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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga As A Thermometer?
- Message-ID: <9423@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 06:08:17 GMT
- References: <3Z7cNB1w163w@coyote.datalog.com> <pl159410.710645917@academ01>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <pl159410.710645917@academ01> pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez) writes:
- >cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson) writes:
- >
- >> I was wondering (dangerous, I know...) if anyone would happen to
- >> know of a hardware hack for an Amiga to monitor air temperature
- >> via a joystick port.
- >
- >There is an analog joystick handler out there that'll provide the Analog to
- >Digital converter necessary for reading the voltage from a thermocouple.
- >A cheap variable-resistor which is temperature controlled is available from
- >radio Shak for about 2 bucks. The analog joystick driver is somewhere on a
- >Fred Fish
- >disk (on the net) and has included examples in C.
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- (Use your Return key!!!)
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- >You could go about connecting the thermistor the following way...
- >
- > pin x -------/\/\/\/\/\---------|
- >(amiga +5V) thermistor |
- ^^^^^ pin 7
- > _______
- > ---
- > -
- > ground (pin y)
- ^^^^^^ nah, you won't connect simply
- + 5 V to ground, will you?
- It's pin 5 for POTX or pin 9 for POTY
- (taken from user manual, why schematics?)
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