LabExe

LabExe is a program intended to control experimental setups such as in physics laboratories.
The structure of the program is highly modular and allows plugins to be written and used in a flexible and interactive way.

If you are looking for powerful software that lets you think more about your experiment and less about programming languages and equipment, then LabExe is the framework for you. The modular structure of LabExe allows you to drag-and-drop basic plugins, both device-based as well as program-based, to intuitively design new experiments daily:

-Using the Camera Plugin, drag-and-drop any number of USB-controlled cameras to monitor your experiment simultaneously from many view-points.
-Drag-and-drop any number of Fitting Plugins to perform real-time analysis on the information coming from your USB cameras.
-Using the Numerical Expression Plugin, perform complex calculations on information coming from real-time from your experiment, such as through the fits performed on camera images.

To start using the LabExe:
- create a new Workbench (the canvas for creating an experiment, basically a tablet onto which you drag and drop tools),
- open the Device Shelf (repository of available tools),
- and drag Devices (Camera Plugin, Phidget Plugin) or e-Devices (Numerical Expression Plugin, Plotter Plugin, Data Fitter Plugin).
Many devices and e-devices produce (and accept) numerical values, such as the fit results of the Data Fitter plugin. Every value displayed in the LabExe can also be drag-and-dropped in other parts of the program where parameters are needed, e.g. in a numerical expression (see the LabExe Numerical Expression Plugin). Instances of the displayed values will then live and update in various part of the program.
This makes it very easy to acquire measured values, compute complex tasks with them, and send them to an output (e.g. plotting or file logging), or any number of cascading, complex tasks afterward.

Several video tutorials will be available on this page on the next program update.