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shoaib-mustafaShoaib Mustafa 08/11/2024 at 20:010 Comments

Happy to share that i've made some promising progress towards accessing instruments supporting usb with python. I call the project "Instrument Orchestra", Instrument Orchestra is now hosted on GitHub with its own repository. https://github.com/manhoosbilli1/Instrument_Orchestra I've provided a detailed step by step installation guide for first experiment.

I tried about 20 packages and different softwares to access this. thought why reinvent the wheel but none worked and almost no one was using this simple approach of accessing the instrument through serial. having some experience in electronics it was easy setting it up but installing the drivers were a pain.

My setup is going to be a sweet one with me remotely getting data from the instrument. this will allow for long lasting testing sessions even when the lab is closed. only have to have my remote laptop attached to instruments and powered on.

Next step would be integrating all 3 instruments with this software and creating a gui with it. i think a live graph of each instruments data would be nice.

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