DSC_UI

UI and real-time equipment control software for a Differential Scanning Calorimetry Prototype System, as part of my undergraduate physics research.

DSC_UI: UI and control systems for DSC prototype system

Copyright (C) 2019 Christian Kunis

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

You may contact the author at [email protected]

NOTE: This project is currently a work-in-progress. Not all features have been implemented and all code may be subject to change.

New version available

This version of the software is now deprecated and the project has be remade for use with Arduino rather than the NI DAQ Box.

The new version can be found here: https://github.com/NerdyGriffin/DSC_v2

Setup Instructions

Plug in the DAQ Box to the computer via a USB cable. Run the command daqlist("ni") in the Command Window to ensure the DAQ Box is detected and the NI drivers/software are installed and running.

If the NI-DAQmx driver is not installed, then the output of this commands will say Unable to detect 'ni' hardware: In this case, read through the output message in the Command Window and follow the Add-On Explorer link provided in the last sentence of that message. This should open the appropriate page of the Add-On Explorer window where you can click Install to allow MATLAB to install the necessary drivers.

Graphic UI Instructions

To run the Graphical User Interface (GUI), run the file Run_DSC_GUI.m or cd to the project folder and type Run_DSC_GUI in the MATLAB command window.

Command-Line UI Instructions

WARNING: The CLI is not yet full implemented. It is recommended that you use the GUI for any and all testing or experiments.

To run the Command-Line User Interface (CLI), type Run_DSC_CLI in the MATLAB command window

To run an experiment with the CLI, type "start daq box" to start the daq box sessions, then type "start experiment" to start the experiment.

The program will allow you to save the data to an Excel file when the experiment is complete