No, not the band, the concept. I'm looking for a simple, easy-to-use board with several AD channels and some IO pins, that I can use while connected to a linux system. I bought an Arduino, it has the hardware I want, but I can't use it yet. There's something called the Simple Message System that allows users to send simple commands from the host: 'r a', 'r d 6', 'w d
6 1', that sort of thing. I could control that with a couple of shell scripts (readAD and wait4pin). That would be platform independent.
Problem is, I can't load SMS into the board. The crappy software from arduino.cc is ugly and almost useless. And, as a Silicon Valley burnout and non-programmer, I don't want to mess with Java or cross-compilers. I just want to use the hardware.
The cost of Arduino can't be beat. The problem is the software: originally targeted for WinPC, and it looks it.
Can anyone recommend a simple-to-use controller, or a service that would burn SMS or similar on very-inexpensive hardware? The goal is to end up with scaled data in a comma-separated textfile, for import to oocalc. Thanks.