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JohnS
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Posted: 09:34pm 10 Aug 2020

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The post Roll your own data logger - CMM2 made me wonder if there's a cable+board (I guess both) to provide a convenient way to bring the signals out / take them in and connect things, and which is protected against "abuse" (cross-connection, shorts, etc)?

I suppose it would be good if it also had some LEDs and, er, switches, etc, which can be patched in?

I suspect opto-isolators etc would be useful.

John
Edited 2020-08-11 07:34 by JohnS

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Posted: 09:47pm 10 Aug 2020

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JohnS said The post Roll your own data logger - CMM2 made me wonder if there's a cable+board (I guess both) to provide a convenient way to bring the signals out / take them in and connect things, and which is protected against "abuse" (cross-connection, shorts, etc)?

I suppose it would be good if it also had some LEDs and, er, switches, etc, which can be patched in?

I suspect opto-isolators etc would be useful.

John

The ribbon / breadboard is just a Raspberry PI breakout with a notch cut in it so I can reverse the cable...

Not quite as grand as you suggestion - but cheap as chips.

A fine idea - not sure I'm up to the challenge to build it though.

Entropy is not what it used to be

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