Microscopy Hackathon 3

Talk to your microscope.

An assistant for electron microscopy, in one desktop app.

Get startedSee how it works

Read the current defocus.

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The assistant calls the tool on the instrument you ticked, then reports the value.

Practice on a twin.
Then use the real thing.

Twin 3 simulates a Talos F200X in the app. It answers the same AutoScript calls as a microscope, so the assistant takes the same path to both.

Meet the Digital Twin

One path to every instrument.

An instrument is a host:port. Nothing above the device service needs to know which one it is.

You talk to the assistant, which goes through Tango and the device service to the Digital Twin or a microscope.
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Yours to approve.

Register and approve instruments on your own computer. No server involved.

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Built on a real harness.

DeepSeek Harness runs the agent loop, tools and sessions.

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Extend it yourself.

Write a Cordis plugin in two files and install it from a folder.

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One app to install.

Tango, the twin and the assistant start for you.

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A knowledge base built in.

The Wiki keeps skills, papers, manuals and your history searchable, with citations.

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Help us build it.

Open problems in the twin, GUI control, workflows and the harness.

Where it stands.

Tested on macOS on Apple Silicon. Windows and Linux are configured but not tested, and it has not yet been used with a real microscope.

What is not done yet