Introducing Dirigo #5: Worker Products
Iโm writing a series of โbite-sizedโ posts about Dirigo, my modular image-acquisition framework for laser-scanning microscopy. Previous posts: [#1 Intro], [#2 Acquisition pipeline], [#3 Hardware inte...
๐ฌ New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Worker Products
Products are the way information is carried from node to node along the acquisition pipeline. TBH I'm pretty proud of this system ๐
Introductory post below ๐
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Introducing Thorlabs' New VantageProยฎ Resonant Scanner System!
Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qiTwMZ
Ideal for high-speed imaging, this resonant scanner is designed to deflect a laser beam from its original trajectory and continuously scan it over a user-controlled scan angle.
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We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
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Introducing Dirigo #4: Unit quantities
Iโm 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...
๐ฌ ๐ฌ New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Unit quantities
Why units matter (think 100 ยตm vs 100 mm ๐ฌ), parsing โ400 umโ/โ8 kHzโ/"125 MS/s", expressive types, and unit-checked math.
Dirigo achieves this with a light-weight Pint-inspired layer used everywhere units are relevant.
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Introducing Dirigo โ Post #3: Hardware extensibility & the Digitizer interface
Iโm 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, Iโll describe har...
๐ฌ New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series! (my project to build a flexible backend for sci. image acquisition)
This week: the Digitizer interfaceโhow to abstract the main data-collection device in laser-scanning microscopy to support different cards through a single, oscilloscope-inspired API.
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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.
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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.
Iโll be posting weekly to spark feedback and find collaborators.
This first post covers the intro & high-level design. ๐
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Where engineers launch and sell the world's best hardware
Bringing original, useful, respectful open hardware into existence.
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?
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'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).
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So much fun writing a K99 through this..
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Do you think it's trolling you (which would be kinda brilliant) or is this really its best shot?
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Don't sleep on Strava
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