From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 21 20:21:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from virtualtrends.com (virtualtrends.com [192.41.12.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3042B37B674 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from humanhunter@connectstar.net) Received: from skyline (05-053.024.popsite.net [216.126.161.53]) by virtualtrends.com (8.8.5) id VAA16139; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:21:49 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: virtualtrends.com: Host 05-053.024.popsite.net [216.126.161.53] claimed to be skyline Message-ID: <004001bfdc12$0e9aa0c0$3700a8c0@skyline> From: "Blake" To: References: Subject: Re: Hardware in space? Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:21:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Another thought would be using a microcontroller, it could at least help with relaying info from the RS232 port.. look at the rabbit at http://www.zworld.com . My company is looking at a similar situation except we are sending a radio and the microcontroller (hopefully) to mars... The microcontroller will also be handy because cooling shouldn't be a problem at all, and it will run on a very small supply of power To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message