Lesson 10 - LabVIEW and the Raspberry Pi Pico Using the SCPI labTool

21 Aug 2023

The Pico SCPI labTool (PST) allows you to connect your PC to equipment to control and monitor all sorts of things. It runs on a Raspberry Pico.
In this post: functionality, and how to use SCPI or LabVIEW to program the device.

Click here to read a detailed discussion on programming the Pico SCPI labTool.

This video will show you how to get started with the SCPI labTool.

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Jan Cumps over 1 year ago +1

You can find the 2 downloads we are using in the video, at the end of the detailed discussion that Randall mentions. In the Downloads section. You will also find the documentation of the LabVIEW driver…

cbohra00627 over 1 year ago

This was a nice series of tutorials. Enjoyed the quizzes too!
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Jan Cumps over 1 year ago

You can find the 2 downloads we are using in the video, at the end of the detailed discussion that Randall mentions. In the Downloads section.
You will also find the documentation of the LabVIEW driver components there, and the SCPI commands reference.
If you use the driver, there's no need to learn the Pico SCPI labTool SCPI commands. The Virtual Instrument (VI) blocks will handle that for you.

Example: read a Pico analogue input:
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rscasny over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz

And I appreciate every minute you spent creating it!
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shabaz over 1 year ago

One would struggle to say "Candyman" much more than 150 times, compared to how long it takes to create and use the Pico SCPI labTool with LabVIEW..

This was in real-time, no steps shortened.

It takes longer to make coffee!
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