[micro-manager-general] Micro-manager and arduino

[Cindy M. <cmm...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,  I have a unique imaging application that I'm trying to
develop with the help of Micro manager so that I have less image data and
steps to go through.

 I have a stepper motor that is used to rotate a vial and to image I have a
ccd camera. I will be using fluorescence staining to image some particles
inside the vial and want to image the entire surface of the vial to image
all particles in the vial. I use the step motor to rotate the vial. I tried
to do this using imageJ but I will have a lot of image data to analyze and
I'm trying to cut down on steps if possible.

What I'm trying to do is to take an image at a specified motor position and
continue to do this until the vial has rotated one full revolution. Then
stitch all images together to get the entire surface of the vial with
minimized distortion.

 I have a Point Grey Chameleon camera that I was able to configure in micro
manager. I was also able to connect an arduino using the micro manager wiki
and currently have this as a shutter. I have a separate arduino to control
the step motor. I'd like to sync both the motor and micro manager so that
at a specified position Micro manager takes a picture, sends a signal to
the motor, the motor moves again, then Micro manager takes another picture.
This  process would continue until one entire revolution is completed. I'd
like to know if something like this could be done easily with Micro
manager. I do not have coding or electronics experience and all that I have
done has been based on reading tutorials online. If you can provide some
insight into how I would be able to do this or direct me to other tutorials
I would highly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Quiroz-1