Open source EEZ Studio for accessing your (SCPI) instruments

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 785: Designing GUIs And Building Instruments With EEZ

This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Dennis and Goran about EEZ, the series of projects that started with an Open Source programmable power supply, continued with the BB3 modular test bench tool, and continues with EEZ Studio, a GUI design tool for embedded devices.

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/29/floss-weekly-episode-785-designing-guis-and-building-instruments-with-eez/

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EEZ Studio in action...



https://github.com/FractalEngineer/eez-studio-projects

[prasimix]

Two parts video on how to use EEZ Studio to build an Arduino LVGL UI from nerdhut.de:

[prasimix]

Another great intro to EEZ Studio...

[prasimix]

FLOSS Weekly Episode 785: Designing GUIs And Building Instruments With EEZ

This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Dennis and Goran about EEZ, the series of projects that started with an Open Source programmable power supply, continued with the BB3 modular test bench tool, and continues with EEZ Studio, a GUI design tool for embedded devices.

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/29/floss-weekly-episode-785-designing-guis-and-building-instruments-with-eez/

We received an email from a certain Carl who says:

I recently heard about you on FLOSS weekly, and noticed the difficulty with the name. It seems to me that there is an easy (no pun intended) solution. Since EEZ studio is intended to make an embedded electrical engineer's job easier, and since the coursework to become an electrical engineer is referred to as double E, you could call it Double easy studio, and aspire to make embedded GUIs "Double Easy"

The suggestion sounds good to me, and I'd love to hear your opinion. I must also say that as soon as I read this, the following thought immediately occurred to me: maybe it should be pronounced "E Squared Studio", just like I2C is pronounced "I squared C" 🤓

[PlainName]

Only Americans pronounce it 'zee'. Here in the original world it is 'zed', so... 

Double-easy is a good play. I don't think E-squared would work since you would then really need to rebrand as E2Z.

[KungFuJosh]

"Two Easy" or "2Easy" makes more sense in the context of the claims of making it easier.

[prasimix]

Only Americans pronounce it 'zee'. Here in the original world it is 'zed', so... 

Double-easy is a good play. I don't think E-squared would work since you would then really need to rebrand as E2Z.

Yes and no, since EE is equal to E * E that is E² Anyway, thanks for your input.

[Kean]

I think that Double Easy (double-eee-zee) is quite clever, and would encourage its adoption.  Even for those of us that might naturally say zed rather than zee, we would get it.
And while double-eee-zed doesn't pick up the extra meaning, it isn't any harder to say than eee-eee-zee which is what I've tend to know it as.  OK, one extra syllable but it still flows.

PS. I've said eye-two-cee for a few decades rather than eye-squared-cee, but while I am certain to not be the only one, I am also not sure how prevalent that is.

[PlainName]

I've said eye-two-cee for a few decades rather than eye-squared-cee

Same. I think it's because we try to reduce the number of syllables, or shapes our mouths must make. Nicknames, for instance, are nearly always shorter and, given the choice we try to use acronyms rather than initialisms. Even the great initialism example of the BBC we try to make easier by calling it the 'beeb'.