[Robotgroup] [FWD] Microscope Biology article

[Clendon Gibson]

Hi Mike,

One package that has all the needed bits is National Instruments Vision. This package is designed as an add on for either NI's LabVIEW, NI's LabWindows CVI or Visual Basic. (I have not checked if this package has support for Visual Basic .Net, but it should.) This stuff is not cheap, but it would allow someone to make short work of the described project. 


----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Atkinson <pmatkinson at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 3:51:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] [FWD] Microscope Biology article

Mike,

Since there is no mention of software in the article, I can only guess. The
Intel QX3 microscope design has been acquired by Real Blue, if memory
serves. The included software has a paint program and some time-delay
capability, but nothing that appears to do image recognition and actions
based on that. I believe some of the inexpensive web cams (also USB based)
have that ability, so I wonder if the web cam software might be compatible
with the microscope? Perhaps some of the RG folks might have some better
suggestions?

I own one of the Intel QX3 microscopes and I believe the CD is still around
somewhere, if you want to borrow it.

You could try contacting the folks that host the original site  and see if
they can explain "the rest of the story?"

Paul

On 4/3/07, Def Egge <robodigest at innervate.com> wrote:
>
> At 07:14  2007/03/30, Paul Atkinson wrote:
> >Mike,
> >
> >Here's the link to the article I mentioned last night.
>
> [comment trimmed]
>
> ><http://www.hackaday.com/2007/03/28/microscope-reactive-digital-aquarium/
> >http://www.hackaday.com/2007/03/28/microscope-reactive-digital-aquarium/
> >
> >
> >Paul
>
> OK, what kind of video analysis software is required to make this
> sort of thing work?  Is there some off-the-shelf software to
> accomplish this for M$ Windoze or Linux that is cheap or open source?
>
>
> All the best....
>
> Mike
>
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