A new post is long overdue so here it is.
As now I am an happy owner of a nice National Instruments GPIB PCI card, barely enough GPIB cables (you never have enough cables and that’s a sad truth), a Solartron 7150 and an HP 3456A it is time to do some measures and have some fun.
Thanks to gpib-linux the GPIB card works perfectly and I have already connected the Solartron 7150 and started to test it. I already wrote a first, simple script in perl to set the 7150 up and start logging the measurements.
When that script will be ready it will be the HP 3456A turn as that machine is a little bit more complex to set up.
Having the scripts working is a step in the right direction but it will not be enough to just take some measurement. At least I am going to log the temperature at which the measurements are done so I will need a temperature sensor. It will be a good chance to use an MSP430 board but I will have to write some firmware for it. I think that Energia will be more than enough for now.
But what exactly I am going to measure?
Well… I will start with measuring a short then I will go to something more interesting: a little board with a REF102B.
After that, considering that I am waiting for some LM399, the sky is the limit…
A.C.
