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Author: David Thomson– Managing Director at Blue Chip Technology 1. Introducing BetaWeb. There’s no two ways about it, developing high quality products is difficult. Today a large number of products not only require unique knowledge of the target industry but also complex embedded electronics and software to achieve the required specification and expectations for high […]

Author: Chris Richardson – Embedded Software Engineer at Blue Chip Technology 1. Introduction  BalenaOS is a custom Linux distribution built using Yocto, which helps minimise its size. It provides IoT estate management through an easy to configure and use cloud interface.  Our TM3 and DB1 boards currently support BalenaOS.   It uses dual rootfs partitions […]

Author: Marek Olejnik– Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Blue Chip Technology 1. Introduction. Electronic systems for industrial applications often need a human interaction. The user interface was historically implemented on a physical control panel comprised of buttons knobs and indicators. Modern systems can use virtual user interface presented on a touch enabled LCD screen where […]

Author: Marek Olejnik– Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Blue Chip Technology 1) Introduction In Part 1 of this blog I developed a wrapper to enable rapid integration of Arduino libraries and examples with Android to run on a BCT Beta HMI. In Part 2 we look at progressing the simple Arduino example ino into a […]

1) Introduction In the hobby maker electronic community there are a plethora of sensor IC’s and modules available online to buy at affordable prices. The source code for these sensors is often released on public sites targeting Arduino development boards which makes it really simple to get the get the base of your next product […]

Following our enforced hibernation, we will be exhibiting again at this year’s Engineering Design Show.  At Blue Chip Technology we specialise in design and manufacture of embedded electronics systems; Hardware, Firmware and Applications. Our typical customer will usually have a proof of concept and will work with Blue Chip to engineer what is often a […]

MLX90640 thermal camera demo with the Blue Chip Technology Beta HMI & Android platform Author: Dave Robinson – Lead embedded engineer at Blue Chip Technology   Many prototypes that I come across use sensors that implement a GROVE connector, and I am often asked, “Can I attach GROVE sensors to your Beta HMI?”, “Can you […]

After careful consideration, Blue Chip Technology has moved the RE1 single board computer into its End of Life (EOL) phase. The production timeline of the RE1 is as follows: 30 March 2018 – order forecasts required from customers. 30 June 2018 – the last date for customers to place orders. 30 October 2018 – the last date […]

Blue Chip Technology have successfully achieved certification of the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management standard after being assessed by the BSI and meeting the necessary requirements detailed within. The ISO 9001 standard is designed to help businesses consistently improve the quality of their services and products and to ensure customer’s requirements are being met. This gives […]

Availability Please note that our business will be closed over the Christmas period. Details of our office hours are as follows: Friday 22nd December – OPEN until 12:00pm Monday 25th December – CLOSED Tuesday 26th December – CLOSED Wednesday 27th December – CLOSED Thursday 28th December – CLOSED Friday 29th December – CLOSED Monday 1st […]