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Yoel,

Thanks a lot for the information. Do you know about the IoT MeetUp and Community in Zurich: http://www.meetup.com/__ms14373150/IoT-Zurich

I've been there (as Special Guest being the only one who came from abroad;-) last year during a Global IoT Day meeting. A few cities do this again this year, but it seems IoT is everywhere and every day now, so there are fewer events on that particular day;-) 

However, your framework sounds exciting and if you're able to present it in Zurich some time I'm sure the'd be very interested to learn about it. After May I should also be in Switzerland (the German part) more often, so I would be equally keen to meet you and see the framework in action or do some Hacking around it with Eclipse and/or Java technologies in support of Science, Smart Home or Quantified Self.

Regards,

Werner Keil | Eclipse UOMo Lead, Babel Language Champion | JSR 363 Co Spec Lead | Apache Committer

Twitter @wernerkeil | @UnitAPI  | #EclipseUOMo 

Skype werner.keil | Google+ gplus.to/wernerkeil
 
 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Instrumentino - an open-source framework for Arduino based
      (but not only) scientific instruments (Yoel Koenka)


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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:09:25 +0100
From: Yoel Koenka <yoel.koenka@xxxxxxxxx>
To: science-iwg@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [science-iwg] Instrumentino - an open-source framework for
        Arduino based (but not only) scientific instruments
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Hi to all of the members in the Eclipse Science working group.

My name is Joel Koenka, a 3rd year PhD in the group of Prof. Peter Hauser
<http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/%7Ehauser/index.html>
In our group, we build Analytical Chemistry instruments ourselves, and try
to improve them with new ideas.

In the past few years, we've started using Arduino for controlling our
various instruments, and I realized the need for a GUI framework for
scientific instruments.
Currently, this market is controlled by LabView <http://www.ni.com/labview/>
(National Instruments).
This is a very powerful software, but also very expensive. On top of that,
many people find it hard to use
<https://jshoer.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/why-i-hate-despise-detest-and-loathe-labview/>,
and specifically in our research group it led to frustration.

So being an experienced programmer, I set out to build a GUI framework for
scientific instruments, that lets system developers to have powerful custom
user interfaces for their systems, while requiring the minimal programming
effort from them. This is key, as most system builders (at least in
academia) have little or no programming experience.

I called it *Instrumentino* <https://github.com/yoelk/Instrumentino> to
imply it's meant to control Arduino based instruments, but I wrote it in a
more general way, so other microcontrollers can be used instead (such as
RaspberryPi, RedPitaya, etc.).
Attached to this email are two article (one already published and the
second to be published soon) about *Instrumentino*.

The reason I'm writing to you, is that I want to keep developing
*Instrumentino*, making it the open-source alternative to LabView, and to
enable instrument developers have good and effective GUI programs to
control their experiments.
To do this, I need some help. I've been developing *Instrumentino* alone
for quite some time, and being a busy PhD student, I realize I need help.

I've heard about the Science working group of the Eclipse foundation by
chance, during a scientific conference, where I met one of the guys behind
OpenChrom <https://openchrom.net/>, another project under the Science
working group umbrella.
I think *Instrumentino* can fit nicely to this framework, and I hope to
find other open-hardware enthusiasts to join me in perfecting *Instrumentio*
.
Also, I hope to be able to integrate code pieces from other projects,
adding capabilities to the system.

So I propose this as a project in the science working group. Is anyone
interested?

Thanks and good day,
Joel
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