Re: [time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-13 Thread Don Latham
Marvelous. Is there any reason not to adapt this to an Arduino with a network shield? Don Joseph Gray I thought everyone here would find this of interest. I stumbled across it a few days ago on the 'net. It is a Prologix GPIB-USB compatible made with an Arduino Uno.

Re: [time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-13 Thread Jim Lux
On 1/12/15 1:00 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: Yes, you can get an Arduino R3 on eBay for $4 with shipping... The GPIB connector will cost you more! Didier KO4BB A sandwich of two PCB is about the same thickness as the center plug of a GPIB male connector. So layout 2x12 pads to match the pins and

Re: [time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-12 Thread Didier Juges
Yes, you can get an Arduino R3 on eBay for $4 with shipping... The GPIB connector will cost you more! Didier KO4BB On January 12, 2015 8:45:12 AM CST, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: That certainly is a hack. But its something I have often thought about and never did. He is right its

Re: [time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-12 Thread Tom Van Baak
Yes, you can get an Arduino R3 on eBay for $4 with shipping... The GPIB connector will cost you more! Didier KO4BB A sandwich of two PCB is about the same thickness as the center plug of a GPIB male connector. So layout 2x12 pads to match the pins and you have a one-piece Arduino and

Re: [time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-12 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:45 AM, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: its really a one instrument interface as it doesn't have the buffers to drive the load of multiple instruments. But heavens that has to be a really cheap interface for a bit of soldering effort. My type of effort. :-)

Re: [time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-12 Thread paul swed
That certainly is a hack. But its something I have often thought about and never did. He is right its really a one instrument interface as it doesn't have the buffers to drive the load of multiple instruments. But heavens that has to be a really cheap interface for a bit of soldering effort. My

[time-nuts] Arduino GPIB

2015-01-11 Thread Joseph Gray
I thought everyone here would find this of interest. I stumbled across it a few days ago on the 'net. It is a Prologix GPIB-USB compatible made with an Arduino Uno. http://egirland.blogspot.com/2014/03/arduino-uno-as-usb-to-gpib-controller.html Like on his web site, I just took a cheap GPIB