Thanks for your note. Well, you can buy "front end" DMM chips that just do the measuring with no built in display, but some serial I/O to a processor/display/keyboard combo. That's my route.
Not settled on the processor, yet. I also play with Raspberry Pis, and while I might use one for early software development, I have ruled them out for a place in the final product for a couple of reasons. The most annoying aspect of my otherwise nice Fluke 289 DMM is the ~10 second boot time. I want that voltage reading, NOW! Pi's boot in around 30 seconds, and even though the application is for a bench meter, I would find that start-up delay frustrating. Also, as others have found, Pi's do not take kindly to just being switched off, without a proper power-down. I need something more reliable and able to withstand "mild" abuse that that. On Friday, 7 October 2016 20:56:45 UTC+1, gregebert wrote: > > Yeah, that's a project I've thought about, but my conclusion was that the > DMM chips were all intended for direct-drive LCD, or perhaps LED. I get > stuck in an endless loop of trying to justify building something really > interesting that wont get used very much vs adding features that would be > unique (measure milliohms, inductance, kilovolts, and true-RMS milliwatts). > Guess what...I get nowhere. > > A Raspberry Pi would likely be the best platform, as there is all sorts of > software out there to enable it to run as a networked device. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/7bee337a-b53b-48f5-88d9-2267eb9127eb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
