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		<title>Hardware product development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog also posted at our company website. There has been series of delays in our product release, we thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know what is happening and how our journey has been so far. We are really close to the finish. When we first believed in the Track Every [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blog also posted at our <a href="http://blog.ionlab.in/2009/10/hardware-product-development/">company website</a>.</p>
<p>There has been series of delays in our product release, we thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know what is happening and how our journey has been so far. We are really close to the finish.</p>
<p>When we first believed in the <a href="http://www.trackeverycoin.com">Track Every Coin</a> idea, we started prototyping it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 2px solid orange;" title="First prototype" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2492/3974312756_8117a857c9.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="354" /></p>
<p>We bought some ready-made, off the shelf LCD displays. These displays were just numeric displays, so one had to select the category from the list given. Never the less we were able to enter the expenditure and categorize it too. The system would talk to a computer through USB and transfer all the data successfully. And yes… the product was HUGE! <img src='http://www.chadaga.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>After this we decided to work on the LCD part a little more.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 2px solid orange;" title="New LCD - alphanumeric" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2614/3973547025_e106cd6e7e.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="354" /></p>
<p>We got rid of the numeric display and got an LCD which can display numbers and text at the same time. This gave us options for many more features like someone owes you, you share a trip with a friend, track reimbursements, etc.</p>
<p>After this we further worked on the size of the PCB and finally reached a small size of the PCB.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 2px solid orange;" title="Final PCB with plastic prototype" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3974318980_c0bb426f33.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="354" /></p>
<p>We got our first plastic prototyped and now working on reducing the form factor and making it smaller and sleeker. After that we have to think of some colors and some cool graphics on it.</p>
<p>Here is the rough size of the device with two buttons on top. The final size will go down further.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 2px solid orange;" title="Track every coin size... final size will reduce." src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2478/3973550111_9485073142.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="354" /></p>
<p>The experience has been great so far and all of us are really excited to bring this product our for everyone to use. We are hoping the product will help everyone to get financially organized and &#8220;<strong><a href="http://www.trackeverycoin.com">Track Every Coin</a></strong>&#8220;.</p>
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