Re: Linux data acquisition GUI


Garrick wrote:
> "linnix" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1135904132.931091.86490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ray wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:15:51 -0800, Garrick wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a small company that makes data acquisition hardware. The first
> > > > product communicates using RS-232 serial and is text based in both
> > > > programming setup and data retrieval. The only software needed is a
> serial
> > > > terminal to talk to it such as minicom or HyperTerminal. It therefore
> has no
> > > > operating system dependency. It is easy to log data to a file and then
> use a
> > > > graphing program of your choice to plot it.
> >
> > Marketing people always want to show-off GUI, even if it's better done
> > with a copule of keys.
> >
> > > >
> > > > To my shock, people ask about the GUI! There isn't one yet, I tell
> them. The
> > > > GUI would communicate and graph data all-in-one. I am not a
> PC-software
> > > > designer, I like assembly language and hardware design. As far as I
> care,
> > > > the GUI can and should be open source. It should be very OS portable
> of
> > > > course. Is there a way to find someone who is interested in this?
> > > >
> > > > The company URL is www.statelogic.com
> > > >
> > > > Garrick
> > >
> > > What sort of time frame would you be looking at? I'd be willing to look
> > > into this; I retired in 2004 from 30 years of scientific software
> support
> > > and development. My initial thoughts would be to try to integrate with a
> > > web browser or use Java - I have no Java experience at this point, so
> > > would take me a while to ramp up. I can be contacted at - ray at rcarter
> > > dot net.
> >
> > We would be doing something similiar, but still in the process of bring
> > up the main board. We would use Firefox/Java as the front end and a
> > socket server (pain old C) as back end, even when both are running on
> > the same board. That way, we don't have to open up the security hole
> > with Java I/O.
> >
>
> What do you mean by "still in the process of bring up the main board." ?
>

We are working on a board capable of running embedded Java, as well as
interfacing to an I/O board (both analog and digital I/O). For the
main board, mounting 2 BGA and 1 SODIMM socket (0.5mm pitch) turns out
to be very tricky.

> Garrick

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