[time-nuts] Making a Raspberry Pi NTP server without soldering

[David J Taylor]

David and Chris,

Thanks for the comments.

While my interest does include use as NTP server it is not entirely limited 
to that application, for example data collection and possibly RTL-SDR based 
ADS-B.

I have spent much time searching for information on both devices and as 
David suggested, the Beaglebone Black has a bit more going for it 
technically but the raspberry PI has a much larger user base.

I am considering one or the other or perhaps both to supplement my use of 
Arduino's and in light of the fairly recent announcement of the newest 
member of the Arduino stable in partnership with Intel I am wondering 
whether to wait for the new Aruduino offering (more $ but not much) or 
whether the PI or Beaglebone will do.

See here for info on the Arduino Intel Galileo 
http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo

Speaking of Arduino, I have still not posted my sketch for my very simple 
NTP client clock display. I should have known that when I dug out the code 
and started to clean it up a bit before posting that I would end up spending 
more time fussing over it. Soon.

Cheers, Graham ve3gtc
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Graham,

You well know that something better will always be along in six month's 
time, so why not wait six months and use it.  Oh, but something better still 
will be available then!  So you never get anything actually done!  HI!

I expect you may have seen my notes on an ADS-B program (written by Malcolm 
Robb):

  http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/dump1090.html

and on monitoring ambient temperature:

  http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/monitoring.html#ambient

so those may prove of interest.  There's obviously work to do on the 
temperature monitoring as the program doesn't trap either no data returned 
(0°C) or max value returned (85°C IIRC), but it demonstrates a capability. 
To me there's something good about having one device per function, but the 
Pi is capable of more than that.

Looking forward to your Arduino code!

73,
David GM8ARV
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