Bloom Desktop Pilot

Introduction

This is a pilot project designed to interface with a camera and DAQ (Data Acquisition System) from an Electron-React application.

Requirements

This project is divided into three main parts: the Pylon camera interface, the National Instruments DAQ (NI-DAQ) control, and the Electron desktop app.

You'll need to install some Python and Node packages to run these three components.

1. Create the bloom-desktop environment: mamba create --name bloom-desktop
2. Activate the environment: mamba activate bloom-desktop
3. Install conda requirements: mamba install python=3.8 nodejs nidaqmx
4. Install pip requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt

NI-DAQ Control

For controlling the NI-DAQ, you need to install some additional software from National Instruments.

LabVIEW Runtime Engine:

• Install the latest version of LabVIEW RTE 64-bit from LabVIEW Runtime. The installation comes with the NI Package Manager, which is required for managing and updating National Instruments software.

National Instruments DAQmx Driver:

• Install the latest NI-DAQmx driver from NI-DAQmx Download. The driver comes with NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), which is used to configure NI hardware devices.

Basler Pylon

To capture images from the camera, you'll need to install additional software from Basler.

Pylon

• Install the latest version of Pylon from Basler.