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Building Micro-Manager on the Pi

A project log for Basic lensless imaging for low-cost microscopy

My attempt to build a microscope without the most expensive part.

kyle-m-douglassKyle M. Douglass 02/10/2017 at 19:010 Comments

Micro-Manager is an open source platform for controlling microscope hardware, automating image acquisition, and generating metadata about how images are acquired. In biomedical imaging research, it serves as an incredibly important tool because it is free and open source, which means that scientists can benefit from the contributions of others to the software without paying costly licensing fees.

I recently managed to compile Micro-Manager version 2.0 on the Raspberry Pi. Though I am not yet convinced that Micro-Manager will be the best tool for this particular job given it's relatively heavy footprint on the Pi's slower hardware, it does provide a near ready-made platform to start prototyping acquitistion software for the lensless imager.

My instructions on how to build MM for the Pi are here: http://kmdouglass.github.io/posts/micro-manager-on-the-raspberry-pi.html#http://kmdouglass.github.io/posts/micro-manager-on-the-raspberry-pi.html#

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