new education team - please explore

[Phoenixink]

Scott,

Thanks for you reply.

In response,
I am connecting the probe to the USB port on the server (initially, would 
like to be able to use the clients at some point but the server may do for 
now)
Perhaps I am not fully understanding but is seem the problem still remains 
that the Data Studio software cannot find the Probe on the USB port.
Therefore it cannot "talk" to the probe and get the information it needs.

Am I missing something?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Balneaves" <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca>
To: <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: new education team - please explore


> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:02:27AM -0400, Phoenixink wrote:
>
>> I have tried to use WINE as a windows emulator for the Data Studio 
>> software and it works well except there is no way to access the Explorer 
>> probe on the USB port, so even though the software runs it cannot collect 
>> the data from the Explorer probe. This is a show stopper as far as being 
>> able to implement Linux.
>
> I guess the first question is, where are you plugging in the probe?  On
> the workstations?  Or on the server?  It will need to be on the server,
> since there's no link between a client's USB port, and the software
> running on the server.
>
> As well, the user you want to be able to use the software will have to
> be in the plugdev group, as well, in order to have permission to access
> the USB port.
>
> However, as it happens, through one of those odd little bits of
> serendipity that often happen to pop up in life, I've just published my
> own fuse filesystem which allows you to control a Velleman K8055 USB
> interface board:
>
> http://www.velleman.be/ot/en/product/view/?id=351346
>
> I've written a FUSE based filesystem that allows you to read and write
> to the K8055:
>
> http://www.alburg.net/k8055fs.html
>
> The K8055 has 2 AD inputs, 5 Digital inputs, 2 DA outputs and 8 Digital
> outputs, as well as two 16 bit counters.
>
> As for visualization, you could either use gnuplot, or, simply graph the
> collected dataset in OpenOffice.org calc.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Scott
>
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