[plug] sensors

[Patrick Coleman]

On 9/20/07, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:
> Its easy stuff, really.

but wasn't Adam looking for something more 'enterprise'? :) I mean,
knocking a board up to do this really wouldn't be that hard, which is
why it seems strange noone sells something cheap that does this.

If you want to make it even cheaper, just have one microcontroller
doing one temp device, say a DS18S20 and write the temp to RS232 once
a second, then have all the logic on the computer.

In fact, I believe there's software out there to link up a DS18S20
directly to the serial port (see
http://martybugs.net/electronics/tempsensor), which makes it even
simpler.

-Patrick