[time-nuts] Lady Heather without a PC

[Chris Albertson]

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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