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Post by tenochtitlanuk on Nov 24, 2020 14:54:16 GMT -5
A cheap ADC card plugs in your USB port and streams ten data channels. What's not to like!
I bought this board some months ago, and needed to check out some old LiPo batteries. A page on my site gives more details. And I finally got LB/Wine/Linux to work with USB serial devices! An earlier correspondence with gidiom2 got me NEARLY there. And the code may give useful ideas to johnking and others. |
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Post by gidiom2 on Nov 27, 2020 12:37:02 GMT -5
Pleased to see you got serial comms working with LB & linux.
Good looking board, but can I also add that the arduino nano provides analog inputs (as you probably already know) plus other I/O options, costs less and is easy to extract serial data with liberty basic. Mine cost less than £3 (dare I say from Ch**a :>(( ) and works fine with LB4 and WINE.
Shame that the UBW and UBW32 is now scarce and used boards demand ridiculous prices.
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Post by tenochtitlanuk on Nov 27, 2020 14:18:20 GMT -5
Agree about UBW/UBW32. Use mine regularly for stepper motor projects etc, as shown on my site. So simple to make x/y motion, run servos, etc.
Have programmed microcontrollers in the past, but am not into the Arduino world. Play too much on LB and Raspberry Pi projects.. and I also am getting to grips with LB5 idiosyncracies!
My first computer was a hard-wired set up of an RCA1802. Lovely way to get bits and bytes in and out- but so slow and weak compared with modern microcontrollers, let alone computers-on-a-chip.
I had the ADC ready and unused. Took only minutes to run it on LB on MS. Took rather longer to sort out why it was not working on LB under Wine, when the device was recognised!
Your help was very good and encouraging. What I missed seems to be I had to do the regedit to remove the existing link of com port to allow the new one to be recognised. Will try on a virgin installation again and document exactly what I changed!
Thanks again
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