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Cool platform, just came across this when researching something else...We use MQTT at work which is a message subscription system...the idea is you have a "Broker" which allows systems / users to set-up subscriptions to the "Broker", other systems then post data to the "Broker" and the "Broker" distributes the messages to subscribers.

Its a very leight weight system and works very well, they're are MQTT implementations around for lots of platforms including mBed. You could implement MQTT to allow the system to publish results to a server then subscribers could get the results.

 

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The DS-300 is serial only, the only way you could use it on USB would be to get a USB to serial adapter, but then your back to square one as the USB adapter would just work as a serial port.

The correct settings for a DS-300 on the serial port are:
57600, 8 databits, 1 stopbit and no parity.

I agree with you the manual is quite difficult to interpret. There are a few packages available that support the DS-300, including my own (SRS). Unfortunately you will still need to configure the box correctly before you can use any of them.

I would suggest starting a new thread in this forum more specifically titled as I would imagine the author of this thread wouldn't want it to be hi-jacked.

 

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From the other thread it sounds like you've already done some Android development, there are plenty of low cost Android tablets out there < £80 GBP, if you only want something for display purposes these are fine, they aren't so good as a touch screen tho...

 

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stay clear of windows ce, it's completely different to win xd, vista and 7. It's as different from other versions of windows internally as windows is from android. From a programmers point of view the API is similar.