Hardware agnostic microscope user interface
Project description
Microscope-Cockpit
Cockpit is a microscope graphical user interface. It is a flexible and easy to extend platform aimed at life scientists using bespoke microscopes. More detailed information is available:
in the Online documentation
on the Micron Oxford website
in the recently published paper
Main Features
Easy to use and extend by life scientists: Cockpit is completely written in Python and meant to be extended by the user.
Independent of the actual devices being used: Cockpit uses Python’s Microscope package to control the devices. The graphical interface and experiments automatically adjust to the existing devices.
Very fast device control and time precision: During experiments, devices are controlled via hardware signals.
Cross Platform: Cockpit runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows.
FOSS: Cockpit is free and open source software, released under the GPL.
The User Interface
The user interface is made up of a number of windows with the main ones shown below.
Citation
If you find this project useful, please cite:
Phillips MA, Susano Pinto DM, Hall N et al. Microscope-Cockpit: Python-based bespoke microscopy for bio-medical science. Wellcome Open Res 2021, 6:76 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16610.1)
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