On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect > > > data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the > > > data to some location every so often. > > > > > > Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an > > > online "station") that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port > > > is the interface of choice here. > > > > > > The second part is for a web site to fetch the data and convert it into > > > some type of display suitable for a web page. It would be nice to have > > > something graphic (even if it is static data -- could use some animated > > > image to give the effect of the wind speed fluctuating, I suppose ;) > > > > > > Any ideas? > > I recall from pop electronics or maybe the back of Linux (world,format...) > > some ruggedized simple data logging devices (temp, Hg, vibration) with > > serial intefaces that run on batteries? > > I just did a google: Bingo! > > www.picotech.com > > Do they support Linux now? Their ads look like they're still M$-only. <snip> Hi, I was googing on 'picotech linux' and thougth I saw something but now that I looked again, I saw they were advertising only 'linux drivers for their products for free (for red hat 5.2 and 6.0). Oh well. Maybe someone can get them to open source it. -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
