Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: Instrumental-lib
Version: 0.7
Summary: Library with high-level drivers for lab equipment
Home-page: https://github.com/mabuchilab/Instrumental
Author: Nate Bogdanowicz
Author-email: natezb@gmail.com
License: GPLv3
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst
Provides-Extra: cameras.picam
Provides-Extra: cameras.pixelfly
Provides-Extra: cameras.tsi
Provides-Extra: cameras.uc480
Provides-Extra: daq.ni
Provides-Extra: funcgenerators.agilent
Provides-Extra: funcgenerators.rigol
Provides-Extra: funcgenerators.tektronix
Provides-Extra: laserdiodecontrollers.ilx_lightwave
Provides-Extra: lockins.sr844
Provides-Extra: lockins.sr850
Provides-Extra: motion._kinesis.ff
Provides-Extra: motion._kinesis.isc
Provides-Extra: motion._madcitylabs.nanodrive
Provides-Extra: motion._smaract.scu
Provides-Extra: motion.apt
Provides-Extra: motion.ecc100
Provides-Extra: motion.filter_flipper
Provides-Extra: motion.newmark
Provides-Extra: motion.tdc_001
Provides-Extra: multimeters.hp
Provides-Extra: powermeters.thorlabs
Provides-Extra: powermeters.thorlabs_tlpm
Provides-Extra: powersupplies.gw_instek
Provides-Extra: scopes.agilent
Provides-Extra: scopes.tektronix
Provides-Extra: spectrometers.bristol
Provides-Extra: spectrometers.thorlabs_ccs
Provides-Extra: spectrumanalyzers.rohde_schwarz
Provides-Extra: tempcontrollers.covesion
Provides-Extra: tempcontrollers.hcphotonics
Provides-Extra: lasers.femto_ferb
Provides-Extra: powermeters.newport
Provides-Extra: cameras.pco
Provides-Extra: vacuum.sentorr_mod
Provides-Extra: wavemeters.burleigh
License-File: LICENSE

Instrumental
============

Instrumental is a Python-based library for controlling lab hardware like cameras, DAQs,
oscilloscopes, spectrometers, and more. It has high-level drivers for instruments from NI,
Tektronix, Thorlabs, PCO, Photometrics, Burleigh, and others.

 **Note**
 As of version 0.7, Instrumental has dropped support for Python 2 and now requires Python 3.7+

Instrumental's goal is to make common tasks simple to perform, while still providing the
flexibility to perform complex tasks with relative ease. It also makes it easy to mess around with
instruments in the shell. For example, to list the available instruments and open one of them::

    >>> from instrumental import instrument, list_instruments
    >>> paramsets = list_instruments()
    >>> paramsets
    [<ParamSet[TSI_Camera] serial='05478' number=0>,
     <ParamSet[K10CR1] serial='55000247'>
     <ParamSet[NIDAQ] model='USB-6221 (BNC)' name='Dev1'>]
    >>> daq = instrument(paramsets[2])
    >>> daq
    <instrumental.drivers.daq.ni.NIDAQ at 0xb61...>

If you're going to be using an instrument repeatedly, save it for later::

    >>> daq.save_instrument('myDAQ')

Then you can simply open it by name::

    >>> daq = instrument('myDAQ')

Instrumental also bundles in some additional support code, including:

* A server-client implementation for controlling instruments from remote machines
* Plotting and curve fitting utilities
* Utilities for acquiring and organizing data

Instrumental makes use of NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Pint, a Python units
library. It optionally uses PyVISA/VISA and other drivers for interfacing with
lab equipment.

For install information, documentation, examples, and more, see our page on
`ReadTheDocs <http://instrumental-lib.readthedocs.org/>`_.

.. |logo| image:: images/logo-small.png
          :alt: Instrumental

If you would like to cite Instrumental, to give it more visibility to other researchers, you can cite the repository through Zenodo (DOI: `10.5281/zenodo.2556398 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2556398>`_).


