Re: Reporting Data 1-Way-Out?

["Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com>]

Thanks for the follow-ups on this post. I just discovered the IIGS
joystick-reading ToolBox code (thanks to Michale Stephens). So I think
what I'd like to do is read temperature or water pH or etc from the
outside world via the 16-pin joystick port* and then send the data
using AppleTalk under GS/OS. I could use Complete Pascal 2 to code the
input reading and output writing. If I was going to work closer to the
metal, I would definitely try NadaNet or Contiki - but I think I have
a higher chance of finishing the project if I don't have to write a
protocol (or learn a new one) or buy a lot of hardware. I think going
"high level" just means I have to find the right Gatorbox to go from
AppleTalk port to ethernet. 

All comments welcome on helping me think this through.

Thanks!



* Anybody know where I can get a "port extender" to get the joystick
port outside of the IIGS case?

* Can anyone recommend decent input device hardware that can go to the
joystick port and a book?






On Mon, 12 May 2008 11:47:46 -0400, "Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>Kind of a ramble, hopefully you will get what I'm trying to "say".
>
>I was thinking about using a IIGS to do some data capture (like
>outdoor temperature, etc like the stuff from
>http://www.vernier.com/legacy/apple/mon.html). But I want the IIGS to
>sit in the attic and do it qiuetly, putting the data "somewhere else"
>where I can get to it from one of the PCs or Macs in the house. That
>would take some hardware as well as software... Since I'd use the
>16-pin joystick port to read the data, what would be the smart/cool
>way to do 1-way, write-only data output to another computer?
>
>Ideally I'd like to blast it over ethernet so one of the already
>LAN-connected computers can get it. 
>
>I wouldn't mind sending the data out of the modem or printer port
>using any protocol to one of the LAN computers.
>
>I wouldn't mind using some kind of Gatorbox-ish thing either.
>Anything.
>
>
>Thanks.
>