Re: [DIYbio] LECIS - Standard for lab automation

On 02/11/2016 06:40 AM, Markos wrote:
> The adoption of this standard could improve the integration of different lab automation projects using free software and open
> hardware.
>
> What do you think?

Oh... It's had years of development, but it's not aimed at coders very well.

1. It has a concept of state machines built in, where coders want to implement such in their own way.
So adoption by any particular coder, (or hardware designer), requires they learn a new language specifying
state machines when the hardware designers like verilog and VHDL, and the coders like their looping constructs.

2. it was windows all the way: "As part of this project a General-Purpose LECIS Instrument Controller software was written
(running under MS Windows) to serve as an implementation guide",
"goal of this collaborative effort is also to develop a CORBA (Common Request Broker Architecture) and DCOM (Distributed Component
Model) IDL (Interface Definition Language)",
so it was a turn off to open source coders.

CORBA seems to have gone towards CORBA which is open and specs available freely,
but based on object oriented code across networks which is going to be tricky. They even say so: "Why are some specifications so
hard to read?

Most OMG specifications are written for programmers who implement compliant software products. They are not written for the
developers who build applications that use these products, and are especially not written for the users of these applications. "


3., ASTM is one of the old fashioned standards publishers that charge high fees for specs.

My gut feel is CORBA will be hard to really comply with by being so big and backward compatible. It would get you ability to
communicate some with old high priced lab gear, and yet, mostly by serial port in an age where USB or wifi is preferred and even
ethernet is unusual on lab gear, and most of the old gear has no security at all in an age of attackers everywhere on a LAN that
has been infested by trojans from emails.

Just a gut feel though. Prove me wrong!

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