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ARGUS-LP — building a long-term live-cell tracker on OpenFlexure #116

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@djabbat

Hi — just wanted to say hello and show what we're doing with your microscope.

We're building ARGUS-LP, an autonomous 24/7 cell lineage tracking platform on top of OpenFlexure v6.1.5. The scope watches cells for weeks in a climate-controlled box (37°C, CO₂, HEPA-filtered), segments with CellPose, tracks lineages with a Bayesian tracker, and uses a 405 nm laser from below for targeted cell ablation.

We picked OpenFlexure because the upright geometry makes water immersion straightforward — the 60× objective points down, gravity holds the water. The laser comes up through the glass-bottom dish.

Everything is open: GPLv3 for code, CC-BY-SA for hardware mods. We've forked the microscope repo into our org as the hardware base.

Repo: https://github.com/Georgia-Longevity-Alliance/ARGUS-LP
Fork: https://github.com/Georgia-Longevity-Alliance/openflexure_microscope

Happy to contribute back anything that's useful — laser port integration, climate controller, whatever makes sense. We're just getting started (printing V1 this week) but wanted to introduce ourselves early.

Cheers,
Jaba

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