Four new tutorials are online: Excel VBA, C with Code::Blocks, Lazarus / Free Pascal / Delphi, and GNU Octave on Linux. Each comes with a ready-made project or script to download. Separately, the GPIBee driver in linux-gpib gained parallel poll and a settable T1 delay.
Read moreBatronix in northern Germany now carries GPIBee and ships across Europe, Switzerland and the United Kingdom included. Buying inside the EU no longer means an import from the United States. There is a nice coincidence in it as well.
Read moreA user reported that his GPIBee stopped responding after about a day of continuous operation. This build fixes the slow memory leak behind it, and firmware now runs here for weeks before it is released. Also in this release, unrelated to that: screenshot downloads in Benches are about ten times faster, and download buttons show progress.
Read moreGPIBee V1.6 introduces Benches: build a browser front panel for any GPIB instrument in minutes, without writing software. Switch a supply on from the kitchen table, read a meter from your phone, and give a 1985 instrument the web interface it never had.
Read moreA new firmware build is available. The headline is VXI-11: a conformance test suite written for this project covers 104 rules of the specification, and all of them now pass. Also in this release, a working abort channel, the VXI-11.2 low-level bus commands, and fixes to link locking, instance names and fragmented RPC records.
Read moreA look at how GPIBee's firmware is verified: a GPIB bus spanning five decades of instruments, regression suites for USBTMC and VXI-11, and a VXI-11 standards compliance suite written from scratch because none existed. Its first run passed 69.4% of its checks. Here is what it found and how that was fixed.
Read moreSomeone asked on YouTube whether GPIBee can be used like the raw TCP socket that many instruments expose on port 5025. It can. Here is the short answer, and the one thing that is different because GPIBee is a gateway.
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