Updates to StampDAQ coming for the New Year - Your input?
Martin Hebel
Posts: 1,239
I keep getting the same requests for mods to StampDAQ over and over, so it's about time I guess for a version 2. Here is what will change:
- Greater selection of COM ports (those USB thingies add a lot).
- Ability to send data for up to 26 columns instead of 10
- Ability to GET and SET any cell's data, pretty easy to set up a loop or what not for a range. Many want to do real time collection and adjust values based on the spreadsheets values they provide.
Examples:
DEBUG "SET, C3,", DEC x,CR
DEBUG "GET, D4",CR
DEBUGIN DEC X
- Addition of TIMER directive for seconds (milliseconds) since last cleared instead of time of day.
- Re-doing the help files since I no longer use the software I used to make those.
- Using Install Shield for a single EXE installer.
- Suggestions and feedback welcome. A couple programmable interactive checkboxes or such?
-Martin
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Martin Hebel
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee -·2.4GHz Wireless Adapters & transceivers·for the BASIC Stamp & Other controllers·
- Greater selection of COM ports (those USB thingies add a lot).
- Ability to send data for up to 26 columns instead of 10
- Ability to GET and SET any cell's data, pretty easy to set up a loop or what not for a range. Many want to do real time collection and adjust values based on the spreadsheets values they provide.
Examples:
DEBUG "SET, C3,", DEC x,CR
DEBUG "GET, D4",CR
DEBUGIN DEC X
- Addition of TIMER directive for seconds (milliseconds) since last cleared instead of time of day.
- Re-doing the help files since I no longer use the software I used to make those.
- Using Install Shield for a single EXE installer.
- Suggestions and feedback welcome. A couple programmable interactive checkboxes or such?
-Martin
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Martin Hebel
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee -·2.4GHz Wireless Adapters & transceivers·for the BASIC Stamp & Other controllers·
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A programmable box or two would be a great addition. I log information at time intervals as well as when a change in data of a certain magnitude is detected. I display realtime data on the message board and while I don't monitor it regularly there have been times when I see or think I see something of interest. Collected data is saved in a 128k EEPROM. A programmable check box would allow me to request just a short segment of saved data rather than download everything from the last data dump. As you know I can program the Stamp for that information but I have no way of requesting it.
Thanks for StampDAQ, it is great as is. I have learned a lot about programing Stamps because of StampDAQ. I was logging data before using StampDAQ but it was clumsy and time consuming retrieving it via an lcd.
Randy
-Martin
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Martin Hebel
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee -·2.4GHz Wireless Adapters & transceivers·for the BASIC Stamp & Other controllers·
two schools that I work with are converting to OpenOffice, and I just brought up the issue and we will be testing it, but future changes
might change compatablity. Otherwise a great and useful training tool.
Dave Koenig
I suspect Parallax would like to have their software compatible with any common clone software which exists. However. I doubt they have the time to do such exhaustive testing, as might be appropriate.
However, if you were to do the testing, and point out to them where there might be problems, which hopefully can be easily overcome, I'd bet they might be much more willing to help you along the way.
Regards,
Bruce Bates
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StampDAQ was developed by me, which means on weekends/night when I had time outside of my real job of teaching at SIU, I put the package together including help files, etc. It was presented to Parallax in an Email, and they liked it so much they asked to label it as a Parallax product. I received some compensation for it. I presented them with my thought on StampDAQ V2, and again they offered some compensation to include material for the SX and Propeller in the package (outside of what I was willing to do it for free as they have always been very good to me), and I know how it can be used in schools and in science & technology which is dear to my heart.
While making it compatible with open-suites would be, um, sweet, I do not have the time nor resources to investigate it. If it works with an 'excel-compatible' product, great, if not, there will not be much I can do. StampPlot is a package in itself, can be used to create logs to be imported, and is also free for eduational use.
Thanks for the feedback, and if you do some testing and let me know it's at lease close, I may investigate, and it seems VBA/Macro have been added to OpenOffice in the recent past, making it at least do-able in theory. It may have to wait until summer though when I have more time.
-Martin Hebel
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Electronic Systems Technologies
http://www.siu.edu/~isat/est
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Martin Hebel
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee -·2.4GHz Wireless Adapters & transceivers·for the BASIC Stamp & Other controllers·
It was slowed down a bit when I was requested to add examples for SX and Propeller, but I hope to have a beta posted within a 1 to 2 weeks.
Thanks for the interest!
-Martin
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Martin Hebel
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee -·2.4GHz Wireless Adapters & transceivers·for the BASIC Stamp & Other controllers·
So here is files to get you started testing, the BS2 is fairly well documented.
Test the Interactive bar graph - it's pretty cool, basically using Excel for real-time metering.
http://www.selmaware.com/stampdaq-testing/home.htm
Provide some feedback if you test it please.
-Martin
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Martin Hebel
StampPlot - Graphical Data Acquisition and Control
AppBee -·2.4GHz Wireless Adapters & transceivers·for the BASIC Stamp & Other controllers·
Do you have the help file created yet ?
When I press "F1" I get a message that it cannot find the help file.
Bean.
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No, I haven't got those done yet, nor are the SX examples you so graciously made for it included yet. It's been a hectic couple weeks which is why I thought I'd post what I have so far.
Attached are the help OLD help files you can extract to the same directory.
-Martin
Thanks
George
It underwent a name change a couple years back or so to PLX-DAQ with a few more features and such.
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/393/Default.aspx
-Martin Hebel