Atomic Spin :: Elements of Software

Over the last year I’ve been working on a Ruby extension for Measurement Computing’s miniLAB 1008 device; version 1.0.0 is now available on Rubyforge.

miniLAB is a simple analog and digital input and output device we’ve used to help system test our embedded projects. The minilab Ruby extension wraps the miniLAB’s native C library into something addressable by Ruby. I’ve also simplified the interface so that you can refer to the miniLAB’s pins by their labeled name rather than their assigned C constant (for those unfamiliar, the label on the device and the actual value you’d pass to the C library are often wildly different).