What kind of interface is used by lab equipment to connect to the computer? 
Is it some kind of serial port? Or each vendor has its own interface?

El domingo, 2 de marzo de 2014 05:44:58 UTC+1, Trevor Tomesh escribió:
>
> Hey Jason, 
>
> Python also has a serial library, so we could certainly use that. 
>
> As far as use-cases go, I see it being used to collect and analyse 
> real-time data -- say, in a physics lab. As an undergrad student in physics 
> I found myself having to write my own programs after collecting data in 
> order to sort it and plot it -- generally, that meant having three 
> different windows open to do pretty much one single thing. With this, the 
> collecting, sorting and plotting needs are all rolled into one. To my 
> knowledge there's really not anything like that out there -- despite what 
> Stephen Wolfram wants you to believe. 
>
> Trevor
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Jason B. Hill 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> There is a libarduino C library [1], among others, that could potentially 
>> be used via Cython and modularized for Python (and subsequently Sage) use.
>>
>> I'm not very experienced with Arduino or other microcontrollers, but I do 
>> something similar (using existing/tested C libs in Cython for Python module 
>> construction) on a daily basis for my job with SCSI enclosure devices. That 
>> setup has turned out to work incredibly well.
>>
>> I'm not sure how useful controller boards are from within Sage. I'd 
>> probably want to see some use cases.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> [1]: https://code.google.com/p/libarduino/
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Trevor Tomesh <[email protected]<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Certainly, but the python crowd aren't exactly the most friendly to work 
>>> with some of the time. 
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Miguel Angel Marco 
>>> <[email protected]<javascript:>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> This sounds like an addition that could sure be useful for some uses of 
>>>> sage. Although, i am surprised that such a thing does not exists already 
>>>> in 
>>>> the python ecosystem. Doesn't it makes much sense to build it as a python 
>>>> module that could, then, be imported from sage?
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