My yearly post about environmental monitoring devices

Brandon Butterworth brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk
Thu Dec 2 12:13:13 UTC 2004


> Sorry Alex, but I think you are barking up
> the wrong tree.

> When you add Ethernet as a requirement
> then you are asking for an I/O interface
> that is more complex 

Ethernet is cheap and trivial, drop some
code in one of these (cpu is built into the
rj45 socket)

http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport.html

talk ibutton on the serial port and you're done.

> and more expensive
> than the basic temp/hum recorder on the PIC.

Ethernet or don't bother. Serial is so last century. 

brandon



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