There is an announcement for a complete Electronic Lab distribution based on Fedora. It will be available when Fedora 8 will be available.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraElectronicLab
Stay tuned!
Thanks for the link. I love open source.
Bill
Quote from: tsakou on October 17, 2007, 02:33:43 AM
There is an announcement for a complete Electronic Lab distribution based on Fedora. It will be available when Fedora 8 will be available.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraElectronicLab
Stay tuned!
I am puzzled.
Are they saying that they have designed a piece of software that will run on ONLY one distribution of Linux? If so, they must be barking mad.
Paul.
Quote from: Paul-R on October 27, 2007, 10:09:00 AM
I am puzzled.
Are they saying that they have designed a piece of software that will run on ONLY one distribution of Linux? If so, they must be barking mad.
Paul.
No, the software is made for all distributions. But instead of collecting them, and trying to set them up, manually (different distributions have different version kernel and libraries), the author has done the job. He liked fedora, so he did all the "dirty" stuff (setting up and configuring), and there you have a pre-set, working distribution. No need to find software and tune it by yourself.
Kostas
I am very glad. It looks like a very useful item.
I "tried" to use KiCAD and, well, -- to be frank, its interface works like it was designed my moneys. You have to try it to see what I mean. I had to shut it down and not go back to it, as it traumatized me. I went and got a program called "DipTrace" for PCB / schematic work. They have a free version of it that does 250 pin boards. Fairly good interface.
Free stuff is not always what it is cracked up to be.
Quote from: mrl on November 30, 2007, 12:21:12 AM
I "tried" to use KiCAD and, well, -- to be frank, its interface works like it was designed my moneys. You have to try it to see what I mean. I had to shut it down and not go back to it, as it traumatized me. I went and got a program called "DipTrace" for PCB / schematic work. They have a free version of it that does 250 pin boards. Fairly good interface.
Free stuff is not always what it is cracked up to be.
The problem with open source programs is that they need feedback from users. If you like open source, and U don't know how to program, suggestions are always acceptable from the project developers. If you have time, you can contact the developers and give them suggestions. I didn't try KiCAD, so I don't have an opinion about it. But other geda tools are workable (I tried ngspice for a little while).
Useful low cost hardware and software - 1MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope at 49 us$ (33 us$ kit)
buy fully assembled, don't' buy the kit difficult because surface mounted.
http://www.dpcav.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16330&cat=0&page=1&featured
http://jyetech.com/en/default.html
automation and monitoring at 15 us$ Liberlab
http://sites.google.com/site/liberlabsite/
http://radon2.u-strasbg.fr/jemulp/liberlab/En-demo1/En-demo1-v08.html
with Arduino:
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2008/01/19/arduino-liberlab-liberino/
Quote from: wings on March 01, 2010, 03:06:28 AM
Useful low cost hardware and software - 1MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope at 49 us$ (33 us$ kit)
buy fully assembled, don't' buy the kit difficult because surface mounted.
http://www.dpcav.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16330&cat=0&page=1&featured
http://jyetech.com/en/default.html
automation and monitoring at 15 us$ Liberlab
http://sites.google.com/site/liberlabsite/
http://radon2.u-strasbg.fr/jemulp/liberlab/En-demo1/En-demo1-v08.html
with Arduino:
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2008/01/19/arduino-liberlab-liberino/
Superprobe:
“The Superprobe project was designed to see how much could be done with a PIC chip and just a few parts.
This device is designed around a PIC16F870, a 4 digit LED display module and very little else.
Note: I have received a lot of inquiries on this project.
To date, several have been duplicated world-wide.
Many have been constructed in other types of cases. As long as the circuit is wired as shown, and the object code (below) is programmed into the PIC, the devices all worked perfectly.
Operation is via 2 pushbuttons.
Holding down button #2 while pushing button #1 cycles through operating modes.
Here are how each of the modes work at presentâ€
Prob Logic Probe
PULS Logic Pulser
FrEq Frequency Counter
Cnt Event Counter
VoLt Voltmeter
diod Diode Junction Voltage
Cap Capacitance Measurement
Coil Inductance Measurement
SIG Signal Generator
ntSC Video Pattern
9600 Serial Ascii
Midi Midi Note
R/C R/C Servo
[ ] Square Wave
Prn Pseudo Random Number
ir38 IR LED
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
http://mondo-technology.com/index.html
http://mondo-technology.com/sphof.html
http://mondo-technology.com/forsale.html
http://www.tato.ind.br/loja/produtos_descricao.asp?lang=pt_BR&codigo_produto=78
http://www.denizelektronik.com/digital_test_cihazi.htm
http://ikon.wz.cz/mondo/index.php
Looks like the FEL covers a lot of programs avaiable elsewhere. Perhaps they'll make a nice interface for it like was done with MONO or Eclipse, etc.
The cheapest dual trace scope in the galaxy
This submini USB scope is based on a Atmel Tiny45 cpu and cost less than 5â,¬ with a homemade pcb
Do not expect more than 100's of sample/S, the bottleneck is in the HID interface.
http://yveslebrac.blogspot.com/2008/10/cheapest-dual-trace-scope-in-galaxy.html
Quote from: wings on June 15, 2011, 12:27:44 AM
The cheapest dual trace scope in the galaxy
This submini USB scope is based on a Atmel Tiny45 cpu and cost less than 5â,¬ with a homemade pcb
Do not expect more than 100's of sample/S, the bottleneck is in the HID interface.
http://yveslebrac.blogspot.com/2008/10/cheapest-dual-trace-scope-in-galaxy.html
Great link!!
Thanks Wings.