Finally there has been some progress with LaserLine, just in time for EOH. Last Thursday night I had a chance to get EasyLaseUSB support hacked in to our ILDAInspector program; allowing me to display ILDA frames and sequences on the oscilloscope.

First ILDA Test Frame output on EasyLase USB from my Mac.

I posted some additional videos and photos at http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~hagedorn/EasyLase/

This represents good progress toward LaserLine 2.0’s core objectives. More information about what those objectives are, and how we’re progressing is available at our Trac site.

I’ll be spending whatever free time I have over the next couple of weeks implementing the optical position-detector system on the galvos (I finally gave up on the RF-PD) and fixing bugs in the EasyLaseUSB driver for Mac OS X. It is close, but still occasionally hangs; and that needs to be fixed completely. Engineering Open House is approaching quickly; so are due dates for assignments…