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Remember, the Arduino is just a controller. Anything fancy with valves, pumps and syringes you mention is something that has to be solved first or elsewhere.
Given an electrical interface to your valves etc., then we can help. The interface can be mains power, 5V supply levels or even an IP address; there are circuits and addons so the Arduino can do it.
How is your netbook connected to the DIC and where in the process do you want to insert the automation? Making wild guesses from your short description I could imagine :
- Software on netbook that talks to the Arduino. The connection is via the USB using a serial/ASCII protocol. The software logs the Arduino output.
- Software in the Arduino that send commands to the DIC along some interface (simple on/Off signals, or maybe an industry standard bus interface), receives results in kind, and then format/reports results to the notebook. It cycles this according to some schedule