gEDA-dev: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

[John Griessen]

Dan McMahill wrote:
> al davis wrote:

>> USB-driven power supply??????
> 
> Sure.  Make everything programmable and make it so you can read back the 
> current and voltage.

Yep.

Then make an ethernet version that is otherwise identical.

Then make an IEEE588 precision time ethernet version of all of them
with the settable data, and the calbratable A2D read back data.

Then you have lab grade, fancy lab grade, and distributed process control too...
All open hardware.

I'm going to be involved in that evolution.

Industrial engineers, chemical engineers, and electric distribution engineers
don't do much nitty gritty hardware design... those markets are wide open for
the low priced approach now that China, Pacific Rim Mfrs are going full steam,
and USA is low growth, going "green" less and less petrochem plants, maybe even less
grid power distribution...  The gold plated $10K process modules a la Fisher Controls
are going into dinosaur mode I predict.

John G


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