Hi there,
I am wanting to build a device using a Raspberry Pi that could log voltages at an adjustable rate per second and save the logs in a file. I am confident in the software side before and have used a Raspberry Pi in the past.
From my research, I would be needing an adc chip such as MCP3008 which would be installed on a breadboard GPIO Pins this way.
For the actual link up from the breadboard to the pi as per here https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pro ... mputing/13, would i only need these cables https://thepihut.com/products/thepihuts ... upont-wire and only use the male to female cables. Only question is the very short jumper cables. I would get the Analog Zero board, but that's not in production any more.
For the logging, i guess there would need to be a way to connect inputs to the pi to be able to monitor the voltage source.
the latest Raspberry Pi has a rtc clock which is what i would also want to use to save the time and for the logging? Reason for asking is that it says from external battery. Does anything extra need to be done to use this, such as an additional hardware module or need to be kept plugged in all the time?
The final question, is it possible to add 4g connectivity via a usb dongle or such? Would it be a case of plug in a dongle with a sim card, then the pi would detect the network and that's it?
Many thanks for your help.
I am wanting to build a device using a Raspberry Pi that could log voltages at an adjustable rate per second and save the logs in a file. I am confident in the software side before and have used a Raspberry Pi in the past.
From my research, I would be needing an adc chip such as MCP3008 which would be installed on a breadboard GPIO Pins this way.
For the actual link up from the breadboard to the pi as per here https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pro ... mputing/13, would i only need these cables https://thepihut.com/products/thepihuts ... upont-wire and only use the male to female cables. Only question is the very short jumper cables. I would get the Analog Zero board, but that's not in production any more.
For the logging, i guess there would need to be a way to connect inputs to the pi to be able to monitor the voltage source.
the latest Raspberry Pi has a rtc clock which is what i would also want to use to save the time and for the logging? Reason for asking is that it says from external battery. Does anything extra need to be done to use this, such as an additional hardware module or need to be kept plugged in all the time?
The final question, is it possible to add 4g connectivity via a usb dongle or such? Would it be a case of plug in a dongle with a sim card, then the pi would detect the network and that's it?
Many thanks for your help.
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