Activity for Mike Barwise
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Mike Barwise posted a comment on discussion General discussion
Boundless Brainpower lost its Java guru due to the pandemic, so we're now seeking an enthusiastic volunteer to help advance Skippity from the current prototype to a fully fledged application. The volunteer will be the primary coder but involvement will be much more interesting than that, embracing the full development cycle including collaboration on functional design, performance optimisation, testing and documentation. All English speakers with at least couple of years of Java software development...
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I've recently been asked why Skippity doesn't include data analysis tools, like programs such as LabVIEW or VEE do. Well, this is intentional for a couple of good reasons. The first and most important (based on many years experience of conducting experiments) is that it's a bad idea to start analysing your data before it's all been acquired. Doing this practically never leads to correct interpretation of the data set as a whole, and at worst, a partial analysis can tempt one to modify the experiment...
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Good news! The instrument close sequence issue on STOP has been fixed in Skippity V1.11, available now.
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We have been alerted to a possible, although remote, hazard when the STOP statement or the stop selection of the PAUSE statement is invoked. It may also occur if a script auto-aborts due to time out of a query command for which the T flag is set. Regardless of the order in which instruments are opened within your script, under these conditions they close in an arbitrary sequence defined by the Java method currently used for close. If both power supplies and signal sources are being controlled, AND...
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increased length of account names
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new skills for profiles
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Hi Klaus Ian (my developer) tells me you have to install the Ubuntu fonts on your development machine in order for Eclipse to find them. They're available in the lib directory of the source.
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Hi Klaus re your font problem, I'm looking into this and will get back to you as soon as my developer has responded. Kind regards Mike
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Hi Klaus Thanks for using Skippity. The specification of the serial ports depends on what platform you're running Skippity on. The port drop down in the instrument definition dialog reflects the ports as defined in skippity.ini (it doesn't do discovery to avoid dynamic conflicts), and the default from install is the three standard PC serial ports. Page 6 of the manual describes how to define your required serial ports for Windows, Linux and OSX by editing the ProgramOptions section of Skippity.ini...
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I'm delighted to announce Version 1.10 of Skippity, representing a significant functional upgrade. Skippity can now capture arbitrary binary byte stream responses from instruments (responses that don't have a defined response terminator) over times as long as eleven days from a single query command. This opens the door to control of devices such as remote environmental monitors that report back at intervals once triggered to start operating. It also allows you to control devices that, for example,...
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Welcome to the Skippity implementations forum. This is where you can share your successes in using Skippity. We hope you'll feel free to describe experiments you have conducted and let everyone know about instruments and devices you've controlled using Skippity, particularly less usual applications or devices.
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This forum is for reports of software issues and bugs in Skippity only. If you have a query or problem relating to an instrument or device or a question about configuring Skippity, please post it in the General discussion forum.
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Welcome to Boundless Brainpower and our first offering - Skippity. We hope it will open the door for you to conduct fascinating experiments, particularly those that would not be practicable if performed entirely manually. This forum is for general discussion, including questions about using Skippity. If you have an interesting experiment you'd like to share with the community, please post details of it in Implementations. We're also very keen to hear about instruments and devices you have used Skippity...
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