Add-Ons.


Question: What is an Add-On?

Answer: Add-Ons allow you to receive applications you usually only get in a specialized stand-alone-gadget. Add-Ons are especially designed for Milestone 312 and follow its design. You just plug an Add-On on the front end of Milestone and start using the new application. An example of such an Add-On is Fame, the optical color reader for Milestone 312.


Question: Where comes the name Fame from?

Answer: Fame comes from the German term for color reader, which is FArbMEssgerät.


Question: What are the differences between Fame and other color readers?

Answer: Fame is a plug-on attachment for Milestone 312, so no other color-reading device needs to be purchased. Besides the detection of 400 different colors and nuances, Fame has an integrated light finder as well as a structure reading function.


Question: Where comes the name Woodscan from?

Answer: The name Woodscan is a tribute to the inventor of the barcode, Sir Norman Joseph Woodland.


Question: What are barcodes and how does Woodscan work?

Answer: Barcode is the name for an optoelectronic readable script, which consists of different parallel bars and gaps. The term code does not mean encoded, but illustration of data with binary symbols. The data of the barcodes can be read automatically with optical readers, for example our barcode scanner Woodscan and are processed electronically afterwards.
Barcode readers belong to data acquisition devices. There are different kinds of readers, such as laser scanners like Woodscan: One or several laser beams are directed to the barcode and will reflect differently according to the color and will be decoded afterwards.


Question: Do I need to update the barcode database of my Milestone 312?

Answer: To be always up to date on the current products, Bones updates periodically the databases. To profit as well from the novelties in the databases, you may update Woodscan once in a while.


Question: How can I update the barcode database of my Milestone 312?

Answer: Please download the database of your country from the support area on www.bones.ch. After the download, unzip the file and copy it then into the root directory of a SD card. Then insert the card into your switched-on Milestone 312 and the database for Woodscan will be automatically updated.