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
Head8capability. 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.
- Prep essentially working for all features, including error handling. On a firmware level. The Prep will have a new
- 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)