[Cialug] tornado-proofing your data?

[Nathan C. Smith]

Sounds like a great job for the Linksys Slug too.  You can load linux on it and use a USB port with Perl or Python (insert your favorite language).  For collecting the data I would check out onewire networks and sensors.  It has a network jack or you might be able to use a USB network card with it.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Hockey
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:02 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] tornado-proofing your data?
>
>
> >I still have yet to figure how to collect wind speed data
> using a linux
> >box. Anyone know of some Linux software that collects data
> from a serial
> >port and dumps it into a .csv file? At the moment, I take
> the .csv file
> >from a windows box, copy it onto a thumb drive, carry it
> over to a linux
> >box and import the data into a Mysql database.
>
> That sounds like a perfect job for a basic stamp. The
> downside is you would
> have to use the windows software to program it. Use the stamp
> to collect the
> data and send it out via rs-232 or use one the wireless modules.
> -dh
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>