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The Vernier LabPro and REALbasic Interfacing

Issue: 3.1 (September/October 2004)
Author: William H. Murray and Chris H. Pappas
Author Bio: William H. Murray is the department chairman of the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Broome Community College in Binghamton, N.Y. Chris H. Pappas is the department chairman of the Computer Studies Department at the same college. BCC is part of the SUNY system of New York Colleges. Together, Murray and Pappas have coauthored dozens of magazine articles and over 50 books on assembly language, Windows, C, C++, and C#. A recent paradigm shift at the college has brought the two departments together to build an eighteen unit Mac lab for a new Simulation program that is bound to make use of devices such as the LabPro.
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3109.sit Updated: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 4:26 PM

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In the last issue of REALbasic Developer, we investigated a number of interesting ways in which the Vernier LabPro can be connected to your Mac's serial or USB port and programmed to perform a number of data input feats using the REALbasic language. The data collection methods discussed in the previous article included how to take temperature, voltage, and current measurements using REALbasic programming examples that allow you to plot data, calculate the power used in circuits, and more.
The first article just touched on the number of interesting sources of data that you can collect with a LabPro -- but there are many, many more. Table 1 shows the current set of Vernier Software and Technology probes and sensors available for the LabPro.
With thirty-nine probes and sensors, the data collection possibilities are almost endless. Each probe or sensor can collect data from the LabPro and send it right into your REALbasic application -- just as we did with the programs that were developed in the previous article.

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