V1.0 10/10/2016 Ian Dobbie - [email protected]
The aim of this project is to create a generic open source microscope control package. The plan is to have two separable components, one to drive the microscope and a second gui front end. The microscope driving component will be fully scriptable and not reliant on the gui for its functionality, but the gui will implement a flexible and powerful front end for microscope users.
Over several years we have been involved in building a number of bespoke optical setups. A number of these have been in collaboration with John Sedat and his group at UCSF. They developed Cockpit, a easy to drive microscope front end written in Python. We have done extensive work adding additional hardware support, bug fixing, and improving the front end. The system has grown beyond its design assumptions and we are therefore trying to start again to have a more sustainable code base for the future.
Ian Dobbie David Susano Pinto Mick Phillips