[time-nuts] Lady Heather without a PC

Didier shalimr9 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 17 23:30:17 EDT 2013


Does the iPAQ have a serial port? I have a Dell PDA that runs Pocket PC2003 with WiFi and Bluetooth but no serial port.

Didier


Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is not my software. See
>http://fuzzythinking.com/projects/thunderhead/
>I just used the complied file, but the source code is there of you want
>
>to change it. The iPAQ I built in was an H2200 series running PocketPC 
>2002. I've also ran it on a H3900 series (H3950) running PocketPC 2003.
>I used an SD card to store the exe file.  A quick check on ebay shows 
>2200 iPAQs on buy it now for $25. 
>
>Robert G8RPI.
>
>________________________________
> From: Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com>
>To: Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk>; Discussion of precise
>time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 19:44
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather without a PC
> 
>
>
>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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>>
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>>
>>Chris Albertson
>>Redondo Beach, California
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