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Re: My yearly post about environmental monitoring devices

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Thu Dec 2 07:13:42 2004

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:13:13 GMT
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Sorry Alex, but I think you are barking up
> the wrong tree.

> When you add Ethernet as a requirement
> then you are asking for an I/O interface
> that is more complex 

Ethernet is cheap and trivial, drop some
code in one of these (cpu is built into the
rj45 socket)

http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport.html

talk ibutton on the serial port and you're done.

> and more expensive
> than the basic temp/hum recorder on the PIC.

Ethernet or don't bother. Serial is so last century. 

brandon

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