[time-nuts] Lady Heather without a PC

[Chris Albertson]

Yes, that was my question, Which did you use, were you able to build LH or
Thunderhead for run on the PDA?   If so which OS?


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:39 PM, 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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Chris Albertson
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