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New version of Electronic Tour Guide for mini-vehicles equipped with a screen and multi-casting Bluetooth

We’re pleased to announced the new version of Electronic Tour Guide for touristic mini-vehicles with the multiple Bluetooth audio headphones pairing option.

Electornic Tour Guide for touristic mini-vehicles equipped with a screen and multi-casting Bluetooth

This version of device was created especially for small electric cars and twin bikes. That has 7″ color screen to show your the current position of vehicle, recommended tracks, attraction markers and previously saved locations for simple navigation. The button’s interface providing all features available in wearable version of Electronic Tour Guide + couple of additional, like map zooming and Bluetooth pairing.

Posted at 12pm, September 23, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: News | read on

Guess what is it?

This is a fresh new delicious 0.09 mH RFID coils. Get ready for the recipe!

Delicious 0.09 mH coils for RFID enabled Electronic Tour Guides

Ingredients:

● heat shrinkage 100mm
● magnet copper wire 32 gauge

1. cut heat shrinkage tubule
2. glue it with the piquant drop of cyanoacrylate
3. make 40 turns of the wire around

The dish is ready! 0.09 mH nice 30mm coil RFID antenna. Serve chilled. M-m-m YUMMY !!!

Posted at 10am, August 12, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: Kitchen | read on

How GPS works

Find out how GPS works, some of the roles things such as our own atmosphere has in reducing the accuracy of GPS and also how general relativity effects GPS accuracy too.

Taken from excelent sciBRIGHT Youtube channel.

Posted at 7am, June 8, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: Stories | read on

Updated version of Electronic Tour Guide coming to Riga

Old Riga in all its glory greeted us with a sunny but not very warm day. Nevertheless, we managed to walk around town, listen to fascinating stories with freshly updated software, and before had a cup of coffee and even invented a couple of great ideas for the development of the whole venture.

New version of Electronic Tour Guide in Riga
Dmitrijs Bļizņuks testing the new version of firmware in Riga.

Posted at 4pm, April 9, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: Partners | read on

…at the stage of turning into a Prince

Electronic Tour Guide Screen Map version
Stay tuned!

Posted at 6pm, March 22, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: Devices | read on

Creaky’s “Advice of the best chefs”

There is nothing better than fresh fiberglass epoxy mixed with a couple of silicon ICs and a pinch of solder. M… yummy!
Write down the recipe!!!

Electronic Tour Guide, PCB ultrasonic bath cleaning
Additional PCBs cleaning for our secret Berlin project. Coming sooooon!

you will need:
1. Several circuit boards soldered
2. Isopropyl alcohol
3. Window cleaner a la Mr.Muscle (hush!…This line generously paid)
4. Distilled water

Mix it everything and leave for 5 minutes in ultrasonic cleaner.

Enjoy :)

Posted at 12pm, March 2, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: Kitchen | read on

x-posting malfunction

Today Creaky (our smart robot, if you don’t remember him) found accidentally that something wrong with the social network x-publisher that sending all our news ans announcements to the social networks around. All previously saved posts are gone (or even wasn’t punished by some technical reason, probably). So…. time to fix it, says Creaky. Another sleepless night is coming… Which is fine for robots.

Electronic Tour Guide Blog X-posting malfunction detected. Creaky trying to fix it right now

Posted at 7am, January 27, 2016 | no comments; | Filed Under: Server | read on

The Great Firmware Update

Electronic Tour Guide, the GPS City audio companion, Great Firmware Update

Bleep-bloop dear friends. Creaky on the Air! I’m glad to introduce you our new firmware that we have been polishing and debugging in the last six month. There are a lot of changes. Most significant of them:

  1. Algorithm of directional prompts improvement
  2. Smart narrative focal level shifting
  3. Improvement of narrative branching algorithm and content structuring
  4. RFID implementation out of the box
  5. Cross-branching conflicts resolution
  6. Removing number of annoying bugs as well

Welcome to Prague and other cities of our partners (the common map in progress, yeap). Be ready for new unforgettable experience!

Posted at 7am, December 15, 2015 | no comments; | Filed Under: Devices | read on

Fake voltage regulators

I’ve heard before about the fake ICs but never seen it in real life. Here is a first of them was captured accidentally in our new butch. The real magic that not all of them are bad. I was found one during the routine test, which is really noisy. But after that the more detailed analysis showed that there is just about 10% of them are problematic. Though, I didn’t check the voltage drop yet and thinking it would be better to resolder all of them for originals, to make sure that everything will be fine during regular operation.

Fake voltage regulators
Real one on the right. Be careful!

Posted at 8am, October 12, 2015 | no comments; | Filed Under: Devices | read on

ETG coming to Spain, Guadalest partners starting the service

We are glad to announce that our partners in Guadalets (Spain) start to provide the service with our devices today. All devices are equipped with RFID reader that make possible to enjoy stories inside the Orduña House Museum as well as outside during the walk around this tiny and beautiful city — the hidden pearl in the heart of Spain.

Electronic tour Guide, the GPS City audio companion, coming to Spain, Guadalest partners starting the service
FedEx introduced new rules for the transport of LiPo batteries. So I had to go and bring the whole butch of devices to Paris, where we have an agreement for a meeting. The moment of the solemn transfer of the batch of ETG devices to our happy client. Gare du Nord, Paris.

Posted at 8am, September 19, 2015 | no comments; | Filed Under: Partners | read on

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