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From: seeker@indirect.com (Stan Eker)
Subject: Re: Has Anybody ever built a thermometer?
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 06:30:12 GMT
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Fekete Vajk (vajk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) pondered:

: I would like to build a thermometer conneced to my PC.
: If anyone has already built anything like that, please write me.
: I am interested in cheap ADC's, and also cannot choose a 
: sensor. (diode, thermistor...) It has only to work within the -30  +40 
: Celsius range.

Dallas Semiconductor has the app notes and data sheets for their DS1620 on
their FTP site (ftp.dalsemi.com).  Get the data sheets, and app notes 67, 85.

Now, if they'd just put 'em all together and run it through the Acrobat
distiller, they'd have a killer 5meg file that'd be worth downloading!
Trying to do a search with Ghostscript is an exercise in futility, unless
you like programming in Postscript as Don Lancaster appears to.  Gag.

<the above in an ongoing dig at the semi manufacturers - take heed, guys!>

