[edit] Microscope Control Software

[edit] Hardware

At the MMVL a Linux software for controlling a Leica DM LAM microscope with a Basler A302fc IIDC/DCAM-compatible firewire camera has been developed.

[edit] Software

[edit] Features

The software uses OpenGL to display the camera image with a high framerate. The software already has the following capabilities:

Move object table with mouse-dragging
Camera-display with digital zoom (requires IIDC 1394-based firewire digital camera)
Display and capture videos:
- Colour images
- Graylevel images
- Edge images (thresholded Sobel)
Capture focus stacks

[edit] Implementation

The implementation took maybe 15 days. Before being able to develop the application itself, the Mimas-library had to be enhanced with firewire digital camera input, the existing libserial-library had to be enhanced with timing functionality and the required part of the serial communication with the Leica DM LAM microscope had to be implemented under Linux.