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A project log for Mouse-controlled Microscope

Arduino + geared stepper motor control of microscope XY stage and focus. Inspired by need for an amputee to do veterinary lab work.

kskksk 08/24/2016 at 16:120 Comments

I will be adding source files, links, and other details over the next few weeks. Everything is or will be open-sourced.

The motor mounts and gears that are matched to the manual control wheels on the microscope are all specific to the microscope I bought. I suspect that there are many models from the same company that can use the designs as is, but it's likely you will have to modify the designs for your own. That means getting out a rule and other measuring tools to determine mount points, etc.

As of this initial post, what is working includes:

May try to add a "slide center" mode.

Moving on to testing mouse XY control integration ("unit" tests complete), then starting on focus mechanical.

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