Super! Keep us all updated. -Kyle. == Kyle Williamson Solent Educational Solent House, Roman Road, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 4RQ Tel: (023) 80 843189 Fax: (023) 80 848715 "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." -----Original Message----- From: Richard Rothwell [mailto:raroth42@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: 15 May 2003 11:57 To: Suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Datalogging --- s-clarob@st-aidans.cumbria.sch.uk wrote:
Surely for the price of an 8bit A-D and a few other simple components it would be much easier to use the parallel port to sample the data.
Rob
The concept is that a class can produce the sensors in their DT lessons and then do the sensing with kit they have manufactured themselves. Some pupils could look at the code of the logger, etc. I am also looking at a more accurate system using the games controller and a chip - rather like this... http://www.cesko.host.sk/GamePortTemp_eng.htm ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU and Wine are rirds. Rird is recursively defined. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com