Overview of the bTop-2 from PSI
The bTop is versatile
With the software from Perfectly Scientific or with your own custom applications, the bTop-2 puts a wealth of functionality at your disposal.
- Interface robotics equipment with a rich API.
- Control electronics equipment from your Mac or monitor a benchtop laboratory experiment.
- Monitor the environment for home energy control.
- Bridge together components of a security system.
- For teaching or research, the quick set up time is ideal for univeristy laboratory data acquisition.
With its digital and analog inputs and outputs and easy-to-use software, the bTop-2 is versatile and simple to use.
An actual robot built of a Mac Mini, iSight, and bTop-1 card.
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Easy to use
Just plug it in! The bTop-2 connects to your Mac via USB 2.0 cable (included in purchase). With the free bTop app, you can start capturing data immediately. The quick set up is ideal for academic instruction or any other setting where set up time really matters.
Quality in design
The bTop-2 provides a USB2-Fast interface to your Mac and is itself powered from that USB cable, so there is only one, simple connection. If you need extra power to control motors and relays, the bTop-2 comes with a 5V DC transformer to provide a bit more.
Extensible
A set of drivers and Xcode project templates gets you up and running with your own custom applications. Programming examples are included and the bTop-1 Cookbook guides the programmer through the basic steps of creating a Cocoa based Mac OS X application which makes use of the input/output capabilities of the device.
