Software/MATLAB

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While Zaber staff don't have any experience using MATLAB, a Zaber customer, Mark Holton, kindly sent in this snippet as a starting point for sending commands from MATLAB. NOTE: the instrument control toolbox may be necessary. See the Zaber user manual for the details of how to calculate the byte values in each command packet.

% ##############################################

s = serial('com1','BaudRate',9600)
fopen(s)

command_renumber = [0 2 0 0 0 0]
command_home     = [1 1 0 0 0 0]

fwrite(s,command_renumber)
pause(1)
fwrite(s,command_home) % assuming that the actuator is extended before this
% ##############################################

Another customer, John Middendorf, expanded this into an example program that also reads responses and has a graphical user interface.

Many thanks to both of them.