microscope-cockpit 2.9.2

Hardware agnostic microscope user interface

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)