Cockpit is a microscope graphical user interface. It is a flexible and easy to extend platform aimed at life scientists using bespoke microscopes. More detailed information is available:
- in the Online documentation
- on the Micron Oxford websitee
- in the recently published bioRxiv paper
- Easy to use and extend by life scientists: Cockpit is completely written in Python and meant to be extended by the user.
- Independent of the actual devices being used: Cockpit uses Python's Microscope package to control the devices. The graphical interface and experiments automatically adjust to the existing devices.
- Very fast device control and time precision: During experiments, devices are controlled via hardware signals.
- Cross Platform: Cockpit runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows.
- FOSS: Cockpit is free and open source software, released under the GPL.
The user interface is made up of a number of windows with the main ones shown below.
If you find this project useful, please cite:
Phillips MA, Susano Pinto DM, Hall N et al. Microscope-Cockpit: Python-based bespoke microscopy for bio-medical science. Wellcome Open Res 2021, 6:76 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16610.1)