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Arduino Slicer
Key Investigators
- Paolo Zaffino (Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy)
- Andras Lasso (Queen’s, Canada)
- Mike Halle (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA)
- Steve Pieper (Isomics, USA)
- Attila Nagy (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
- Badiaa Ait Ahmed (University Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Morocco)
- Nayra Pumar Carreras (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
- Mark Asselin (ACMIT Gmbh / Queen’s University, Canada)
- Everyone else is interested in
Project Description
Arduino is a well know and widely used open source microcontroller. Is is extremely cheap (10-20 €/$) and a plenty of sensors and actuators have been desined for this platform. The idea is to implement a link between 3D Slicer and Arudino. Slicer IGT offers an outstanding solution for connecting hardware, but for some entry-level users/students can be difficult to use. We want to develop a thin layer of code to connect cheap hardware (Arduino and its sensor/actuators). In this way the user will have a simple way for linking hardaware, being aware that is a solution that does not offer the full options available in SlicerIGT. It can be useful for students and for not complex data/instruction stream.
Objective
- The main aim right now is to colled ideas/comments/suggestions from experts.
Approach and Plan
- Discuss with people that are already using/developing Arduino stuff.
Progress and Next Steps
- Interesting a breakout session, discussing with experts and people interested in
- We decided to not use SlicerIGT to keep it as simple as possible
- We decided to create an extension with multiple modules inside
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The first layer of code was written (thanks to Andras!)
https://github.com/pzaffino/SlicerArduinoController
- The next step will be to refine the link module and to start writing more modules (one for each possible application).