Day 12

Today was full of code errors and numerous attempts at debugging. I finally seemed to have some code that worked, but I ran into some errors with the 'include' files, and as ThorLabs has yet to respond to me with any programming help, I decided to shift focus and work on connecting the controls for the stages to MATLAB. There seems to be quite a bit more documentation available for using these ALIO stages with MATLAB, I have all the necessary compilers and drivers now, and the only issue left to deal with is figuring out how to work the loadlibrary function, which has been having some errors too. Luckily, Dmitry will be back next week, so we should be able to figure that out pretty quickly on Monday. We're still waiting on the parts for the rest of the cleanroom, but once they come, assembling it shouldn't be too difficult a task, and we can move on to taking our actual measurements. In the meantime, we must be very careful and precise with our calibration (ergo the precision stages).