On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 12:32 -0600, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007 9:53:47 am Daniel Howard wrote: > > Anybody know which digital microscopes can be made to work easily under > > Linux in a thin client scenario? Would like options for both 1) a > > single, higher end scope connected to class server and 2) lesser but > > more numerous scopes for each thin client. > > > > Thanks, Daniel > > There is a very good open-source microscopy program called micromanager that > will work on linux. > > http://www.micro-manager.org/ > > Its based on ImageJ http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ ImageJ is a really nice package. I used it when I was teaching at Emory. Video capture and then subsequent analysis of the images using ImageJ for physics 2D motion analysis. Very nice. > > Its has a level of sophistication that perhaps goes far beyond what it is > needed in a typical educational environment. > > A list of hardware it supports is here: > http://www.micro-manager.org/support.php > > A firewire based scope would likely be better supported than USB. > Micromanager uses the libdc1394 firewire library to support firewire cameras > > Perhaps a good strategy would be to support a camera system that could be > mounted on existing traditional optical scope. Many schools already have > traditional microscopes/. > > A scope using a camera supported by the libdc1394 firewire library should work > with linux > http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/libdc1394/ > > see the IEEE1394 Digital Camera List > http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/cameras/ > cameras compatible with the IIDC/DCAM standard should work. > > Also look at Coriander- Linux graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling a > Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 > ttp://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/coriander/index.php > > Might be possible to mount a cheap firewire camera on the occular of a regular > scope and control it with Coriander or Mircomanager > > We used Micromanager here at the UofS to support a camera that had no > Macintosh drivers supplied by the manufacturer. The lab installed > Micromanager and the camera worked :) > > Also used it to support an old digital camera/scope that was no longer support > by its manufacturer (unless we spent $1000s to upgrade software) > > > Gord > -- > Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology > gordon.holtslander@xxxxxxxx University of Saskatchewan > Tel (306) 966-4433 112 Science Place > FAX (306) 966-4461 Saskatoon, SK > homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 Canada, S7N 5E2 > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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