[time-nuts] Lady Heather without a PC

Didier shalimr9 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 03:23:00 UTC 2013


I do have a desktop IPAQ. It runs Windows Embedded on ARM (at least, this one does)

Didfier

Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
>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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>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Chris Albertson
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