[time-nuts] LAN/USB to GP-IB/HP-IP Adapters

Brooke Clarke brooke at pacific.net
Fri Sep 11 19:31:14 EDT 2015


Hi Jim:

LabVIEW Home is the full development version that normally sells for thousands of $, but for a home user sells for $50.  
There's some watermark on the front panel, but otherwise is fully functional.  I haven't got into the Arduino because I 
don't like C.  LabVIEW is the highest level language I know of (probably because it's a graphical language) and in my 
experience very productive.  The motivation for NI may be the Maker movement, since the home version shows up on their 
Maker Hub web page where they are supporting a number of maker type hardware platforms such as Kinect One, Digilent 
Adept FPGAs, AR Drone, LabVIEW dashboard (Android - iPad) Interface, Phillips Hue, Kodi (radio & TV remotes), Leap 
Motion Controller, LEGO Mindstorms, LINX language for Arduino & ChipKIT I/O, NEST HVAC, PS4 Controller and the XBox One 
Controller with LabVIEW drivers (see maker hub libraries below).
http://www.prc68.com/I/LabVIEW.html
https://www.labviewmakerhub.com/
https://www.labviewmakerhub.com/doku.php?id=libraries:start

By using the SparkFun Inventor's Kit and HP-IB instruments I can combine high level instrumentation and bit banging.

I'm currently learning about gyroscopes and in particular north finding gyros. Leon Foucault (of pendulum fame) is also 
the father of gyroscopes in the modern physics sense (he also named them and came up with laws parallel to those of 
Newton).  A gyro is sort of a pendulum that keeps going round and round.  Prior gyro work was more in the toy realm.  As 
part of that my first project will be for testing DC PM motors where measuring voltage, current and RPM are the key 
parameters.
http://www.prc68.com/I/Gyroscopes.html
http://www.prc68.com/I/DCpmMotors.html
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-b7wcJ1xQUBF-lKfMoBPL5qyv-HtMInh
http://www.prc68.com/I/TestingDCMotors.html


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Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
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http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html
http://www.prc68.com/I/DietNutrition.html
Jim Sanford wrote:
> Just ordered Ethernet to GPIB from Prologix.biz for $199.  They also have a USB version, which a good friend has and 
> recommends. (Which is why I bought the ethernet device.....)
> Can you share info on labview home and your apps?
> Jim
> wb4gcs at amsat.org
>
>
> On 9/10/2015 5:58 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> It's taken a few months to get LabVIEW Home version working so now I'm looking for a good way to control HP-IB 
>> instruments.
>> I tried to get a computer built that would run DOS, WIN 3.1, WIN 98, WIN XP and WIN 7 (NI does not yet fully support 
>> WIN 10), but the required motherboard is not longer made so I'm looking for an adapter that runs from LAN or a USB port.
>>
>> NI has the GPIB-USB-HS+ (their latest version) so the prior version GPIB-USB-HS is available for under $200.
>>
>> Can anyone comment on what's available?
>>
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>> Have Fun,
>>
>> Brooke Clarke
>> http://www.PRC68.com
>> http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html
>> http://www.prc68.com/I/DietNutrition.html
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