Pico Technology

1.  New Automotive Demo CD

A new automotive demo CD is now available.
It contains the following items:

• A demo version of PicoScope automotive oscilloscope software
• Automotive articles and application notes from our website
• A library of automotive waveforms
• A short presentation of our award winning automotive diagnostics kit

To receive your free demo cd simply complete the online application form

2.  AAPEX Exhibition

Next week Pico will be exhibiting at the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo in Las Vegas.
We will also be collecting the Motor magazine award for our Automotive Diagnostics kit.

If you are attending the exhibition, please stop by at booth 5943.
More information is available from the exhibition web site at: http://www.aapexshow.com

3.  PicoScope Logo Competition

We had an amazing response to our competition to design a new PicoScope logo.

The winner was C. Douciu, from Romania who receives an ADC-212/50 PC Oscilloscope.
A new logo based on his design will soon be appearing in our software and on our products.

The number and quality of entries was far higher than we expected. Thank you to all those of you who entered.

4.  Technical Tip — Saving Waveforms as JPEGs

PicoScope (oscilloscope) and PicoLog (data logger) waveforms can easily be saved in JPEG (.jpg) graphics file format.

Each converter on the network must have an unique address. When building large systems you may find multiple converters with the same address. The addresses have to be unique thus the configuration will not complete successfully if units are trying to share a common address.

To save a trace as a JPEG file:

File | Save as |

In the dropdown box labelled 'Save file as type' select the jpg extension. Now enter the name of the file in the 'File Name' box, not forgetting to include the .jpg extension and removing the asterisk (*). Finally click OK or select the directory where the file is to be saved to and then click OK.

A list of previous newsletter "technical tips" can be found on the technical tips page.

5.  New Science Experiment

The Pico Technology Library of Experiments contains a number of educational experiments that make use of our oscilloscope and data logging products.

If you are involved in the teaching of science we would love to hear from you. We are looking for people willing to perform and write up new experiments for our collection. For a limited time Pico Technology is willing to donate either a DrDAQ data logger or an ADC-40 PC oscilloscope in return for a suitable experiment. See the experiment guidelines for further information.

This months new data logging experiment is designed to observe changes in the atmospheric charge as a result of natural and man-made events such as rain, thunderstorms and exhaust smoke.

See this and over seventy other interesting and educational science experiments online.

6.  Exhibitions and Training Dates

We have started compiling a list of exhibitions, seminars and training days which will feature our products. This will be expanded in the coming months as we add in information supplied by our distributors.

29th October - 2nd November 2003
Industry 2003 - Athens, Greece
Pico will be represent on Advantech Stand (601)

4th - 7th November 2003
AAPEX (Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo) - Las Vegas, USA
Pico will be exhibiting in Booth 5943

14th - 17th November 2003
Electronika 2003 - Athens, Greece
Pico will be represented on the Advantech Stand (A-51)

15th November 2003
The Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society
Pico will be represented on the YES (Young-il Education System Co.,Ltd) stand.

22nd November 2003
The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences
Pico will be represented on the YES (Young-il Education System Co.,Ltd) stand.

7th - 10th January 2004
BETT 2004 - Olympia, London, UK (educational exhibition)
Pico will be exhibiting on stand V33

4th - 5th February 2004
Automotive Training Course - Leeds, UK - more details >>

11th - 12th February 2004
MTEC - NEC, Birmingham, UK
Pico will be exhibiting on stand D123

11th - 12th February 2004
MechanEx - Donington Park, UK
Pico will be exhibiting on stand A4

23rd - 25th March 2004
Automotive Trade Show - NEC, Birmingham, UK

14th - 15th April 2004
Automotive Training Course - Leeds, UK

7.  Employment Opportunities

We currently have a vacancy for a Production Support Engineer

8.  French and German Translators Required

We are currently looking for translators to help with English/French and English/German translation work. An immediate requirement is a project to translate around one hundred A4 pages into French.

Ideally, we are looking to recruit a small group of home based technical translators who are able to work for us on an ad-hoc basis. Alternatively, from time to time we have opportunities for French / German students to work at our offices during vacations.

Some of the translation work is automotive related, so experience in this field would be an advantage.

If this sounds of interest, please e-mail marketing@picotech.com for more information.

9.  Latest Software Releases

As soon as we release new software, it is made available for FREE download from our web site. To check which version you are using, start the software (PicoScope, PicoLog or EnviroMon) and select HELP | ABOUT.

The current releases are:

• PicoScope R5.09-6
• PicoLog R5.09-6
• EnviroMon R5.09-6
• Drivers R5.09-6

To download the latest software please visit the software downloads page

(Note : the above web page also contains a link to our 'what's new' page which describes recent changes and additions to the software).

10.  Back Issues of this Newsletter

Back issues of this newsletter are available online at http://www.picotech.com/maillist.html

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