Christine Harland Williams

From recording temperature fluctuations in caves to tracking components for warranty claims, the portable power of Palm handhelds, combined with the tiny iButton, offers an affordable, highly mobile solution that's easy to use. During the week, Pete Lindsley works as an electrical engineer for Raytheon, but on many weekends he can be found deep within a cave in Arkansas, Texas, or Kentucky exploring and conducting research. This tech-savvy "caveman" is a member and former president of the Cave Research Foundation, a publicly supported, non-profit organization dedicated, among other things, to facilitating research and conservation of caves. With a Palm m515 handheld running iTemp software from DigitSense, Lindsley collects data about changes in temperature in the caves - changes recorded over a period of time on tiny Dallas Semiconductor iButtons, which consist of ... (more)