Re: App blueprint, advice please!

["Michael R. Head" <burner suppressingfire org>]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 21:27 -0500, Patrick wrote:
> Sorry for the long email but I really could use some help. I sell used 
> lab instruments to people doing great work researching cures. The closed 
> source programs to control and process data from these instruments often 
> cost 20K. The people providing the software really abuse their legal 
> positions. Writing an open source replacement has become an obsession 
> for me.
>
> I want to build an App to control dozens or even hundreds of instruments 
> using different ports/buses (GPIB, Serial, Parallel etc) and I want to 
> do some fairly complex data processing after. Then I want to be able to 
> save the data in a database and/or in numerous formats.

Wow.... I recently (2 years ago) built a similar project on a
work-for-hire gig... I used GPIB, Digital I/O, signal generators and
processors. 

I'd be happy to give you some pointers. Email me off list and we can
discuss it.

mike

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