BBN Technologies has released v0.0.1 of Instruments.jl, a package for controlling laboratory instruments through Julia over TCPIP/GPIB/USB/Serial.
https://github.com/BBN-Q/Instruments.jl <https://github.com/BBN-Q/Cliffords.jl> The package is wrapper around the NI-VISA library (which needs to be separately installed) similar to PyVISA and has some starts towards making it easier to write custom instrument drivers. We've successfully used it for a few simple data taking runs in the lab. You'll need some instruments to talk to play with the package but we'd love to hear from other experimental physicists or engineers who have suggestions for what they'd like to see.
