This page describes how to get it connected up and ready for use through Matlab. After the calibration step, interfacing the manipulator is done through a piktul class file.

Since we are sharing the lab, I am afraid that you will have to setup and cleanup the manipulator each time. Here is how the setup goes:

1. First, you'll have to move the other lab's stuff by sort of piling it up in the corner.

2. Second, grab a manipulator from the shelf (see below for which ones are functioning) and bring it to desk.

3. You have to reach behind the monitor and grab the serial cable.

4. Connect the serial cable up. Also connect the AC/DC into a power source and to the manipulator's circuit board.

4. It helps to also grab the cardboard cut-out for the manipulator since it has a workspace grid on it. There are a bunch of them to the left of the shelf on the floor (in between the two shelves there in the room).