The LogStick Concept

Once I got the idea of blogging my experience using the ARM MCU tools to do an application for an ARM processor-based MCU, I then had to think about what it would be. It seemed rather complicated. If I picked a particular market segment, it wouldn’t exactly have mass appeal. If picked a particular commercial application I would be competing head-on with the guys who do it for real. If I did some kind of complex algorithmic application it might be a turn off to many. And then…
I took my son to school one day and bunch of moments in the past few years slotted together in my mind and I thought of the LogStick.
Here is the idea:
The LogStick is a tool to allow children between the ages of 9 and 14 to conduct experiments that require the collection of small remote sets of data (less than 10,000 entries) that are associated with time. The data sets can then be processed on a host PC system back at their school. The tool is generic, allowing for the following kinds of data to be collected:

• Temperature
• Light level
• Sound level
• Electrical conductance
• User activated snapshot

The tool would support the collection of generally one and in some cases two types of data at the same time.

All data items collected are time stamped against a real-time clock in the LogStick. This is YY:MM:DD, and HH:MM:SS (no further granularity required).
Since I like the name LogStick I have moved this blog under a blog of the same name and used a commercial blogging tool which all in all should make the whole experience better.