Tips about talking to hardware for DebianScience
Data acquisition tools already packaged in Debian
[http://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qtdmm.html QtDMM] [http://www.mtoussaint.de/qtdmm.html upstream]
[http://packages.debian.org/libgpib0 libgpib] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00088.html boris])
[http://packages.debian.org/libcomedi0 libcomedi] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00088.html boris])
Data acquisition tools that could be considered for inclusion in Debian
MX [http://mx.iit.edu/ upstream] ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00142.html Carlo Segre]) Carlo Segre is [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00142.html working on a Debian package of it]
Tools with unofficial .deb
TANGO [http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=tango mentors] [http://www.tango-controls.org/ upstream] is an object oriented distributed control system using CORBA and is being actively developed as a collaborative effort between the Alba, Desy, Elettra, ESRF and Soleil institutes.
Q&A
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00088.html Do anyone know some good library or program to comunicate with Eurotherm Modbus (rs232 rs485) temperature controllers.]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00116.html a piece of software that runs under Linux, has a nice and usable GUI and is more or less photometer brand independent]?
Use [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00118.html python] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00119.html matplotlib] or [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00124.html wxpython]
Use [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00122.html octave]
Use [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00126.html PDL]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00142.html Take a look at] [http://mx.iit.edu MX]