Recently, Project54 was asked to create a demonstration of a Web Mapping Service (WMS) application for the Microsoft Surface. To maximize the usefulness of the demo, we were attempting to allow multiple WMS layers to be displayed at the same time. Doing this would allow the end user to find correlations between different sets of …
Category Archive: Project54
Oct
31
NEC-HFES 2010 Student Conference
Last Friday, 22nd October 2010, Dylan Fransway, Zeljko Medenica, Mark Taipan and I attended the New England Chapter of the Human Factors Ergonomics Society (NEC-HFES) 2010 Student conference in Cambridge, MA. The event took place at the first floor conference room of the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center. The conference featured 16 …
Oct
29
Wearable Cameras at IACP 2010
The past couple of IACP’s showed the rise of camera technology and video recording in the law-enforcement arena. This year’s trade-show was no different. Ross and I came across a variety of wearable cameras. CATLab staff and students have been developing a mobile application for the Dover Mounted Patrol Unit. One of the problems faced …
Oct
27
IACP 2010
Project54 staff members Dr. W. Thomas Miller III, Ross Lenharth, and Mark Taipan recently attended the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) 2010 Conference held at sunny Orlando, Florida. IACP 2010 showcased a variety of law-enforcement related technologies and equipment. Aside from the traditional in-car vehicle equipment such as light bars, radars and radios, …
Oct
20
Custom C# Image Button
Recently I was implementing an image button on a Windows Mobile 6.5 system. On the desktop you can simply extend the Button class and overload the OnPaint function to control the look and feel (for example adding custom image fields). However, in the Compact Framework version of .Net the Button control doesn’t actually draw itself …
Aug
05
UNH KEEPERS Camp
Recently, Devin, Carol, and I helped with the UNH KEEPERS Camp “Biomedical Engineering” Day. The children were able to have tours of Professor Wayne Smith’s lab, build simple parallel and series circuits, and create their own “Operation”-style board games. The picture below is of me and a student displaying his “Operation” game. It was great …
Aug
05
Keepers Summer Camp at Project54
Project54 assisted with two sections of KEEPERS summer camp. It turned out to be a great way for the second to fifth grade students to explore electrical and computer engineering. Mark gave tours to groups of the students of a Project54 lab and a police cruiser. While he did that, Erika, Devin and I helped the …
Aug
03
A Written Contact Card vs. the Project54 Mobile Software
One of the current projects in development here at CATLab is the Project54 mobile software for the Dover Police Mounted Patrol Unit. Combined with the Motorola Symbol MC5574, our Project54 mobile software allows the mounted officers to fill out their required contact cards quicker and more efficiently than writing the information on the card directly. …
Jul
22
UNH KEEPERS Camp visit to the Biomedical Engineering lab
Last week, undergraduates from the Project54 lab visited the KEEPERS camp. KEEPERS stands for Kids Eager for Engineering Program with Elementary Research-based Science. The purpose of the camp is to get young children interested in engineering. One of the tours that the camp went on was a trip to Professor Wayne Smith’s Biomedical Engineering lab, …
Jun
22
USB-Related Power-Up Issues with the Symbol DS6707 Scanner
Recently, users of Project54 have reported that the USB devices connected to their in-car computers at random would not power up correctly. Typically, a system reboot would solve the problem and power up the devices, but this situation is not ideal. The police officers using the Project54 application need all USB devices to …