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l008com · Mar 27, 2002, 11:06 PM

I need a thermometer for my Mac, my old Mac. Something that can plug into the Serial or ADB ports. Something simple and cheap. Anyone know of such a device (or how to make one from parts and some software that can read it :-D)?

l008com · Oct 31, 2002, 11:43 PM

Revival, i'd still like one. (or two, two serial ones would be perfect, i'd measure the inside and outside temps of the computer, and have the computer itself host the page that displays this very information. Its perfect :-P)

Avon · Oct 31, 2002, 11:55 PM

I made one of these and it worked really well. Dirt cheap.

http://users.auth.gr/~mixos/projects/nopcb/pc/006/

You will have to write software for the mac though. I was going to try to write the software but I lost intrest in the project. I just used it on win95...

l008com · Nov 1, 2002, 12:05 AM

Originally posted by Avon:
I made one of these and it worked really well. Dirt cheap.

http://users.auth.gr/~mixos/projects/nopcb/pc/006/

You will have to write software for the mac though. I was going to try to write the software but I lost intrest in the project. I just used it on win95...

Well it seems simple and cheap, but has anyone else written some software to drive it in classic i can download? I can't program, and defiantly don't have time to learn. Plus the other thing, that looks like it works on PC serial ports, but I need it for a Mac. Plus the point is to take the temp of a particular Mac, not the opposite, to use a Mac to take the temp of a particular area.

Avon · Nov 1, 2002, 12:09 AM

Here is a pic of the one I made..

http://www.AlvaroGil.com/~alvaro/mis...n/PC_Therm.JPG

It works really well and its a very simple concept. There are software/hardware combos out there but are more expensive becuse they use d-a converters...

Avon · Nov 1, 2002, 12:12 AM

if you want to take the temp of the Mac, stick the probe in the Mac!

When you make it use a mac serial connector.

Sorry, I can't help you with the software.

G4ME · Nov 1, 2002, 10:13 AM

couldn't you just get one of those inside outside thermometers? and stick it in side your case?

l008com · Nov 1, 2002, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by G4ME:
couldn't you just get one of those inside outside thermometers? and stick it in side your case?

But I need to get the temperature data into the computer. For live display and charts of temperature records.

l008com · Nov 3, 2002, 02:49 AM

OK i've been doing some searching, and right now it looks like my best bet might be to just get an ol quickcam for a serial port, and point it to an old fashioned thermometer, posting the image to my web site, every few minutes. Unfortunately, i doubt this would actually fit in the case, and that would be no logging whatsoever. There was this one thing I found called Hot Little Therm. Seems like it was just what I am looking for, only it is long, LONG dead. Not even any on ebay. Oh well.

cdhostage · Nov 3, 2002, 08:51 AM

I dunno about a thermometer, but you can get a radiation detector, not a geiger counter, that you can plug into a Mac's serial port. I forget its name, though = it's in American Science Surplus, the catalogue.

It does more than a Geiger counter, I think. Not sure.