DCC-Lab

Control lab hardware with the PyHardwareLibrary Python package — motion stages, spectrometers, lasers, power meters, DAQs, oscilloscopes, and USB power strips. Use when a user wants to move a stage, acquire a spectrum, turn a laser on/off or set its power/wavelength, read a power meter, read/write DAQ voltages, switch power-strip outlets on/off, discover connected devices, run code without hardware (debug devices), or build a headless/GUI controller around a device. Covers the device lifecycle, per-family public API, event notifications, and the DeviceController worker-thread wrapper.

Build Tkinter GUIs with the mytk library — connect model state to widgets with two-way property bindings, observe property changes, and broadcast/observe one-to-many events with the NotificationCenter (Enum-based notifications). Use when writing or editing mytk apps/widgets, wiring a variable to its on-screen control, reacting to value changes, or decoupling components via notifications.