Re: [NTLK] temperature

From: Filip Zawadiak (philz_at_vyx.net)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 01:59:48 PDT


Johannes Wolf wrote:

>In principle I can see two ways:
>1) there is an audio input on the Newton Interconnect Port. If you condition
>the sensor (thermistor) signal such that you gat a voltage between 0 V and
>2V max for the desired temperature range you could connect that to the audio
>input of the Newt. I do not know how good the A/D converter is accessible
>from a software point of view. But in any case some software is necessary to
>read the A/D converter output and translate it into a temperature reading,
>put time stamps on it and save it.
>
I don't think it would work. They definitely put there a capcitor to cut
off DC voltage.... You would need to modulate some audible signal with
voltage, then read signal amplitude from A/D converter...

Bye!

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