Mirrorcle Development Kit Features

• National Instruments DAQ-compatible. Our hardware is fully compatible with dozens of National Instruments (NI) DAQ and Analog Output cards. NI is the global market leader in PC-based data acquisition (DAQ) with a complete family of DAQ products for desktop, portable, industrial, and embedded applications. Easy-to-use driver software is available for many different operating systems including Windows, Linux® OS , Mac OS X, and Real-Time OSs. There are vast libraries of application design examples for NI-DAQ hardware in LabView, Matlab, C++, and other design platforms. Additionally NI regularly holds seminars and courses around the world.
  
  
• Fully mobile demonstration platform. The kit can be run using only a laptop and easily carried by hand, if your laptop includes a PCMCIA DAQ card such as e.g. NI DAQCard-6062E. All circuitry runs on the power provided by the computer, while the laser's power comes from included batteries. As seen in the figures below, both the USB version and the DAQ-based version of the circuits is powered by a laptop.
  
  
• Run multiple kits simultaneously. Figures 2 and 3 below shows two kits working from a single laptop simultaneously. If your computer includes multiple NI-DAQ cards compatible with our hardware, it is straightforward to simultaneously multiple kits from various software platforms.
  
  
• High-quality 2-channel high voltage amplifier . With the stand-alone add-on for your amplifier box, you will receive a high quality 2 channel high-voltage amplifier that amplifies 0-10V to 0-150V over the bandwidth of >10 kHz.
  
  
• USB-compatible. If you choose the USB version of the development kit, based on the NI USB-6221 card you maintain full high-speed driving and digital IO capabilities while obtaining mobility and portability of your overall setup. In order to maintain the full capabilities including correlated DIO, which a user may utilize to drive lasers or imagers synchronously with device movement, this USB hardware is externally powered by an AC adapter.
  
  

Figure 1. Development kit is connected to a National Instuments PCMCIA card inside a laptop, resulting in
a fully mobile and light demonstration platform with no ac outlet or other external cables needed. The kit in this photograph includes a 1" diameter wide-angle lens.

Figure 2. Two development kits are connected to a single laptop and running simultaneously. On the left is
a PCMCIA DAQ-based kit with a green 532nm laser, and on the right is a USB-based kit with a red 630nm laser.

Figure 3. Two MirrorcleDraw software sessions running simultaneously, each one addressing a separate kit.
The overall platform is fully mobile with the PCMCIA DAQ card on the left and USB DAQ on the right.

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