Development
of
a
data
logger
based


open

hardware
and
so4ware

Main
mo7va7on


Cost

Programmable

Easy
to
use

 Technical

Hurdle


Interfacing
hardware
and
so4ware

Finding
a
suitable
language
that
even

physicist
can
use

 Solu7on


Use
Indian
technology
‐
hardware

Use
python
‐
so4ware

 Solu7on


The
Indian
technology
is
based
on
the

project
called
Phoenix
by
B.
P.
Ajith
Kumar,

a
researcher
working
with
the
Nuclear

Science
Centre
of
India.


Physics
with
Homemade
Equipments

and
Innova7ve
Experiments.

 Solu7on


ATMEL
microcontroller



Using
C
at
the
microcontroller
end
and

Python
at
the
computer
end

 Solu7on


ATMEL
microcontroller



Using
C
at
the
microcontroller
end
and

Python
at
the
computer
end

The
architecture


phoenix.c

microcontroller


phm.py
 PC
side

 Things
need
to
improve


GUI
change
from
Tinker
to
wxWindows




Improve
the
sampling
rate

Use
pyusb
rather
pyserial

Physical
layout
of
the
datalogger