Introducing Instro — would love feedback from the QCoDeS community

[Jack Parmer (jackparmer)]

Hey QCoDeS friends - we’re big fans of what you’ve built here.

We recently open-sourced Instro, a Python library for test & measurement automation. There’s obviously some overlap with QCoDeS, although we’ve been coming at it primarily from the hardware/test-stand side: a common interface across DAQs, power supplies, scopes, DMMs, AWGs, electronic loads, etc.

For example, the same InstroDAQ interface works across NI, LabJack, MCC, and Keysight DAQs:

daq.open()
daq.configure_voltage_input("Dev1/ai0", alias="voltage")
measurement = daq.read()

https://github.com/nominal-io/instro
https://instro.nominal.io/instrumentation/daq

We have a lot of respect for QCoDeS and would genuinely love feedback from this community - particularly on where you see the projects overlapping vs. solving different problems.

And if there are places where interoperability, shared drivers, or other collaboration would make sense rather than reinventing things independently, we’d love to explore that too.