Subject: Raspberry Pi and NI 6009
In-Reply-To: <50CAAAAB.1000502@labuseful.com>
Message-ID: <CCF0AF44.53FB8%Christophe.Salzmann@epfl.ch>
If you want to interface iPad/iPod you can try the redpark serial adapter
http://www.redpark.com/c2ttl.html
We use it to control a quadcopter with an iPod touch 4G.
Note that this cable is NOT compatible with the latest iPhone5/iPad/iPod
connector.
Chris
On 12/14/12 5:27 AM, "LabUseful.com" <jack at labuseful.com> wrote:
> Vito,
>
> Maybe I'm missing something. How exactly can one make a physical
> connection with the iPad, when it *only* has the apple dock connector?.
> It lacks a USB port (this is not an oversight by apple).(it also doesn't
> have an SD card slot)
>
> The Raspberry provides the network connection layer that the USB-6009
> lacks. TCP/IP stack is not lean so it would not be an easy feat to get
> it to run within the DAQ. Now LabJACK seems able to do this for about
> $300.00 - Include a Ethernet port AND USB.
>
> I and others I've worked with have looked at an iPad remote interface
> for LabVIEW based products. The Web browser is not the solution, it's
> quirky and depends on browser plugins. Even with Windows, there are
> display and update issues with IE and the LabVIEW web server, that can
> be show stoppers.
>
> Other Web Browser short comings (IMO)
> 1. Why would I want to puke the same screen that's running on a 1920 x
> 1024 monitor on a 7" screen?.
> 2. Why would I want to offer access to the 'verbose' version of program
> remotely on a touchscreen?.
> 3. One needs to consider and design both interfaces, appropriate for
> the method and requirements of that interface.
>
> I've done countless applications that have a GUI and an API and even
> developed a remote GUI that works thru the program API. They rarely are
> the same interface.
>
> I think the solution will be a proper 'drag-n-drop' GUI builder native
> for XOS. This can then communicate via TCP/IP and UDP.
>
> Regards
> Jack Hamilton
>
>
>
>> I assume John Brohan wanted to be able to program the Raspberry Pi with it in
>> turn being connected to an NI 6009. The product in question does not allow
>> any programming on the Raspberry Pi. Instead the Raspberry Pi just takes the
>> NI 6009's data and formats it suitable for display on an iPad running Data
>> Dashboard, using fixed C code on the Pi. For the announced product, it would
>> have been better to put the software on the iPad and have it directly connect
>> to the NI 6009. The Raspberry Pi adds no value.
>>
>> For a fuller discussion, see
>> http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/LabVIEW-for-Raspberry-Pi/idi-p/
>> 2082026 (take a look at the comments towards the end).
>>
>> Now if the Raspberry Pi was running LabVIEW and connected to a NI 6009 ...
>> that would be an exciting product.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but what is shown in
>> https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-25806 could have been done without
>> the Raspberry Pi (just NI 6009 and iPad). After all, NI has expertise in
>> programming the iPad with it's Data Dashboard product. Why have three boxes
>> when two will do?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vito
>>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:33:18 -0000
>> From: "Tom Hawkins" <Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com>
>> To: <info-labview at lists.infolabview.org>
>> Subject: RE: Raspberry Pi and NI 6009
>> Message-ID:
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>> John Brohan <jbrohan at tradersmicro.com> wrote a few weeks ago:
>>
>>> An ideal combination would be the NI 6009 14-Bit, 48 kS/s Low-Cost
>>> Multifunction DAQ for about $400 and a Raspberry Pi for about $50.
>> You asked*, NI answered:
>>
>> https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-25806
>>
>> * Well I guess they may have had it in the works already, but if you can
>> get it to work with whatever software you were planning to use on the Pi
>> then it is what you were looking for!
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