[time-nuts] Lady Heather without a PC

[Bob Camp]

Hi

There are two products called IPAQ. One was a desktop computer, the other was a PDA. The desktop will run anything, the PDA can handle some of the BSD's and Linux's. Both need to be configured  / compiled to match the device. 

Bob

On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> What OS runs on the IPAQ?
> 
> Did you have to re-build LH from source?
> 
> Edit:  OK now I see you are running some other software called
> "thunderhead".   Same questions apply
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> I've posted this before, but it's worth saying again. I use the PocketPC
>> version of Lady Heather on an IPAQ. These are available for next to nothing
>> on Ebay and can run in a dock on the bench or you can gut it and embed it
>> in a cased Thunderbolt. worn out batteries are not an issue as we have
>> constant power available. They just need 5V. One with an SD card slot is
>> good so you don't have to re-load the code from a PC if the power does go
>> out.
>> 
>> 
>> Robert G8RPI.
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com>
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <
>> time-nuts at febo.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 18:36
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] ThunderBolt Display
>> 
>> 
>> What was the problem you found.  Other then a "new to you" platform?  I'm
>> trying to understand why reading serial data would be hard.
>> 
>> An advantage of the Adruino is that you don't need to make a PCB.  Even if
>> you want to do something like add a graphical display or and SD card for
>> logging they just plug in, no solder required.
>> 
>> Of course the pre-buillt display is even easier but can't be modified.
>> 
>> One of my loner term goals is to move lady heather like functions onto a
>> small uP based device.  It seems wasteful to use a PC for this.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Russ Ramirez <russ.ramirez at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yeah, after trying to (reliably) get the time out of the pertinent TSIP
>>> message using an Arduino UNO, I can understand your statement Adam about
>>> the Arduino approach. It kinda works, but it felt like I was fighting the
>>> implementation of the controller card and that I should cut-over to my
>> own
>>> solution using an Atmel, PIC or TI chip that I could just load C code
>> into.
>>> One of this lists members gave me the code I needed, so ironically using
>>> the UNO made the project more difficult.
>>> 
>>> Russ
>>> K0WFS
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