zaber-device 0.1

Interface to Zaber motorized linear slides.

This Python package (zaber_device) creates a class named ZaberDevice, which contains an instance of serial_device2.SerialDevice and adds methods to it to interface to Zaber motorized linear slides.

Authors:

Peter Polidoro <[e-mail]>

License:

BSD

Example Usage:

from zaber_device import ZaberDevice
dev = ZaberDevice() # Automatically finds device if one available
dev = ZaberDevice('/dev/ttyUSB0') # Linux
dev = ZaberDevice('/dev/tty.usbmodem262471') # Mac OS X
dev = ZaberDevice('COM3') # Windows
dev.get_serial_number()
1126493049
dev.get_balance_data()
['XS204', 'Excellence', '220.0090', 'g']
dev.get_weight_stable()
[-0.0082, 'g'] #if weight is stable
None  #if weight is dynamic
dev.get_weight()
[-0.6800, 'g', 'S'] #if weight is stable
[-0.6800, 'g', 'D'] #if weight is dynamic
dev.zero_stable()
True  #zeros if weight is stable
False  #does not zero if weight is not stable
dev.zero()
'S'   #zeros if weight is stable
'D'   #zeros if weight is dynamic
devs = ZaberDevices()  # Automatically finds all available devices
dev = devs[0]