Category: programming
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I’ve moved to Bluehost – Notice?
So after experiencing extremely slow delays (page load times) with my old hosting provider, I decided to move to Bluehost. For those of you interested in running your own wordpress site, it turns out that some companies don’t host wordpress and it’s database usage well, due to it’s reliance upon css to generate content to […]
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Fix for Elements v 3.2 and ASI Stages
As anyone who is running NIS Elements v 3.20 + is aware, the ASI stage controllers of any MS-2000 series will not be usable once elements issues a connection command to the controller. Elements will control the stage properly, however the user will not be able to position the stage using the manual joystick. So, […]
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Merging multiple channels in Fiji
I had this question asked at my recent Bio-X training, and wanted to provide a thorough answer to it, as this is a common need: Assume we have multiple images, or multiple stacks, and we want to analyze something like the intensity through stack A vs. stack B. We don’t want to convert the stacks […]
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BioX Training at Stanford
Welcome Bio-X Course Attendees! Due to it’s utility and ease of providing common tools in a variety of operating system choices, I’ll be running this course using the FIJI build of ImageJ. You can find Fiji here. Please bring the following to the course: 1. Your laptop, with an installed copy of Fiji. 2. The […]
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Instensity Calibration using a Photostable Light Source
I’m very excited to announce Technical Instruments’ first ever camera-specific calibration product! At left is an image of the CC-560, or Camera calibrator, which emits photons at 560nm. All of the cameras in the microscopy world rely upon a single defining point that (theoretically) justifies the price premium we pay for them. That defining point […]
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Micro-Manager 1.3 and Velleman Boards
If you are running micro manager and need to control a device via TTL or voltage, there is a nice driver written for umanager along with an inexpensive A/D card. The Card I used for a recent project was the Velleman K-8061. I’ve written up a simple how-to on connecting the board to a windows […]
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Elements 3.1 Released
Nikon has released it’s major revision of Elements in version 3.1. (Build 587). There are several new features in this build and from what i’ve seen it’s quite stable. You can download the build here. – Austin
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What can programming macros do for me?
I’ve been running into a lot of programming applications lately. The fun part about using the Elements (or other) programming system is the amount of utility and flexibility it can offer to end users. Most people think about programming in our industry only as it relates to image analytics. I wanted to point out some […]