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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3975.0. "RECORDING VOLTAGE CURVE " by GVA05::BERGMANS () Tue Jul 31 1990 13:30

    I want to make a time/voltage plot, and I believe there must be
    a way to use my Amiga to do that.
    
    What I need to record is a DC voltage that drops from +/- 10 volts
    to +/- 5 volts over a periode of 5 to 10 minutes.
                                         
    (Some of you might have recognized that I wish to record the
    performance of R.C. NiCad packs under constant resistive load)
    
    In other words in need an analog/in of some level into the Amiga,
    and obviously I have to write some programs.
                                                
    Could the potentiometer input on the joystick port (obviously with
    some circuits between) be used, or has anyone some better idea?
    
    Regards                           
                                                
                                                
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3975.1WJG::GUINEAUTue Jul 31 1990 13:345
get a cheap sound digitizer like perfect sound. It can probably do this
fine with a slow enough sample rate. Not sure how you could interpret 
voltage levels...

john
3975.2Analog-to-digital conversion.HPSRAD::BUSCHDave Busch, MRO1-2/S10Tue Aug 07 1990 21:1130
I'd like to be able to do the same thing. I've got the "Future Sound" digitizer 
and I'd like to be able to feed it a range of analog voltages. The problem is, 
the software that comes with it is geared to audio sampling rates, and the input
to the device requires line-level inputs. 

The inputs could easily be scaled up or down as needed, but how can I adjust the
sampling rate to some sub-audio level?  Does anybody know what the I/O specs for
the digitizer are? In other words, how could I digitize samples of some
arbitrary waveform from Basic or 'C' for example. 

Some of the projects that this information would make possible are:

	Implement an "oscilloscope", as was suggested in a recent note. 

	Record electro-cardiogram data and print it out on hard copy. 
	(No, I'm not a doctor or a quack, just a curious tinkerer.)

	Monitor meteorological data, such as temperature, wind, humidity etc.
	over an extended period.

	Perform high school science projects which require monitoring changes in
	temperature, light level, velocity etc. over time (with the aid of the
	appropriate sensors).

	Build a transistor curve tracer. (This was one of the projects I did as
	a college lab project. However, mine was implemented in hardware. With 
	the help of an Amiga, the job could be done mostly in software.)

Dave

3975.3gameport.device...WBC::BAKERMutants on the BountyThu Aug 09 1990 18:365
	I think you really might want to check out the gameport.device
	for some of the slower waveforms you're interested in...