This document summarizes Matthew Herndon's presentation on using a Raspberry Pi to control scientific instruments over a local area network and consolidating instrument control using Matlab. The presentation covers using a Raspberry Pi and USB over IP to control USB devices remotely over a network. It then discusses using Matlab to create a unified interface for controlling multiple instruments through simple code by implementing a object-oriented design with a singleton pattern. The goals are to make instrument control and initialization easy through a single, modular interface.