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interface miniLAB 1008 to Excel spreadsheet?

I'd like to interface my miniLAB 1008, a Measurement Computing USB data acqusition system, to Windows Excel.

What I'd like to see is something that would make data from the daq show up in particular cells in a spreadsheet and other cells that would serve as controls such as scale factors and output data to be sent to the daq from a spreadsheet.

My guess is that the "universal library" supplied with the miniLAB could make this happen. However, my experience and programming skills are weak enough that I don't know exactly how to get started.

Is my guess that it is possible to do something like this reasonable? Has someone already done something similar? I might be able to figure it all out for myself, given enough time, but a single peek at the answer is worth a thousand guesses.

Anybody here who could give me any encouragement?

Jim

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jmeyer
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Jim assuming your USB hardware works via a virtual com port you may be able to get something useful from the links below. I did a very rough job a while back reading data from a PIC into Excel. It was a while back but I think I got useful snippets from these sites. rob

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:11:36 +0800, "Rob" wroth:

The manufacturer is not giving out many low level details about how the instrument works, neither hardware nor software. There is a .dll driver file and a "universal library" so that you can write your own applications in a couple of "visual" languages. I was trying to avoid that since I already know how to make Excel do almost everything I need to do.

I found a USB monitor utility at

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yesterday. I think that may let me find out how hard it will be to get the data into Excel. I was very impressed with the program in the short time I had to look at it after installation last night.

Jim

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jmeyer

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