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Description of a digital multimeter application.
A project to connect a digital multimeter with a computer.

picture, icon, digital multimeter program.
[Francais]

Credits:

Eugene has many years of industry experience in the scientific, software development and electro-mechanical field, he co-started the business operation for a linux company in US. He currently works has a freelance using mostly open source tools, his working hard at implementing businesses with open source tools.

His past work experience includes, maintenance of many kind of scientific equipments, spectrophotometers, liquid and gaz chromatographs, microtomes, microscopes, high vacum equipments. He has also many years of work in the robotic field and created robotics components used for developing films, planned assembly lines for small components, such as watches and speedometers assembly and created industiral robots for bigger products such as, painting or welding equipment.
He made computer programs for geodesic structures, worked several years with CAD and databases applications, he has also many years of Apple Macintosh and Ms Windows experience.
When not working, he spend part of his free time volunteering some activity with teenagers, he enjoy hiking, mountain biking, making telescopes and spending time using them.

Jerry de Raad has more than 10 years of industry experience and is software development manager turned freelance software consultant.
He has led several teams to create succeful products.
His technical work includes browser extensions, desktop applications, device drivers, test frameworks and n-tier web sites.
Jerry holds an MSC from EPFL and an MBA from U. of Phoenix.

Christian is currently a software engineer at Logitech where he is designing and implementing application software for the Logitech QuickCam product line.
In Switzerland, where he graduated with a BS in Computer science, he has been working for a small company manufacturing precision servo amplifiers for the packaging industry.
Outside work, he enjoys outdoors activities like photography, hiking and road biking. Until recently he has been administering the Visual Tcl project on SourceForge, which runs on the Linux platform.

picture, icon, digital multimeter program.

Bugs:

Known bugs...

2004/09/24
The problem described below has been fixed, with version 2004/09/24.

2004/09/04
As of this writing the following can occur with the current software version.
It can happen with an old cpu, low memory or relatively fast sampling (more than 1 sample every 2 seconds).
The computer, does not have the time to compute all the dot positions or does not have enough memory for it.
It ususally crash around 10000 - 12000 samples on the screen.
We are working on a fix.


picture, icon, digital multimeter program.

Licence and waranty:

pyDmm is releas under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).

pyDmm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License, or later.

pyDmm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Foobar; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

picture, icon, digital multimeter program.

What's next:

At time of this writing we are at a milestone, which is a usable application.
This application may open doors toward new requirement or wishes.
We need other volunteers wishing to help improving the software.

The software is still "crude", it still need a lot of work.
The graphical trace line, might be better handled using another tool such as "rrd".
It is still in the air, but we are thinking on something more powerful.
picture, icon, digital multimeter program.
picture, icon, digital multimeter program.

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