April 24th - 9am PT

Developer Meetings
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Next meeting is April 24th - 9am PT.

Backlink to last meeting’s notes: Next developer meeting: march 27 9am PT - #6 by rickwierenga

Last one was a lot of presentation/talking, next one will be more collaborative after people played around with the v1 beta.

Agenda for this meeting will be made/finalized in this thread. Please comment if you have stuff you want to present/discuss/ask!

Please comment/DM if you want to join and haven’t attended a previous meeting.

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agenda:

  • Tecan Fluent support / working group
  • discussing of v1b1 status, merging it into main for further development. v0 will live on a dying branch for backward updates
  • new machines:
    • xArm6 (@rob.keyser)
    • Multidrop Combi (@rob.keyser)
    • Echo (WIP, Alex Godfrey, Reed Kelso)
    • Prep (WIP, @Cody)
    • Mantis (WIP, Bo Tu)
    • KX2 (me)
  • open source scheduler working group proposal (Junyu Chen)

feel free to post more below

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  • Tecan Fluent support / working group

    Invite please :slight_smile:

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we will also discuss camillo’s “ultra-instinct pipetting” project

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Notes:

  • Tecan is helping us develop the Fluent. Will be a private working group while they work on a public release. DM me if you want in.
  • Will be merging v1 into main very soon, and new development should target v1. Some v0 stuff will live on a branch for updates, but will not really be maintained.
  • Discussion of new machines (see above).
    • Prep essentially working for all features, including error handling. On a firmware level. The Prep will have a new Head8 capability. It might have independent channel pickup, needs to be tested.
    • Prep is already supported in PyHamilton and Stefan has written 5 NGS protocols for the Prep with it: GitHub - stefangolas/NGS-Protocols · GitHub. Would be cool to port this to PLR.
    • @alexgodfrey and Reed Kelso have worked on the Echo 655 and 650. Others in the community have an Echo 525 and 550, so will be pretty comprehensive.
  • Working / interest group for an open source scheduling layer by Junyu Chen. He will be organizing a dedicated meeting to discuss more, please indicate interest!
  • @cwehrhan is working on the Hamilton MPE, it will use @Cody’s TCP from v1b1 (latest branch: GitHub - cmoscy/pylabrobot at prep-v1 · GitHub)
  • We will switch to toml for labware definitions (Toml instead of .py files for labware) at some point
  • Starting grpc development when v1 architecture settles , meaning very soon (@koeng already has stuff working)
  • “Ultra instinct pipetting” (@CamilloMoschner will write a dedicated forum post)
    • batching / positioning / pLLD on channels
  • “Taming the iswap” (@CamilloMoschner will write a dedicated forum post)
    • please get in touch if you have an IPG (vantage might have IPG)
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