Re: Arduino + MCP9600 + thermocouple help needed

"Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m17chyjyd1.fsf@void.com...

A classic MC68000 text mentioned some problems are best solved by
leaving them and having a beer and getting back to them the next day
or something like that, it definitely works for me pondering on a
conundrum.

Yes... ... ...
And also what these days do to you - well certainly to me.  If you can
relate to it - that was the point I was at - "you've grubbed-around,
have seen some of the concepts and learned some of the words - now look
up and outwards and step clear because you cannot do this to yourself".
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Have you ever studied a foreign language? At first it's totally unfamiliar and mysterious but after two weeks or so of "drinking from the fire hose" it starts to make sense and you have developed a mental filing system to associate and store new words and concepts.
My first year French class was conducted entirely in French for the first few weeks, the Total Immersion system, and it did work for us.
https://www.gviusa.com/blog/three-of-the-best-ways-to-experience-total-language-immersion/
Once you have learned one communications system picking up others will be much easier, since you have seen the problems and a solution to them. Modern tech is very much computers communicating with each other, as in a car, and the Internet of Things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
Actually the Air Force began it in the early 60's with a network for parts order control that soon grew into the secure global computer data network I maintained in the early 1970s, when hard drives were the size of washing machines. Teletypes had been interconnected much earlier but without computers. The terminals themselves automatically exchanged information about their status.
This is an unclassified description of an earlier system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY
The compression technique works quite well in a properly tuned system, and gives a data rate below the upper frequency range of the transmitted voice. Did you know that most of what you say is random white noise?
The DEW Line of the 1950's was the first big attempt to network computers, to send radar data from remote northern stations over phone lines to interception control centers. No single company understood radar and computers and communications, and the non-profit civilian Mitre Corporation was the result of several less successful attempts to define and manage the large systems engineering. The academics who had contributed to defeating the Nazis were less interested in fighting the Communists.