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March 22, 2021

AHK and formatting text & SQLite for storing reports

By Max Drake Automation  0 Comments
I love AHK but its output is a bit grim and 70’s as far as presentation goes. You just get raw text, so good for code editing but as final product pretty plain. It would be nice to be able to format the text so that at least you can highlight specific information with bold,
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March 18, 2021

Surface Book, Win 10 updates , Graphics Processor & Revit

By Max Drake BIM, Revit  0 Comments
I dread windows updates and as soon as they have taken place I open Revit to see if that is still working. I think the updates knock Revit off the list for using the Graphic Processor. This is the first time I’ve been able to get Revit get back to normal without uninstalling the windows
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March 17, 2021

AHK and FTP to server & a more adaptable inventory scanning process

By Max Drake Automation, Productivity, Server  0 Comments
From my generated inventory (using handheld barcode scanner) I have a file with my current status of what is in my freezer. This file sits on the tablet where the barcode reader sens the data. That is all well and fine, but I do not have it running all the time, so when I (1)
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March 14, 2021

AHK scheduled inventory report & email report

By Max Drake Automation, Productivity  0 Comments
I wrote and article AHK Barcode and freezer Inventory to monitor my Freezer inventory. The idea was to test out an inventory structure and play with a handheld barcode reader. I did a video on it here: After creating the AHK script for that and testing it out, I then wanted to progress the idea
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March 7, 2021

NFC (Near field communication) with new Android phone

By Max Drake Automation, Data Analysis, Productivity  0 Comments
My Howya died recently, may it RIP, I had it for 3 years and definitely value for money. I upgraded to an Oppo phone, one of the criteria was that the new phone had NFC (Near field communication) so that I could play with tags. I’d bought, on Ali Express a NFC card read/writer that
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March 6, 2021

Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10 free

By Max Drake Automation, Productivity  0 Comments
I saw this article “Microsoft’s “Power Automate Desktop” Is Now Free and Can Do Your Work for You” that had a link to “Automate tasks with Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10—no additional cost” and if someone is offering free automation tools tthen I’m up for trying them out. You can download it here. This
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February 27, 2021

AHK Barcode & Freezer Inventory

By Max Drake Automation, Barcode Scanner, Productivity  0 Comments
After plant watering/recording app, which I use daily I wanted to move onto the Freezer Inventory. I have modified the Plant watering app for my beer brew recording, that is mainly typing in rather than barcode reading, but I inputted all the data pretty quickly, so now have a structured file with the data in
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February 13, 2021

AHK’s how to remember all your commands and scripts? AHKCommandPicker

By Max Drake Automation, Productivity  0 Comments
I’ve had a few AHK hotkeys that I’ve used for ages, and don’t have to think about remembering them, but now that I’ve been developing new scripts I’ve started having issues with remembering them. So I’ve been through a few processes. Pop-up Help MessageBox This was my first attempt at keepinmg a record, having a
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February 13, 2021

Handheld Barcode Scanner & Data Entry with AHK’s Part 3- Text to Speech for confirmation of input

By Max Drake Automation, Productivity  0 Comments
I used sound frequencies to indicate input to different fields of the form. I demonstrated that to my daughter and she commented that it would be handy if it could tell you what had been scanned. I mentioned the SoundPlay function instead of the SoundBeep function, suggesting you could make small .wav files to play
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February 7, 2021

Handheld Barcode Scanner & Data Entry with AHK’s Part 1

By Max Drake Automation, Barcode Scanner, Productivity  0 Comments
Initial code setup for plant monitoring here. There is a more updated script in the next article here. Timekeeping original code There is a really nifty script (by yevolcn on GitHub) that allows you to quickly add in time in a pop-up menu triggered by Alt+3 hotkey. It writes the information to a file and
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Max Drake

About

I am an architect, building services designer, structural draughter, educator & developer.

My current area of interest is in exploring  Asset & Facilities Management tools based on capturing information at Design/Construction phase for use throughout the life of the building. Tools I am using are open-source or common programmes to allow maximum accessibility to the information both in geometric and data format.

This has dropped me into the world of programming HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, VBA, PHP & AJAX to name but a few distractions.

You can email me Here. My Blog is Here. Other Websites are Here , Here & Here

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