DAQ notes
Practical writing on data acquisition: running DAQ hardware on a Mac, mixing vendors on one bench, and getting clean data out the other end.
Is there a DAQami for Mac?
DAQami, MCC’s free data logging app, only runs on Windows. Here are the realistic ways to run Measurement Computing USB DAQ devices on a Mac.
October 7, 2026 · 6 min readUsing NI DAQ hardware with a Mac
NI-DAQmx doesn’t run on current macOS. Here are the setups that do work if your NI hardware has to live alongside a Mac.
October 7, 2026 · 6 min readLogging data from a LabJack T7 on a Mac
LabJack’s LJM library runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Here are two ways to get data off a T4, T7 or T8 and onto disk.
October 7, 2026 · 7 min readRunning a mixed-vendor DAQ bench without the chaos
An MCC box here, a LabJack there, a scope on the network. How to get one coherent dataset out of hardware that was never designed to work together.
October 7, 2026 · 7 min readCSV, MATLAB, TDMS, Parquet or HDF5?
Five common formats for measurement data, what each is good at, and which to pick for your workflow.
October 7, 2026 · 7 min read