One thing that sets the AndroiDAQ module from other data
acquisition products on the market is its use of the industry standard FTDI
UART to USB conversion integrated circuit for USB serial communications. This
allows the designer to use one easy to use USB driver for programming with the
AndroiDAQ module in the various popular programming languages and on various
operating system platforms, which at times can be a very taunting task with
other commercially available data acquisition products. This also makes it easy
to develop your application for the AndroiDAQ module in not only Android, Java,
and LabVIEW, but for other popular programming languages like Python, which can
also be used on multiple platforms. This article is going to present to you how
to set up Python for serial communication, via the USB port, so that you can
add Python to your list of tools for controlling and reading the AndroiDAQ
module.
