A web-based application developed to take ultra-high resolution pictures of seedlings on petri plates and control a camera-mounted robotic arm.

• Open web-standards (javascript, html) interface, with remote access.
• Integration into different databases formats and cloud-based services
  • Database Formats:
    • MongoDB
    • SQL
  • Cloud-based services:
    • Cyverse
    • Box
    • Dropbox
• Hooks to allow user-pluggable scripts for amending/changing default functionality (can easily implement these as express.js middleware functions, or better yet, python bindings)
  • occur at certain events — user registers callbacks for these events, and if registered, their hook binding is called
  • Potential events (look at gphoto2 hooks for inspiration):
    • Before arm movement
    • After arm movement, before picture (center picture, change exposure, look for QR code, etc.)
    • After picture (picture download) (post-processing — rename pictures, upload to DB, etc)
• Integration with open-source image capture libraries such as libgphoto2
• Stateful - Can save projects descriptions to reload, and can load settings from any browser (remote or local) to look at current status and halt/change settings.