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A Python web-application to turn a Raspberry Pi and PiCam into a microscopy solution

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========== picroscopy

Picroscopy is a small Python web-application which is intended for usage with a Raspberry Pi_ as a microscopy solution. With the Raspberry Pi Camera_ mounted on a microscope, the Raspberry Pi provides a live video feed to its monitor via HDMI, while another machine can be used to control the setup via a web-based interface.

The project is written in Python_ 3 and is open-sourced under the GPL license. Packages can be downloaded from the project homepage. The source code_ can be obtained from GitHub. The documentation_ can be read on ReadTheDocs.

.. _Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/ .. _Raspberry Pi Camera: http://www.raspberrypi.org/camera .. _homepage: https://www.waveform.org.uk/picroscopy/ .. _documentation: http://picroscopy.readthedocs.org/ .. _source code: https://github.com/waveform80/picroscopy.git .. _Python: http://python.org/ .. _GPL license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html