Bob LeSuer has created something which I’m dying to add to the Picorder. It’s a spectrometer. A spectrometer is (according to Wikipedia):
an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials
The impressive thing is that the programming is a mix between Mathematica and C. It’s the first decent application of the Mathematica language I’ve seen on the Pi and just shows what an excellent platform it is for creating scientific graphs.
You can read all about it over on Bob’s blog. I’m hoping the increased hits from my blog will convince him to write a more detailed tutorial, but there’s plenty there, including code, to help you get going.
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I’d love to make one too, keep at it!
The link to Bob’s blog does not seem to work. Is the documentation for the spectrometer project available elsewhere?
Looks like he had some problems with his blog and is slowly republishing his old posts. There are _some_ details of something similar by Bob here:http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/201504?p_p_auth=cWn9rdVv
Thanks for the shout out – I continue to demonstrate my inability to manage a website, and just rebuilt the pages again. Current link for my spectrometer information is https://bobthechemist.com/tag/diy-spectrometer/ Let’s see if it stays up a little longer than the last one.
Thanks Bob