Data Logging Software for PocketPC?

X43B asks: "I don't have a story associated with this but just a question. Does anyone know of any data logging software for the PocketPC? What I'm talking about is something analogous to Hyperterminal for windows. The data logging market for engineering instrumentation, especially with a premium on small size and weight, is relatively sparse. The hardware on PocketPCs seems ideal for this type of application. I'm looking for anything from proprietary software to open source, even perhaps the just a little direction of what to use to do this on my own (all I know is Fortran, C, and Matlab). Thanks!"

Comments

Zaurus?

[Anonymous Coward]

For ruggedized devices, Microsoft cleverly persuaded all major vendors except Psion to switch to PocketPC - so, even though WinCE _really_ sucks, you don't have much choice.

For non-rugged devices, both Palm and the Zaurus have RS232 serial cables and are simple to program in C. Psion idiotically left the market, despite having the best devices and OS overall. The zaurus is linux, with a wealth of terminal clients just waiting to be recompiled for ARM. Minicom is already on it and I can personally attest it works fine. Sharp's own serial cable is annoyingly bulky, though, and restricts the keyboard unnecessarily. The zaurus also has a CF slot, and thus, if you have a custom interface, it's easy enough to kludge into it even if you have to write the device driver from scratch in C (easier + usually less legally frought* than writing the equivalent device driver for wince).

* remember, the GPL is copyright-based only matters if you redistribute sources - the MS license is contract law and applies even if you don't.

TeraTerm

[Chelloveck]

TeraTerm is a darned fine open source serial/telnet program for Windows. It's supposedly been ported to WinCE, though it seems there hasn't been any development in the past couple years. Might still be worth checking out, though.