On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Ben Hall <kd5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris and list, > > On 5/15/2017 1:22 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> Are you still going for Sidereal time? If so that is floating point >> > > I'm not sure how Sidereal time came up...it wasn't one of my goals and > after reading the discussion, it's going to be way past what I think I can > understand, never mind program onto *anything*. ;) > > This is my favorite under $2 boards now - http://r.ebay.com/9UasSq >> > > That blows my mind! $1.62 shipped. Amazing! I read what you wrote on > different boards and I've got a lot of poking around and reading to do. The > idea of dropping a file onto a USB-looking drive is very appealing to me. > And they seem to be very cheap. To be honest, being more towards the > "idiot" end of the embedded programming spectrum, I'm really thinking I > should stay with slower, simpler, and more well documented stuff. If I > knew what I was doing...I'd probably be ordering up some of cheaper, more > off-the-beaten-path stuff that's way less expensive. > > One more bit of advice. Buy a logic analyzer. I was using one today and >> > > I've been on the lookout for a dedicated bench one at a good price...but > nothing has tickled my fancy. I'm going to order one of those $10 Saleae > clones this evening. That Saleae clone analyzer would be just the ticket > to see if the time information is coming from the serial port before the > 1PPS tick. This is what is written in the little TruePosition information > we have and would be nice to verify. :) > > Thanks much and 73, > ben, kd5byb > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >
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