Hi! I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if anything I say is out of context. As a mechanical engineer at a product design company, I'm very interested in a cheap data logger.
Is there a way that we can all put our minds together to create a "Product Requirements" document? There seems to be a significant amount of knowledge and ideas, and it would great if we can compile them. I'm not sure if this is the forum to make a collaborative document, but I'm willing to give it a shot!
From my brief skimming of the posts, I think that as requirements we have the following:
PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS
- Completely Open-Source, running off of the Arduino Hardware
- Portable, to record data "in the field"
- Able to store data to some sort of mass storage (SD, USB, etc.)
- Read inputs from a variety of instruments, most importantly:
- temperature
- GPS
- fluid pressure
- air speed
- light
- electrical inputs (voltage, current, etc.)
- Interface with a GUI/graphing software
I know this is a couple steps back from what some people have done, but it would be nice to have a "common goal" in our collaborative efforts!