{"id":375,"date":"2015-11-08T04:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/?p=375"},"modified":"2015-12-23T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:26:09","slug":"new-hardware-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"New hardware controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have added some new hardware controllers which operate components used in optical setups. Together with the built-in spectrometer controls you can now automate optical measurements. All hardware controllers are objects in the<strong> list of spectrometers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>These are the new controllers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WOSP shutter: Controls the motion of a servo motor through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinkerforge.com\/en\">TinkerForge <\/a>servo brick. Can be used to control a mechanical shutter to block a light source. Or move something else &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>WOSP traverse:\u00a0Controls a stepper motor through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinkerforge.com\/en\">TinkerForge <\/a>stepper brick. Can be used to control the motion of a traverse system driven by a stepper motor. Or some other kind of motion &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>WOSP color sensor: Operates a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinkerforge.com\/en\">TinkerForge\u00a0<\/a>color sensor for rapid measurements of brightness and color. This device does not record color coordinates L*, a* and b* correctly, but does rather rough measurements of RGB values. Very useful in combination with triggers (see below) &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>WOSP camera: Connects to any webcam of your Windows system and shows the image in real time<\/li>\n<li>MINT traverse: Controls the motion of a traverse system addressing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baldormotion.com\/products\/motioncontrol\/overview.asp\">MINT controller<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, objects called &#8216;WOSP triggers&#8217; can automatically start scripts if a pre-defined condition becomes true. Triggers are used together with the automation timer. You can, for example, record a reflectance spectrum at each timer event. The average reflectance will be almost zero when there is no sample and higher once a sample is present. A trigger can now use the average reflectance value to verify the presence of a sample and execute a sample measurement with automatic saving of the recorded spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have added some new hardware controllers which operate components used in optical setups. Together with the built-in spectrometer controls you can now automate optical measurements. All hardware controllers are objects in the list of spectrometers. These are the new controllers: WOSP shutter: Controls the motion of a servo motor through a TinkerForge servo brick. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[34,85,86,88,73,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtheiss.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}