🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi folks,

Question 1)
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My brother and I run a small karting team in Canada.  Lately,
we've wanted to collect some engine data on-board in order
to "profile" the race tracks.  Presumably such knowledge,
coupled with engine power curve data, could give us an edge
in tuning the engine to the course...

We are in need of a small, light data acquisition board that
would collect data from about 4 channels every second or
so, for about 20 minutes time.  The board should be able
to download its data to an IBM compatible PC.  The most 
important feature is that it should be self-contained (no
external power supply).  


Question 2)
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With the same application in mind (namely, karting) we would
also like to know if there are controllers that are available to use 
input from a few ports (temperature, rpm's, etc...) and auto-
matically determine settings for a couple of different stepper 
motors (which control fuel/air mix, exhaust-port length, etc...).
Again, the same requirements apply that the unit must be
self-contained power-wise.


We are quite willing to build these things ourselves, if they 
are not available commercially.  However, our preference would
be to buy them, if they are not prohibitively expensive (< $200
each).  


Anyone have any company names, circuit diagrams, or even
used boards to sell???  OK, how about just advice?


Thanks,

Andy


Andy Froncioni			CAIP Center Parallel Computing Lab
froncio@caip.rutgers.edu	Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ