Imaging, Microscopy and More
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Cooling a Pt Grey Camera
I’ve been working with Pt Grey (now FLIR) cameras for a few years now, and one nagging question in the back of my mind has been whether or not it is possible to cool them via external means. There are basically 3 categories of cooling when it comes to low light cameras: no cooling whatsoever…
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Calling all Arduino and Raspberry Pi Users!
Do you build systems which use Arduino or Raspberry Pi boards? Are you happy with the enclosure options available today? I’m not either. But I’m having some trouble figuring out the best possible products to offer. So, I figure there’s no one better to help than the people who need such products. Would you help…
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LED, laser, or other PWM control using Triggerscope
It appears that more and more people want to use PWM control for illumination devices from Micro-Manager and other imaging software. PWM may be used for any number of applications, from high speed pulsing of an LED, or a laser, in order to reduce phototoxicity or just to control brightness, or to drive a DC…
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Intel NUC, Pt Grey camera and ASI RAMM offer serious performance for a great price
One of my recent projects which was very exciting and interesting was to build a custom imaging system for John Mclaughlin at Torch Therapeutics. This was a great build for a number of reasons, one of which is that Torch has allowed me to write a report on this build, which is greatly appreciated! From…
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Micro-Manager on the Raspberry Pi
Micro-manager guru Kyle M. Douglass recently posed his implementation of micro-manager on a raspberry Pi 3. Very cool potential here, considering when the computing power of the pi is exceeded for a given application, one could just add more for $45! I’d imagine that memory handling issues related to image capture would be the biggest…
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Computational imaging continues to grow in microscopy
The Waller Lab recently had a demo announcement of their awesome implementation of computational imaging. They have some examples on their lytro page, which look really cool! This got me thinking about the last 10 years or so, and how the combination of image capture with control over input and output image fields, has grown into a…
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An awesome gerber viewer for OSX
While there are a few viewing tools available for OSX, I’ve been looking for something that was higher quality, and more configurable. Today I stumbled upon Cuprum. This viewer supports layering, export of user-configured views, some good print options and other stuff. It’s $13 on the Mac App store, and well worth it IMHO. …
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Largest Image of the sky ever taken
The Pan-STARRS observatory released this single image of the entire night sky, in late Dec. Amazing! An 11MB download is available here. Reference – http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/panstarrs_release/ -Austin
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Black Friday / Cyber Monday Discounts for Builders & Makers
Hackaday has a great list of links on whats available for black Friday & Cyber Monday. I found this a great deal – Autodesk has an offer for 2 years of Fusion360 for only $60/yr! My local 3D printer manufacturer, Printrbot, has a 10% off everything offer on…everything. Post below if you find other deals for the…
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Pt Grey Camera Driver for MicroManager unleashes low-cost microscopy
Let’s say you want to build an imaging system, but you want to attach 2 cameras for time-correlated 2 channel imaging. The limiting factor for such an arrangement is usually cost, that cost being $10,000 USD per camera means $20,000 for such a setup! A result of this is most researchers end up not using…