Real World Instrumentation with Python: Automated Data Acquisition and Control Systems

I don't know if my expectations were misplaced having read books like  Programming Interactivity: A Designer's Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks  or  Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects . But I expected a more complete coverage for the price.First, I'm not a programmer but for multiple jobs I've written Python scripts to interpret, store, and retrieve data from serial interfaces. And I don't feel like I walked away from this book with much more than I came in with. The citations were valuable, the treatments of control systems and communications protocols were welcome, but every topic seemed to stop short of real meat and defer to sources or say 'this will be covered in a the manual with your device driver'. In this day and age, a chapter on communications protocols that doesn't at least mention TCP/IP is woefully incomplete.With the plethora of 'Cool things to do with a microcontroller' books I expected to see something similar coming from a book that used Python and implied PC control. The former tend to treat the PC merely as a vehicle for putting code on the MCU and use languages that are 'less intuitive'. This is where I expected this title to differentiate itself. It didn't.

Good book, as usual for the O'Reilly series it's worth the price. Lots of material on general instrumentation, and less on python, so don't buy this expecting to learn python ab initio. Has been very useful around the lab for the students and I'd recommend it as a nice primer or refresher for your lab's general knowledge shelf.

Good but with good writing and a nice coverage of technical areas. I would recommend this book.

Well-organized and informative.

I like that book and I am I recommend it to any one who would like to start programming in python . Many thanks to the autor!

Nice pack of Control Systems, Data Acquisition, and Test! Price is good and book was well written. Thanks for a good work!

good condition

This a comprehensive handbook for Interfacing Instrumentation With Computers and Programming of Data Acquisition, Analysis and Display. This extensive introduction and cookbook approach will be invaluable to a number of audiences, including: 1. Laboratory Scientists for whom the computer is a tool to perform their research in domains ranging from psychophysiology to high-energy physics, 2. Control System and Process Plant Engineers who need to interface, control and data log from a variety of equipment in a reliable manner, 3. Embedded System Engineers and Designers who need an understanding of interfacing to a variety of equipment and developing application programs for data analysis and control, and 4. Hobbyists and Makers who may have experimented with Arduino and simple Open Source hardware who now need to make computers work in a real application (or who may wish to interface a conventional PC to other hardware).This book develops the background for Interfacing and Programming Computers in all Real-Time Applications. It does much more than it claims in being a programming manual for Python in Instrumentation Applications. The background needed to understood what Instrumentation is and how it is used in a variety of applications is provided; this handbook also goes into the essential Electronics for all sorts of computer and instrumentation interfaces; a self-sufficient Python Programming tutorial is provided, the Tools and Methods of hardware interfacing and testing is given; all of these topics are well covered in sufficient detail for the novice in addition to the extensive tutorial on Programming Data Acquisition, Analysis, Logging and Graphical Display promised in the title.I would have welcomed a similar book on interfacing and programming minicomputers and early microprocessor systems to laboratory systems in my university days, and with the current proliferation of real-time embedded applications, hobbyists and makers and inexpensive data-acquisition hardware the value of this handbook is multiplied many-fold.Ira Laefsky, MSE/MBAIT & HCI Consultant and Researcherformerly on the Senior Consulting Staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation

As a primer for hardware control this book is great. 5/5 would recommend AS A PRIMER. For more specialized information maybe look somewhere else. I liked it though.

E' un ottimo compedio che unisce la strumentazione di laboratory con la teoria del controllo e il linguaggio python. Lo consiglio per corsi universitari avanzati. I vari argomenti sono trattati in modo chiaro e semplice. Ottimi gli esempi. Ho apprezzato molto I consigli sull'utilizzo della strumentazione di laboratorio. Ottimo prezzo, anche se la dogana ha aggiunto una piccolo differenza , pur essendo il testo utilizzato.