Data collector and stage positioning  (RS232)

Introduction:

Program aimed to position the micro-stepper stage and collect data from the power-meter.

It is possible to use two kinds of power-meter made by Hamamatsu Photonics and USHIO company.

Necessary components:

To run the program the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package is necessary to be installed on the computer.

Program is packed using zip method. Folder with the program and necessary libraries can be extracted to any location.

Program is still in development phase, so some features can be missing or can be not completely implemented. However, it is already possible to use the program to collect data and export them in several formats as used by MS Excel, Gnuplot and as a matrix data.

Download:

Version 0.92 with some improvements… in here.

There is also some simple instruction manual.

Operation:

At this stage it is necessary in the “Settings” menu to choose all the fields and set properly device address for stepper and power meter as well as desired borders within which the data will be collected.