Well i hope i'm asking this is the right section.
Here is what i'm trying to do.
Capture a serial stream from a meeter with a micro for conversion to speech.
This is the situation.
I'm Visually impaired and im a tinkerer i make small projects small circuits and mod mod mod the everliving crap out of almost every thing i own.
Well one of the most anoying aspects of having poor eyesight aside from how long it takes me to plug in a split molex and bouncing around the room when i burn my nose on the soldering iron is reading a meeter.
After slowly lining up the probes getting them well in spot i end up moving so much to try and see the meeter i loos the connection i'm trying to test. so i want to rig a meeter to speak it's mind when i click a foot pedel
ofcorse this can be setup to log as well but bla i want speech
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Since my old meeter has finaly lost calabration so much that it's usless i'm in the market for a new one and this time i'm going to get a good one (100-200)$ range now that cost is going to hirt . and hirt hard for me this meeter is going to have to last me at least 10 years to be worth it.
so i'm hoping you folks out there can help.
I need a meeter that i can tap a serial line on. somthign that spits out it's readings prety fast
as you can guess i don't mind modding it if i have to.
The string is important.
it should contain.
[setting|range|reading] or more.
the spoken result (altho i'll probably shorthand it) will speak something like this.
(foot click)
{speech}-- A C One hundred fifteen point three two three volts
or
{speech} Amps one point 4 Milly amps.
All that can be parsed form the string even if it's spitting out decimal data like 1,4,9,1.9369000
I just need a good meeter that i know will last take a few Whopses off the table and i can tap a data line out of.
A plus if the data tap is powerfull enough to run an opto
oh ya
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it can be one way data no return data needed. all the other stuff is handled by the micro.
PS.
dont know wich micro i'll be using yet it's a tossup between arduino and pic right now.
PPS my old meeter was modded to run a HUGE wall mounted display wich was keeling over in it's own write as it was allso a clock / caller ID and ran constantly.
And the method i used on it was just sniffing the signals sent to the meeters lcd itself so no real data.