Python Device Wrappers

These are python wrappers for controlling laboratory hardware devices. The majority of work was done at the Molecular Foundary at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Murthy Lab at Harvard University.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

All packages are written with Anaconda Python 3.6 distribution, numpy is needed for most of the packages.

conda install numpy

Installing

You could clone this repository, or download specific wrapper file for the device you are using. Each device wrapper will contain a README for detailed instruction.

List of drivers

• arduino_motor - arduino control for one single stepper motor
• arduino_odometer - arduino control for odometer modified from a PS/2 computer mouse
• arduino_sol - arduino control of 4 channel analog solenoid valves, using 4 MCP4821 DAC chip
• arduino_sol8 - arduino control of 8 channel analog solenoid valves, using 1 MAX528 DAC chip
• camera - generic webcam wrapper
• daq_ai - NI-DAQmx analog input wrapper
• daq_do - NI-DAQmx digital output wrapper
• daqmotor - tracking device control wrapper, the device is made up of 2 stepper motor controlled by NI-DAQ
• flircam - FLIR camera wrappers
• thorcam - Thorlabs camera wrappers

Contributors

• Hao Wu - Creator - fullerene12
• Vikrant Kapoor - hardware design

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Edward Barnard for the ScopeFoundry framework edbarnard
• Daniel Dietz for uc480 code ddietz
• Frank Ogletree for getting me started using python for hardware control