al davis wrote:
How about lab test equipment. There is a real need for simple stuff that is too simple to market at the high prices the big instrument companies need to charge. The kind of equipment you need in a home lab. Like Heathkit used to make.
In kit form? I know an Austin EE bought the music synthesizer kit business PAIA and that has a life of its own for many decades...
There does seem to be a lack of inexpensive metrology and yet it often needs fancy coax and such that's hard to get low low cost... One thing that would be good is pure copper terminals for connecting up test leads with no accidental thermocouple effects, and supply it as a kit with compatible pure coper terminals meters and the meter would sell too, wouldn't it? All the inexpensive meters, Fluke included, have undesirable plating on the terminals.... temperature probes and volt probes too... but hard to imagine cottage manufacturing of them...
Another real need is for the hardware side of computer instrumentation. Something like the commercial product "Labview". We have most of the software. We are lacking the hardware.
Are you thinking ethernet? What's your fave software for emulating Labview functions? John Griessen _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
