[time-nuts] Thunderbolt Monitor

[Chris Albertson]

Look into the TI Lauchpad.  It is about the same idea as Arduino but
they start at $4.30 (shipped) and the larger ARM based one is still
under $18.   I'm sure TI loses money on each one they sell

Those little 2x16 LCD displays are easy to use but you can make them
much nicer by adding a rotary shaft encoder to make it work like a
"scroll knob".  It is a very intuitive control for a user and easy to
program. Then you can have things like satelite info and so on, untill
your controller runs out of RAM

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Major L. McGee III <majorm at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> John and Ken that did the trick.  I ended up trying the easiest option first
> since I already had device manager up and it worked like a charm.
>
> I'll look into Arduino for some options for the lcd project.  I keep my
> Thunderbolt right beside my frequency counter and leave both of them on all
> the time attached to a good UPS.  The counter has a Rubidium oscillator in
> it but I use the output from the thunderbolt at times as well.  My master
> plan is to build a box for the rack with a low phase noise multi channel
> distribution amplifier to feed to my other equipment with the 10MHz signal.
>
> How my racks are setup the LCD should give me all the info I need in most
> cases.  Sometimes the lady heather software is just too much info.  I do
> like the satellite tracking though.  That is a cool feature.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Major
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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California