The OpenSPIM project is a collaboration between multiple labs to establish an accessible, easily adjustable light sheet microscope system.

The SPIMAcquisition plugin for Micro Manager is the primary means to acquire image stacks with the OpenSPIM setups.

Where to get the latest development build

This project is built and tested by the ImageJ Jenkins server:

http://jenkins.imagej.net/view/OpenSPIM/job/SPIMAcquisition/

The latest builds including sources and javadoc attachments are available on that web site, too.

How to build yourself

This project is a regular Maven project, drawing on the SciJava project. You can import it into your IDE of choice (such as Eclipse, IntelliJ, Netbeans, etc) or build it from the command-line:

mvn

This builds the SPIMAcquisition plugin which can then be installed by copying target/SPIMAcquisition-<version>.jar into Fiji.app/mmplugins/.

Installing into a Micro-Manager directory instead of Fiji

The SPIMAcquisition plugin depends on a couple of components that are shipped with Fiji but not with Micro-Manager. Therefore, you will have to work a little harder if you want to install the plugin into a vanilla Micro-Manager as downloaded from the Micro-Manager website:

1. Run mvn dependency:copy-dependencies in the SPIMAcquisition directory
2. From target/dependency/ in that subdirectory, copy the imglib2-*.jar files to your Micro-Manager's mmplugins/ subdirectory.
3. Copy target/SPIMAcquisition-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar to the mmplugins/ subdirectory, too.
4. Restart Micro-Manager.