Are there examples for the Thorlabs DCU223M USB camera?

[shredderofmass]

I am trying to integrate stuff I happen to have around the lab. Before I got here the other researchers bought a lot of thorlabs stuff. I'd like to use the things they are used to but I find thorlabs software to be no fun with labview. as anyone integrated the DCU223M or similar USB camera? They have labview drivers for some similar stuff. I just want to be able to grab an image and save it. It would be nice if I could get the cam to pass off an image to labview and let me do the saving. Any thoughts?

[Eric_K]

Hey shredderofmass,

For this camera if you are using LabVIEW 8.6 with the Vision Development Module , which you can download a trial version, you are able to use Developer Zone Example Program: NI-IMAQ for USB Cameras to configure any DirectShow imaging device and acquire images into LabVIEW. Devices that support this feature include USB cameras, webcams, microscopes, scanners, and many consumer-grade imaging products.

Also, I was able to find DCU223M Software Provided SoftwareDCU223M Software Provided Software:A software package including all available instrument drivers, the application software, and documentation comes packaged with each CCD camera. it states that it includes an instrument driver, but I am not sure for what ADE that instrument driver can be used in, since I am unable to find additional documentation that explains in more detail.

I hope that is able to help.

Thanks

Eric K

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

Message Edited by Eric K on 06-30-2009 05:41 PM

[shredderofmass]

PS.

Thanks

Thorlabs activeX environments are hit and miss, I didn't really like the activeX for some of their motion control. The camera however comes with an actual SDK and an activeX function list which is extensively and clearly documented. It actually works very well with the exception of one function I was unable to get working, "copy_image" which puts the image into a buffer. The rest worked really well.