ComputerVoltageSources

For the science project/hobbiest thing we were trying to keep everything on the new PC 
board to through hole components. I doubt you can find a through hole USB interface chip. 
So that would be an additional problem for USB interface, surface mount soldering.

--- In ComputerVoltageSources@yahoogroups.com, "Larry T." <larry@...> wrote:
>
> Ahh, but now we have diverged from a stand alone device that will work
> witout a computer to a computer interface.  Sorry, no slippery slope
> allowed here!  We want a device that we can program, use for a few
> months, then completly change, just like the patchs on our modulars!
> 
> Nice try though Grant.
> 
> Larry T.
> 
> --- In ComputerVoltageSources@yahoogroups.com, "Grant Richter"
> <grichter@> wrote:
> >
> > After all, if you are going to add USB, why not just make a USB to 8
> x 0 to 10 volt inputs and 
> > outputs. Get or steal a driver, and scr*w the Basic Atom Pro?
> > 
> > Actually, they probably make LabView interfaces just like that,
> possibly with interface drivers 
> > already written for C-Sound.
> > 
> > All of which makes this WHOLE thing silly, unless we can get a board
> for $50 that a high 
> > school student could build as a science fair project (or Dad).
> > 
> > A "modern" implementation is several quantum steps from a PSIM like
> device.
> >
>