Thursday, December 4, 2014

Catch-up

As I mentioned yesterday, I am travelling through a rabbit hole of work with the goal of debugging my experiments.  Before I can focus on my experimental set-up, I am determined to improve the methods behind the scenes.  It's a mentally challenging job because even though you're making progress, in the back of your mind you know you're not even to the "important" or "hard" work. 

That said, today was a fun day and although I still need to focus on the experiments and collecting data, I am very pleased with my progress today.  So what kind of work was it?  Programming.  Pure code.  Specifically Python code on two levels, a user interface (using the PySide Python bindings for Qt development) and a back-end to give the UI functionality.  Additionally I worked on the code that sits on my instrument, which is currently compiled using through the Arduino IDE.

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