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Automate Rotating Offline Backups via USB Hubs to Avoid Ransomware
Post date: 5 years 2 months ago
How to Automate Offline Backups Manually
If your organization connects any device to the Internet, it’s vulnerable to foreign and domestic hackers, ransomware, leakware, and data theft.
The security experts tell you to manually back up your data and systems every week. But in the real...
BrainStem LabVIEW API
Post date: 8 years 2 weeks ago
The long awaited BrainStem LabVIEW API is finally here!
Well, kind of...
Currently, the API has only been completed for the USBHub2x4 and the USBHub3P+. However, the framework has been laid for all BrainStem devices and USB hubs, and we will soon announce when that has been completed as well...
The ScratchPad
Post date: 8 years 1 month ago
What is the ScratchPad?
The BrainStem scratchpad is a shared memory on a brainstem module which is accessible from both the host and Reflex code. It serves as a simple interprocess communication channel for separate Reflex routines, as well as a communication channel between the host and reflex...
Functional Testing with MTM: LEDs
Post date: 8 years 5 months ago
In this week's video, we show an example of testing LEDs in a board-level functional test system. We used a simple circuit board we created for testing a new light pipe design as an example. The video shows just how easily MTM can be used as an engineering tool and manufacturing test system just by...
How to work with multiple host devices.
Post date: 8 years 6 months ago
How to use USBHub2x4 and MTM to work with multiple host machines
In short, the best setup for you is determined by the type of handoff you would like between host machines and the flexibility you have to modify those host machines.
Host 0 makes all decisions
Including the decision as to...
How many Acroname USBHub2x4's can you connect at once?
Post date: 8 years 8 months ago
Connecting multiple USB hubs
In this week's video we answered the popular question of: "Can I connect more than one USBHub2x4/BrainStem device to my computer?". Not only did we prove that the answer is yes, but we also wanted to see exactly how many devices we could connect using our programmable...
Up and running with BrainStem using our Python API
Post date: 8 years 8 months ago
Check out our new YouTube video "Up and running with BrainStem using our Python API".
This video details how to properly configure your system to communicate with our Brainstem modules. It includes: installing Python, pip, and the BrainStem API (.whl). Once everything is up and running a basic...
