Warnings and Precautions

The CUWIN is a line of Windows CE and Windows Embedded Compact industrial touchscreen panel PCs targeting graphical touchscreen user interfaces and HMI solutions.

The CUWIN's front panel features an 800×480 color touch screen capable of receiving input from a human operator, by touching the screen, and displaying colorful information.

The CUWIN's rear and side panels feature several interfaces (RS232/485, USB, Ethernet, Audio, SD Card) for communicating with many different electronic devices.

The CUWIN translates input from a human operator to signals that electronic devices can understand, and receives signals from those electronic devices, translating them to colorful output that the operator can understand. Thus, the CUWIN serves as a Human Machine Interface(HMI).

By interfacing the CUWIN with the CUBLOC, MOACON, or other Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), the CUWIN can provide a human interface to electronic and mechanical systems such as robots, monitoring systems, environment control systems, and automation equipment just to name a few. The CUWIN has been used in all kinds of applications from solar energy systems that track the sun to beauty appliances for styling hair.

Important: When installing the SDK, please choose Custom and remove the Documentation feature, or the SDK will not install correctly.

• Setting the CUWIN's Operating Mode (Dip S/W setting)
• Powering on the CUWIN for the First Time

• Connecting to a Host PC (Windows XP)
• Connecting to a Host PC (Windows 7/8/10)
• Setting the CUWIN’s Ethernet MAC Address

CUWIN OS image

Microsoft did not release the Smart Device Programmability tools for any Visual Studio release beyond Visual Studio 2008, so Visual Studio 2008 is the latest version of Visual Studio that can be used to program Windows CE 6.0 devices like the CUWIN.

• Installing Visual Studio 2008
• Installing the CUWIN Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Creating a CUWIN Program

• Using RS-485
• Writing to the CUWIN's Serial Port
• Reading from the CUWIN's Serial Port
• Creating a CUWIN Modbus RTU Master with NModbus

• Starting the Windows Explorer Shell
• Opening a Control Panel Applet
• Adding Custom Fonts

• jControls CF35 - A free UI control library that overcomes many limitations of Windows CE and the .Net Compact Framework providing anti-aliasing, alpha blending, gradient fills, and more.
• BeeMobile iPack - A commercial .Net Compact Framework UI control library.
• NModbus - A free and open source Modbus communication library for the .Net Compact Framework (See Tutorial)

• Mouting Screws and Brackets
• Panel Cutout

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