never...
DropMix – pushing the boundries of Bluetooth Low Energy
DropMix is a dynamic, fast-paced music-mixing game that allows players to blend popular songs from award-winning artists to create amazing mixes. The DropMix Music Gaming System includes the DropMix game board and 60 DropMix song cards. Each card activates a part of a...
Bluetooth Smart Mesh Network – The next step for the Internet of Things
A couple of years ago I sat at a conference listening to Robin Heydon of CSR explaining in his typical energetic ways how Bluetooth Smart differs from Bluetooth Classic. If you listened carefully enough you could hear the cogs in the brains of fellow engineers that...
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