[NTLK] eProbe and eMate in 2013

Clu drclu at swbell.net
Mon Jan 28 06:42:17 EST 2013


Wow, that is pretty wicked!

So you coded that program yourself?


On 1/27/13 10:53 PM, SteveCraft wrote:
> Hey all, just checking in. I connected an eMate, eProbe, and Vernier Serial
> Box Interface that had all been sitting mothballed for *way* too long. I got
> a Temperature Sensor from eBay for $10 and a Heart Rate monitor for  $15
> IIRC, fired things up, and they work! The idea is to come up with something
> a little different for my kid's science fair this year. My original plan
> was/is to get the Vernier bits working with a homebrew program on my IIGS, I
> thought that the eMate/eProbe combination would make a good alternate plan
> if I (most likely) don't get the IIGS coding done in time to actually do an
> experiment and make the fair.  Anyway, the temperature sensing works
> as-advertised. The heart rate monitor is not on the eProbe supported list,
> and and I don't (yet?) understand how it works, but I need to experiment a
> bit more.
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> Anyway, Vernier Serial Box Interface and eProbe stuff can be had super cheap
> these days, so if you are looking for another job for your Newton hardware,
> there it is..
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> For a little while, I will have these of pictures up:
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> http://www.jeannereal.com/get/newt/ematewitheprobe1.jpg
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> http://www.jeannereal.com/get/newt/ematewitheprobe2.jpg
>




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