The TriggerScope Controller

I’m happy to announce a new product for microscopy, the “TriggerScope” controller system. I hope this device will prove itself useful in many areas of microscopy, but the basic idea is that it can drive scope components via manual control, TTL triggering, or PC control.

Let’s say you have a laser and want to drive it, but want to use Micro-Manager, and there isn’t a straightforward driver solution – with this device, you can run the laser right from the triggerscope, control the firing sequence of the laser based on a camera, manual, timed or software input, or just control the laser manually. A block diagram of such a setup would look like this:

Here’s an example of a ramp setup showing on/off of 2 triggers (say 2 lasers) and stepping of the DAC output (in this example we could send the DAC to a focus motor)

The Controller can also be used as a straight controlled DAC system, where your PC drives the box and the box sends out TTL and/or Voltage values out. More information can be found on the website for the device.

The device shown is the base system – I can build these with up to 9 DAC outputs, and 20 TTL outputs. Custom software is also available should you want to do something unique with this. Also – the firmware and software code is provided with the device, so you can add to it if you like! As far as I know, this is the first device to be provided with open source firmware & drivers.

If you’d like more info on this, please get in touch!