Thursday, April 28, 2011

Help with LabVIEW

We have a "homemade" pulsed-field rotating gel electrophoresis system that was controlled with a TRS-80 (Trash80) computer. Yes, this system is old, an antique. The TRS-80 has finally "died", it no longer will read the program from the tape drive. The rest of the gel unit is fine. We now have a PC laptop and a USB 6009 DAQ from Natl instruments to interface with the gel unit. The hardware (connections from gel unit to 6009) has been done. I took a short course (3 hr) on LabView and initially it seemed like I could do the programming myself. In fact I probably could, but it would take forever and a day. Thus, I am wondering if anyway well-versed in LabView programming would be willing to help me.