FeatureRequest: Support for liquid dispensing machines

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This would likely go in the “Liquid Handling Workstations” category, but would be nice otherwise have some support for those. An example of the one we use is the Tecan D300e (https://lifesciences.tecan.com/products/liquid_handling_and_automation/tecan_d300e_digital_dispenser).

Essentially a machine that dispenses precise volumes of liquid into a microplate, and is smaller than full sized liquid handling workstations. I’d be interested in working on this, but would appreciate some guidance on how people tend to reverse engineer these things.

Thanks all!

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welcome to the forum!

there are essentially three ways to create new interfaces:

  • firmware documentation, which I assume are not available for the d300e
  • looking at the dll and figuring out how it works
  • capturing the usb traffic (How to make packet usb/ftdi captures)