Picture this - you're in the lab looking at something and you're filling out an Excel spreadsheet (or a Mac spreadsheet or a Google spreadsheet). How about a device that you can use to point at each instrument display and click a button and it fills out a cell in your spreadsheet? This shouldn't be hard at all - the device is plugged into USB and acts like a keyboard. The tough part is recognizing the number - which, considering it's froma 7 segment LED or LCD display, shouldn't be too hard too.
Another idea is to use short range wireless to get all the instruments on your bench to show up on your PC as links. Then, when you're filling out your spreadsheet - you just click on one, then the next, then the next, etc. Or better still, you just put the links in your Excel and click one button and it fills out all the column this row. Nice?
No comments:
Post a Comment