I will be adding source files, links, and other details over the next few weeks. Everything is or will be open-sourced.

The motor mounts and gears that are matched to the manual control wheels on the microscope are all specific to the microscope I bought. I suspect that there are many models from the same company that can use the designs as is, but it's likely you will have to modify the designs for your own. That means getting out a rule and other measuring tools to determine mount points, etc.

As of this initial post, what is working includes:

• XY stage motors mounted
  • Gears made and mounted on steppers and matching microscope XY spindles
• Arduino-based mouse input and motor control
• Hall sensor XY automatic homing
• Illuminated push-button rotary encoder and second push button mounted and interfaced to Arduino
  • Encoder push button used to enter parameter setting mode
    • Set fast and slow speeds for motors
  • Other push button used to change mode; fast and slow XY, fast and slow focus

May try to add a "slide center" mode.

Moving on to testing mouse XY control integration ("unit" tests complete), then starting on focus mechanical.