Turning a 3D Printer into an Automated Imaging Platform? The EnderScope Makes It Possible Transforming a 3D printer into an automated image acquisition system? That’s the bold and successful challenge taken up by the EnderScope, an ingenious setup featured in a new article published in SoftwareX and co-authored by Jérôme Mutterer, head of the microscopy platform at the IBMP.
In this publication, the authors present a Python-based software library designed to control the EnderScope with ease. Tailored for beginners, the library provides high-level functions to operate the hardware components, making it ideal for testing, teaching, and developing computational imaging algorithms. This project fully aligns with efforts to make microscopy technologies more accessible, modular, and educational, by combining open-source hardware with free software development.
The IBMP’s involvement in this type of innovation reflects its commitment to supporting original technical approaches in the service of research and education.
