gEDA-dev: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

[Dan McMahill]

al davis wrote:
> On Friday 12 October 2007, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> I think it was mostly along the lines of university lab
>>> bench gear as a cottage industry.
>> I think if one goes the "usb dongle to laptop" route, this
>> becomes much more do-able.  USB frequency counters, USB
>> scopes, USB function generators, USB-driven power supplies,
>> etc.
> 
> In some cases, yes, this is what I had in mind.
> 
> In others, there is a need for simple equipment, like we had 
> years ago.
> 
> USB-driven power supply??????

Sure.  Make everything programmable and make it so you can read back the 
current and voltage.