Yeah, I agree with you on a lot of those points, and I've been enjoying working on some solutions to these problems, but the going is slow.
I have a first-draft of a temperature / humidity logger which works over USB. I plan on including this in round two, or maybe even just distributing the boards to forum members so that we all have environment logging ready at hand.
https://github.com/pepaslabs/lab-loggerMy current mission in life is to bring a cheap and open GPIB solution to this community. We have a wonderful gift of all of this cheap used test & measurement gear on ebay, yet most hobbyists are ham-strung by lack of a solid PC connection. And if you can't log data, it is pretty difficult to be a volt-nut.
(My latest weapon in this crusade has just arrived from OSHPark -- I made a "spy" board which allows me to insert logic analyzers into a GPIB connection).
I'm still working on a plotting solution. Muxr's python-based script is a great start -- I just need to figure out how to make Pandas process two independent CSV files at once.
My hope is that in a couple of months (by the time round 1 is finished?), this little club will be in a much better spot with regard to solutions to all of these challenges.
(A perhaps more distant pipe-dream is to start a youtube channel and make some videos about metrology and volt-nutting. Perhaps I could start by making a video guide to the LTZ1000 thread. That should keep me busy for a while...
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