IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) Links

What is IRIS?

• Initial arxiv paper (2023, for academic citations)
• Introductory blog post
• Automated imaging overview
• Demo video

IRIS Hardware

Blog posts

• 2-Axis Multihead Light Positioner
• Kinematically coupled fine focus stage
• Light source electronic design

Try It at Home

• Video: How to modify a USB microscope camera to do IRIS (in hd)
• Hardware design source files

The 3D motion platform is the open-source Jubilee3D

• Design source: Github
• Build it: Assembly Wiki
• Use it: Science Jubilee application documentation
• Parts kit: via Filistruder

IRIS Software

Blog posts

• Control and autofocus software
• Automated image stitching

Github

• Jubilee control program
• Fine focus RP2040 driver
• Light source RP2040 driver
• Stiching software

Works in progress (last updated Dec 2024)

• Automated image analysis

IRIS Datasets

Raw imaging and design data sets for open source designs imaged using IRIS.
Of interest mostly to researchers using the stitching and machine learning scripts.
All imaging data are shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

• primary
• mirror (tracks primary with ~1h delay)

Talks, Media & More

• Hackaday Europe 2025 (20 minutes)
• 38C3 talk (December 2024)
• NLNet Webinar (May 2024)
• Siliconpr0n image collection

Sponsors

This work is 100% open source and available for the community to rip/mix/burn, thanks to the generosity of these sponsors:

• NLNet foundation for an NGI Zero Entrust grant that gave me the latitude to explore without raising VC or academic institutional overhead
• Github sponsors for unrestricted donations that help buy coffee & food to keep me going