RPi-DeviceAdapters

RPi-DeviceAdapters is a tool for controlling microscope hardware with the Raspberry Pi. It provides a common software interface to different types of peripherals through Micro-Manager, an open source software package widely used in microscopy.

RPi-DeviceAdapters contains the following tools:

• DeviceAdapters Ready-made Micro-Manager device adapters for various hardware peripherals
• build A Docker image for cross-compiling Micro-Manager for the Raspberry Pi's ARM processors on a x86 laptop or workstation
• app A Docker image for running the Micro-Manager Python wrapper on the Raspberry Pi and that can be easily downloaded onto any Pi that has Docker installed on it
• tacpho.adapters A Python package for easily working with the project's Docker images on the Raspberry Pi

In addition, compiled device adapter libraries may be found in the releases page.

Quickstart

On a Raspberry Pi that has Docker already installed , create a file named script.py that contains the following lines:

import MMCorePy
mmc = MMCorePy.CMMCore()
print(mmc.getVersionInfo())

Run the following commands from a terminal window from the same Pi:

$ pip3 install tacpho.adapters
$ mm.py pull
$ mm.py run script.py

mm.py pull may take several minutes to download the application on the first use.

Getting help

• Chat
• Documentation
• Example scripts

Comments, questions, and feedback may be posted in the Zulip chat room.

Related pages

• rpi-micromanager The project's Docker images
• Micro-Manager Open source microscopy software