FAQs
Reach out to Bored Owl and we can talk to you about your sensor and measurement application requirements. We can guide you through a possible configuration of the Eddie Data Hub to meet your requirements. We are always happy to help scientists translate what you need into technical requirements. We can provide a custom quotation to meet your requirements with the Eddie Data Hub.
Want more information on how Eddie works, check out our Case Studies page and see how Eddie has been implemented to collect and use data in different applications.
How do I know if the Eddie Data Hub is suitable for my sensors and measurement application?
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How do I select Eddie modules?
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Getting started is simple. Reach out through our contact form or schedule a call—we’ll give you further information so you can make an informed choice. We are always happy to help scientists translate what you need into technical requirements. We can provide a custom quotation to meet your requirements with the Eddie Data Hub.
Want more information on how Eddie works, check out our Case Studies page and see how Eddie has been implemented to collect and use data in different applications.
What makes you different?
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We are scientists and engineers, we have been right where you are now. Trying to get a data collection solution with constraints like time and cost and we understand your frustration and we want to provide a solution.
Bored Owl has the expertise to provide a fully engineered solution for your measurement application while allowing you to get on with what you do best, data analysis and creating innovative solutions to the worlds needs.
By making our Eddie Data Hub customisable and reconfigurable we can give you a value for money solution, which you can keep using as your needs change. We are designing for scientists, and we want to make it easy in terms of the learning curve required to get up and running on Eddie so that’s a driving goal behind our design choices.
How can I contact you?
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
Want a same day response then give us a call today!
How can I get access to documentation?
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We are working busily on documentation so we will provide further information via this web page.
Want more information on how Eddie works, check out our Case Studies page and see how Eddie has been implemented to collect and use data in different applications.
How can I access data from my sensors using Eddie?
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Do data analysis the way you want...that’s right you get your sensor data from Eddie with words (which we create for you in our stack based language K4 and are held in a library for you to access) then you transform that data in your own preferred data analysis environment, whether that’s simply Excel, Matlab or some Python code.
View data as its collected on the dashboard we’ve created in the KAT terminal. KAT is the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) we’ve developed for interacting with K4.
Dashboards are built from a palette of widgets such as digital readouts, oscilloscope displays, meters, buttons and so-on. Dashboards work by connecting a widget to a “signal”. The K4 system running on EDDIE can periodically send a signal object through the serial port to KAT. These objects are not visible to the user in the terminal window but are instead routed to the dashboard for it to handle. Each signal has a number and a data payload. Multiple widgets can if necessary respond to the same signal. For an early example of the dashboard see our case study for an environmental chamber application of Eddie.
Tell me more about Bored Owl, why are you making Eddie?
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Bored Owl are making Eddie to help scientists and engineers and students in these disciplines. We have come from backgrounds in supporting and building scientific and industrial instrumentation, there is more info about us on our webpage www.boredowl.com.au
To find out more about the why behind Eddie visit our About page.
What tools are available for me to work on Eddie’s software?
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To make it easy to work with our K4 software when you need to, we’ve created KAT.
KAT is the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) we’ve developed for interacting with K4.
KAT is a Java GUI program, it includes history for the terminal line. This allows you to scroll backward though K4 code and recall it - providing you don’t restart KAT.
KAT also includes the ability to transfer the history into another text panel we called the block buffer. We are working on a code editor with this buffer. Any line or group of lines in the block buffer can be sent to EDDIE at a click. If EDDIE crashes, we can re-boot it from the block buffer.
KAT also has the ability to keep blocks of code in a database library. The library is kept up to date as you type, and each block can be named.
For an early example of the dashboard see our case study for an environmental chamber application of Eddie.
What tools are available for me to interact with my sensor data using Eddie?
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To make it easy to work with your sensor data we’ve created an Eddie dashboard called KAT.
KAT is the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) we’ve developed for interacting with K4.
With KAT you can view your sensor data as its collected.
You can customise your KAT dashboard as we’ve designed it from palettes of widgets. These widgets can include: digital readouts, oscilloscope displays, meters, buttons and so-on.
To display data on a widget you connect it to a “signal”. The K4 system running on EDDIE can periodically send a signal object through the serial port to KAT. These objects are not visible to the user in the terminal window but are instead routed to the dashboard for it to handle. Each signal has a number and a data payload. Multiple widgets can if necessary respond to the same signal. For an early example of the dashboard see our case study for an environmental chamber application of Eddie.
Eddie also allows you to perform data analysis on your data using your preferred coding method or just using Excel. You simply access the sensor data from Eddie with words (which we create for you in our stack based language K4 and are held in a library for you to access) then you transform that data in your own preferred data analysis environment, whether that’s simply Excel, Matlab or some Python code.
For more information please contact us. We’d love to hear how you want to interact with your data.