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eftpos

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#233591 23-Apr-2018 14:15

I am looking for a freelancer who could take on a small proof-of-concept project ('spare-time job'). Local to Palmerston North/Manawatu would be great but not essential.

Would require experience in Python.

High level overview of the project:

Design an application which presents a 2 x 2 Button Matrix, populated with 'Pre-Set' Actions.

The application would have an "Information area" above the button matrix

Upon the user 'touching' the Button of choice, send a command via USB/Serial or IP to an API-Spec that controls an external device

Device to be used is a Raspberry Pi with 7" Touchscreen

For the moment doesnt need to be "pretty"; just need to see if it can be done.

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#2001204 23-Apr-2018 16:07

Not interested myself (unless you've got a lot of money to spend on this ), but it seems pretty straightforward to me. The whole thing could be done as a web page without any programming per se.

"Sending a command" needs to have some kind of specification as to what a command is and what parameters are passed and what protocol to use for communicating, but if you're looking at turning on/off a light or whatever that could be done via a web service.

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#2001206 23-Apr-2018 16:14

Fair enough. Its generally targeted at charities so its not a "money-maker" but rather a way to help out with digital transformation and being different.

The commands need to be sent to a "Payment Device" over Serial/USB or IP (well those are the ones we can use). We have another solution for a different product and we had to enable "allow insecure content" within Chrome to send the commands we needed to send; was trying to avoid that potential limitation. However I do product and not code so more than happy to be corrected if theres another way to achieve the same outcome.

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#2001572 24-Apr-2018 12:54

A Raspberry Pi collection dish for a church?