gEDA-user: Design Lab Equipment

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

al davis wrote:

> How about lab test equipment.  There is a real need for simple 
> stuff that is too simple to market at the high prices the big 
> instrument companies need to charge.  The kind of equipment you 
> need in a home lab.  Like Heathkit used to make.
In kit form?  I know an Austin EE bought the music synthesizer kit business PAIA
and that has a life of its own for many decades...

There does seem to be a lack of inexpensive metrology and yet it often needs fancy coax
and such that's hard to get low low cost...

One thing that would be good is pure copper terminals for connecting up test leads with
no accidental thermocouple effects, and supply it as a kit with compatible pure coper terminals
meters and the meter would sell too, wouldn't it?

All the inexpensive meters, Fluke included, have undesirable plating on the terminals....

temperature probes and
volt probes too... but hard to imagine cottage manufacturing of them...

> Another real need is for the hardware side of computer 
> instrumentation.  Something like the commercial 
> product "Labview".  We have most of the software.  We are 
> lacking the hardware.

Are you thinking ethernet?  What's your fave software for emulating Labview functions?

John Griessen




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