ScopeFoundry is an open-source Python platform for controlling custom laboratory experiments and visualizing scientific data developed at the Molecular Foundry. ScopeFoundry is currently used on more than a dozen microscopes and robotic synthesis systems at the Foundry. Additionally, many groups are actively using ScopeFoundry to run their labs around LBNL and at academic institutions around the world.
The Molecular Foundry Data Group provides user support for building and modifying ScopeFoundry instrument software for systems within and outside of the Molecular Foundry.
Project website: www.scopefoundry.org
GitHub page: https://github.com/ScopeFoundry/ScopeFoundry
Why ScopeFoundry?
An open-source alternative to LabView or MATLAB instrument control:
- Modular, cross-platform Python graphical interface allows for fast data acquisition and visualization
- Build lab equipment graphical interfaces interactively
- Live updates of measurement code for fast development and debugging
- Hardware plug-ins for simple and complex scientific equipment
Uses:
- Currently used in multi-modal scanning microscopy measurements with electrons and optics
- Automated synthesis and characterization robots
- Flexible for many other data acquisition tasks
Instruments at the Molecular Foundry that use ScopeFoundry include:
- Hyperspectral Raman mapping
- Montana Instruments Imaging Cryostat Microscope
- AttoDry Magneto Optical Cryostat
- 2D Materials Transfer station
