Re : LabVIEW driver for TECAN or Thermo microplate reader ?

[chilly_charly]

I have to develop a LV program to control a microplate reader (TECAN Infinite 200, or Thermo Electron Varioscan). As anyone some experience on this problem ?

[Omar S.]

Hello CC,

I tried to find information on your micro^plate reader but the results are very poor.

How can I help you to achieve your program?

[chilly_charly]

Omar,

I just needed to know if the coding had been done by somebody or not. The two systems appear quite similar in performance and we have to choose before ordering one. Therefore, the availability of a LabVIEW driver would have been an additionnal info worth attention.

Actually, the work (communication through serial link) should not be too complicated. Thanks for the answer.

[Michael.Proctor]

Hi CC,

I was about to start developing a driver for the Infinity 200 using .Net to add it to my automated Plate Reader LIMS sytem.

We use it to grow yeast cells

I already have connectivety and control to the earlier Tecan Plate Readers ( Genios and Safire) using ActiveX calls to the Tecan RDROLE libraries. It works well, a few memroy leaks aside.

.Net progamming is new to me so I am hoping you may have made a strt that will point me in the right direction - if not I will eventually have something working.

I am alos workign on the Tecan EVO (liquid handling robot ) connectivity.

thanks Michael
Stanford University

[chilly_charly]

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Michael.Proctor a écrit:
Hi CC,

I was about to start developing a driver for the Infinity 200 using .Net to add it to my automated Plate Reader LIMS sytem.

We use it to grow yeast cells

I already have connectivety and control to the earlier Tecan Plate Readers ( Genios and Safire) using ActiveX calls to the Tecan RDROLE libraries. It works well, a few memroy leaks aside.

.Net progamming is new to me so I am hoping you may have made a strt that will point me in the right direction - if not I will eventually have something working.

I am alos workign on the Tecan EVO (liquid handling robot ) connectivity.

thanks Michael
Stanford University

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Hi Michael,

Most of my projects will be on a stand-by for a few months, and I'm not sure the Tecan program will be among the firsts to be revived :(. However, your move could be a good trigger for me !
I also got the Tecan libraries but I only had time to give them a quick look. Being a Macintosh afficionado, my feelings about .Net programming are probably the same as those of a chicken for a monkey wrench 😄
However, things can change assuming I have the proper driving force. We also the use the infinity to study yeast growth. What I would like to do is to program the liquid dispenser according to the growth results.
If YOU point me in the right direction, may be we could soon join our efforts ?
Feel free to contact me either here or directly at chillycharly@free.fr

Cheers

[Michael.Proctor]

Finally after several years of putting it off I am getting more serious about developing a driver for the Tecan Infinite microplate readers.

Even started some initial coding.

However if anyone out there has already a driver developed I would love to have some pointers.

Michael

BTW if anyone needs drivers for the earliar series of Tecan plate readers that use the RdrOLE Active X

COM library calls, I have a fairly mature driver that you might find useful.

... and also for the Tecan EVO liquid handling robot.

[JBC_NI]

Hi Michael,

Could you please, edit your post in a new thread.

Thanks.

[Xuttuh]

Dear Michael,

I would be very interested in your driver for Tecan Evo Liquid Handling Robot - could you give me some details on what exactly you implemented?

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards

[Michael.Proctor]

Hi, 

I hope to get back to you very soon with a copy of my EVO driver.

Very basic and mostly badly written, but it should help as a starting point.

It works and is in use, but I did not really have enough time to work of error or faults handling.

best

Michael

[rzawad]

Hi. Does this driver work for the Tecan Infinite 200 Pro that is a current model being sold on Tecan's website? Thank you!