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# System prepended metadata

title: Light table

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# Light table
## Summary
| user | usecase | physical dimensions | other info|
| -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| Andrey     | proprietary robot    | N/A   | N/A |
| Alexis     | BioRad imager, Opentrons     | small enough to fit in a BioRad, an OT-2 or and incubator.  | N/A|
| Zoltan     | Opentrons     | should fit into a opentrons deck slot     | should hold a one-well plate |


## use cases

### Andrey

### Alexis

* lighttable to illuminate the plate at different wavelengths to take a picture that is going to be analyzed to distinguish between colonies (some express fluorescent protein, some don't).
* Colony growth monitoring on a plate.
* Potentially automated colony picking (using the OT-2)
* I'm still investigating other ways to take pictures but so far the biorad is the best thing I found in the lab.

### Zoltan
Inspired by the Magdeburg [IGEM team](https://2019.igem.org/Team:Marburg/Hardware)
#### opentrons setup
* lighttable in one deck position
* a BioShake D30-T elm shaker from QInstruments in another position w/ falcon tube (and media inside)

#### Imaging 
* camera mounted on the opentrons pipetting arm (c.f. Magdeburg team)
* Raspberry PI has a camera module with C-mount image sensor: [here](https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera/)

## light table specification

### light source
* white color (lumen?) 
* how many color? can we use the ChiBio wavelength?
* adjustable light intensity?
### physical dimensions
* maximum height? 
### UI/control
* pocket beagle, webpage+API

