[Dev] Introducing featherPay - Point of Sales Device

kris_davison

I remember getting a tiny preview at the one year birthday meet up. Looks great muddy well done. :)

uncle_muddy

Cheers for the comments guys :) glad you like the work thats going on.

Production, is a possibility but very costly to get the case mouldings made up. I’m lucky enough to have an office and work shop full of very cool toys and tools so the casing is currently printed on a 3D printer whilst I’m doing the prototype. Once it’s all done and dusted I might approach a local company and see what they can make the moulds for but last time I looked into some thing like this we where talking the heavy side of 10k GBP

I have a couple of little niggles to still iron out of the code but hope to get some time on that over the next couple of weeks, and there are a few more little bits of functionality that I want to add around transaction logging and setup

I’m going to try and get into a battery company next week to get a battery pack that can be installed hopefully giving it about 6 - 8 hours of run time between charges as at the moment it needs to be connected for it to function

Your thoughts, comments and suggests as always are welcome

UM

xonar

uncle_muddy + 1

Near Field?

and also +1

MrWyrm

Yes yes yes! This is exactly what we need! I’ve been unable to suggest businesses take on FTC because of the payment processes. Super excited!

wrapper

Point of Sales device “Featherpay” - I like this very much, well done.

wrapper

Re: Featherpay : Point of Sale device POS & software system. - I’ve added [Dev] to the title and have pinned this important project.

Good idea.

SkullandHeadphones

Great job!

uncle_muddy

Near Field?

and also +1

I have no experience of NF integration, but I am more than happy to start looking into it once I have the current version working as It should. But will openly admit that at this time it is not something that is high on the priority list as most devices with NF built in also have a camera that can be used for scanning QR Codes to complete the transactions.

I have managed to get another dev involved with the work that is needed to complete this project and get it moving again after a small stall due to work commitments, I will be shipping development hardware over to them within the next week so hope that can give it another kick start.

Bushstar

This is some truly great work muddy, I think that these will be in high demand everywhere. You may be starting something big here :)

uncle_muddy

Unfortunately I have not managed to get much done on this over the last week due to other commitments :(

But I have managed to send a set of hardware out to my other dev, and get another set of hardware ordered in :) I have also managed to do a complete code build from the ground up to prove that I have everything in order there :)

There are still two little but fundamental bugs out standing that I’m hoping to get some time on next week to try and resolve.

Someone asked if this could be used by other coins? The simple answer is yes! there is no reason why this complete setup can’t be used with any coin that has a similar wallet setup to feathercoind as fundamentally that is all that is running in the background to deal with transactions, they will also require a similar setup to api.feathercoin.com as this is used to gain the current price and the number of confirms reported by the blockchain for a payment address.

I’ll keep plugging away at it and update you with progress, but dev time is going to be limited over the next couple of weeks due to other commitments and needing to pay some bills.

UM

Someone asked if this could be used by other coins? The simple answer is yes! there is no reason why this complete setup can’t be used with any coin that has a similar wallet setup to feathercoind…

This is, what I believe, to be ftc’s greatest asset. I think it is one of the things that’s truly setting us aside from 99% of the other coins.

Feathercoin.
The open source community, for the open source individual… (or something like that:)

Flobdeth

Question: Do they manually have to check FTC price, or is all the info coming straight into the device?

Worth maybe sharing ideas with Franko? they are working on a (coin changeable) ATM, just a thought :-X

uncle_muddy

Price is retrieved real time from api.feathercoin.com at the start of every transaction.

Who are Franco?

Just had a pile more hardware turn up so hopefully can run a couple of devices side by side from next week to see how the bug fixes are going.

UM

uncle_muddy

fyrputt,

I need to do the maths to find a total cost, also need to weigh the casing so I can work out how much plastic goes into it from the printer.

Assembly takes about 2 hours start to finish once all the bits are gathered together, as for testing I’ll work out a test script for each device once I have got the bugs out, but I should think something like a couple of transaction tests, an over night soak test of the hardware, complete charge/discharge of the battery etc should do it.

I like the sound of the idea for a complete package for the merchant, we have a couple of tame merchants in Oxford (pub, sandwich shop) that I intended to give these devices too, and then work from there once I had a bit of feed back on them.

Who are Franco?

http://frankos.org/

uncle_muddy

Have had a meeting today with the battery company they have now been set the challenge of going out to find a battery that will give 8 - 10 hours of life and sit inside the device… Will keep you updated of progress

ChekaZ

Have had a meeting today with the battery company they have now been set the challenge of going out to find a battery that will give 8 - 10 hours of life and sit inside the device… Will keep you updated of progress

Great!

sweet cheers man!