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relto · 11 days ago

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it weekend now so i cant continue fiddling around with it (and most likely i wont have much time for fancy projects next week) but i was so excited to install a usb sniffer on the windows computer and see what the traffic to the spectrometer looks like. and then the stupid driver issue happened!!

#tütensuppe #also slightly worrying that the singular person ive talked to about this project #(one of the spectrometer users. not fluent in control system or the more techy stuff)#seems very convinced that this is going to work. which i am very much not im just playing around at this point #i can retrieve usb identification info (like serial number connection speed device model etc)#but the attempts at functional communication a) returned numbers i cant parse b) im not even sure what i DID there #i replugged it this morning but ran what i thought was an initializing command before #and it started audibly moving something inside so i think i was accessing the slits/shutter instead #in the long run it WOULD be preferable to integrate it into the control system but my skills are questionable...#aside from the driver issue it would also help w the work bc you can make properties record the history #rn apparently they have to manually record what settings they use when and if someone forgets you can throw out the data.#plus: less clunky remote control and easy integration into their data acquisition tool #it would be SO COOL but its harder than expected weh weh

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