On 2/3/21 1:00 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > What I'm hearing is that these microcontroller standalone devices > don't give any feedback on the reading process. Couldn't they be more > tightly coupled to a PC so the raw data could be displayed immediately > and analyzed reasonably quickly? Certainly they could send all > the samples over USB quite quickly?
"Reasonably quickly" is a relative term. I've got samples here that I had to cogitate over for a year. Admittedly, these were items that were sui generis, but "quickly" was not in the picture. Perhaps with some choice pharmaceuticals, my thinking speed could be improved, but I haven't explored that yet. You know--you get a disk that's thought to contain some information, the identity of the originating system is unknown; no Rosetta stones to be seen. For my purposes, clearly defined spectral peaks are the critical thing--and that's done on my MCU implementation. --Chuck
