Microdrop is a graphical user interface for the DropBot Digital Microfluidics control system
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MicroDrop is a graphical user interface for the DropBot digital microfluidics control system (described in detail in Fobel et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 193513 (2013)).
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MicroDrop can be installed using any of the methods below.
Download installer for latest MicroDrop 1.0 release.
This installer is a customized distribution of the popular Miniconda
Python.
anaconda (Python 2.7 32-bit Windows) installation (recommended)Run:
conda install -c wheeler-microfluidics "microdrop>=1.0,<2.0" microdrop-launcher
Note the -c wheeler-microfluidics flag allows installing conda packages
from the wheeler-microfluidics channel.
conda environment for MicroDropRun:
conda create -n microdrop -c wheeler-microfluidics "microdrop>=1.0,<2.0" microdrop-launcher
To activate the MicroDrop conda environment, run:
activate microdrop
To deactivate the MicroDrop conda environment, run:
deactivate
See "Managing environments" section of Conda documentation for more information.
pip, not recommended)Update pip:
pip install -U pip
Install microdrop from PyPi:
pip install --find-links http://192.99.4.95/wheels --trusted-host 192.99.4.95 "microdrop>=1.0,<2.0"
Note 192.99.4.95 is the IP address of the official MicroDrop update
server where MicroDrop dependencies not available on PyPI are stored as
wheels.
If MicroDrop is installed using a Conda Python distribution (including the official installer)
If existing profile directory is not automatically found, it can be manually imported by launching the "MicroDrop Profile Manager" shortcut.
See Profile Manager section below.
In environments where, for example, multiple users are using the same computer to perform MicroDrop experiments, it can be helpful to create separate MicroDrop profiles. Each MicroDrop profile contains devices and plugins, as well as experiment logs.
The MicroDrop Profile Manager provides an interface to manage one or more
MicroDrop profiles. Initially, the default profile path (i.e.,
<Documents>\Microdrop) is listed.
As shown below:
When an existing profile is imported, plugin dependencies are installed while the following dialog is displayed:
The following dialog is displayed when the Remove button for a listed profile is clicked:
Clicking the Remove button in the dialog removes the corresponding profile from the list, but does not delete any files. The profile can be imported to add it back to the profile list.
Warning: Clicking the Remove with data button in the dialog removes the corresponding profile from the list, and deletes the profile directory. This cannot be undone.
Plugins can either be installed using the MicroDrop plugin manager command-line tool, or through the MicroDrop user interface.
dmf_control_board
mpm)The Microdrop plugin manager is a command-line tool (inspired by pip) for
managing (e.g., install, uninstall) Microdrop plugins.
For full usage details, see the project home page.
Basic usage to install a plugin:
Start MicroDrop environment command prompt using the following shortcut:
In MicroDrop environment command prompt, run:
python -m mpm -c <microdrop settings directory>\microdrop.ini install plugin [plugin [plugin ...]]
To install featured plugin:
python -m mpm -c <microdrop settings directory>\microdrop.ini install dmf_control_board
Install plugins:
Relaunch MicroDrop.
Ryan Fobel ryan@fobel.net
Christian Fobel christian@fobel.net
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Microdrop is a graphical user interface for the DropBot Digital Microfluidics control system
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