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| Joshi-1337:
Hello there, i have absolutly no idea where this pcmcia card came from but im holding it right now in my hands.. The National Instruments DaqCard-6036. Now i wonder if i could use this in 2023? (just to play arround or even use it in any real scenario) Where can i get any drivers or software for this card? And the biggest question what can this thing do? I had a look on some datasheets but didnt get this questionmark out of my head. Thanks to all who got some informations or even a whole pack of help ;D greetings from Germany Joshi |
| Gribo:
1. Do you have a PCMCIA slot on your laptop? No? PCMCIA to USB adapter? 2. Without a costly support contract, NI won't give you the time of day. Good luck. 3. NI has the DAQmx software and library, you can use VB, C# or LabVIEW to acquire samples and drive GPIOs - nothing that a modern Arduino can't do. |
| Joshi-1337:
Thanks for the reply ;) Yes i have an notebook with an pcmcia slot is there any opensource software? or which version of labview is needed to get this card to work? what are the "normal" uses of this card? or more likely what is it used for. Mentioned that an ardunio could do the same sounds more like an software thing to me, im right with that or did i missunderstood this ? greetings Joshi |
| switchabl:
It's a data acquisition (DAQ) module, it has a number of analog inputs that you can read from the computer (there's a few analog outputs and some digital IO as well). It might, for example, have been used to stream data from multiple sensors in a physics experiment or to check test point voltages in an automated test setup. The specs are actually not bad (16 single-ended/8 differential inputs, 16 bits, 200 kS/s, 4 switchable ranges). https://docs-be.ni.com/bundle/370721c/raw/resource/enus/370721c.pdf You could certainly add an ADC and an analog front-end to an Arduino to build your own. But I don't think there's one that has similar capabilities on board already? And you would still need the software. The latest DAQmx version with support for your card seems to be 19.0 and it looks like it's Windows 32-bit only: https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/17/devices-and-modules-no-longer-supported-in-ni-daqmx-17-6-and-lat.html https://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/374768ab.html#NoSupportVista https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html#301173 You should be able to do a basic functional test using the NI MAX software (comes with the driver package). But normally you would then write your own software based on the C/.NET/Python/Labview API. And you would still need a suitable VHDCI cable and breakout box to actually connect anything. Those tend to be pretty expensive but maybe you could make your own from an old SCSI cable or something. |
| zrq:
If you can find the corresponding connector and a laptop old enough to have the PCMCIA slot, then I think the software side is easy. NI is not bad at preserving old software archive. Actually I got an exactly the same DAQCard-6036E last month, although I have easier to use NI USB devices and no old laptops to make it work. In general, these NI DAQ cards do 16 bits DAC/ADC reasonably well, which is certainly better than most toys built upon Arduino. |
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