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Tim Weber

@timweber.bsky.social

Image scientist and biomedical engineer at MIT.

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Introducing Dirigo #4: Unit quantities I’m writing posts to introduce Dirigo, a flexible image acquisition framework targeting laser scanning applications. Previous posts: #1: Intro, #2: Acquisition pipeline composition, #3: Hardware inter...

πŸ”¬ πŸ”¬ New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Unit quantities

Why units matter (think 100 Β΅m vs 100 mm 😬), parsing β€œ400 um”/β€œ8 kHz”/"125 MS/s", expressive types, and unit-checked math.

Dirigo achieves this with a light-weight Pint-inspired layer used everywhere units are relevant.

18.09.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing Dirigo – Post #3: Hardware extensibility & the Digitizer interface I’m writing weekly posts to introduce Dirigo, a flexible image acquisition framework for Python. In the last post, I introduced the reconfigurable acquisition pipeline. In this post, I’ll describe har...

πŸ”¬ New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series! (my project to build a flexible backend for sci. image acquisition)

This week: the Digitizer interfaceβ€”how to abstract the main data-collection device in laser-scanning microscopy to support different cards through a single, oscilloscope-inspired API.

25.08.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series!

In this one, I share a short video clip demo & walk through how Dirigo organizes image acquisition as a reconfigurable dataflow graph.

πŸ‘‰ forum.image.sc/t/introducin...

19.08.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Designing Dirigo: a flexible, extensible backend for scientific image acquisition Some time ago, on a certain social platform that has since been renamed, I asked for suggestions on laser scanning microscopy acquisition control software. I was looking for something in the spirit of...

Just posted Part 1 of a new series on "Dirigo", my design for a very flexible, extensible backend for scientific image acquisition.

I’ll be posting weekly to spark feedback and find collaborators.
This first post covers the intro & high-level design. πŸ‘‡

11.08.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I see strides being made in open source electronics www.crowdsupply.com may be easier here because scalability (PCB fab, pick and place, etc). What would this look like for a microscope frame?

13.02.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'Open source' is a great concept--but I think the bottleneck is fabrication. We need a low-cost partner building open designs at reasonable scale. Open source works so well for software because the 'fabrication' is simply computer execution (+/-compiling and distribution).

13.02.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So much fun writing a K99 through this..

28.01.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you think it's trolling you (which would be kinda brilliant) or is this really its best shot?

28.01.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't sleep on Strava

02.12.2024 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - tweber225/atsbindings: Python bindings for AlazarTech API. Python bindings for AlazarTech API. Contribute to tweber225/atsbindings development by creating an account on GitHub.

I just made my Alazar digitizer Python bindings public. Provides API binding, a ton of enumerations with helper methods, and data parsing.
github.com/tweber225/at...

26.11.2024 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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