4 Pyafm is a set of tools for controlling atomic force microscopes. It
5 provides control of AFM postition using both short-range (piezo) and
6 long range (stepper) vertical positioning. There are separate modules
7 for controlling the piezo (pypiezo_) and stepper (stepper_), this
8 module mostly contains methods that require the capabilities of both.
10 This module can optionally include temperature sensing via a pypid_
19 I've packaged pyafm for Gentoo. You need layman_ and my `wtk
20 overlay`_. Install with::
22 # emerge -av app-portage/layman
24 # emerge -av sci-physics/pyafm
26 Although it is not strictly required (thanks to `duck typing`_) you'll
27 probably also want my `stepper`_ package or an equivalent
28 stepper implementation.
34 Pyafm requires the following Python modules:
36 * Pycomedi_ (required directly, and via ``pypiezo``)
38 * Stepper_ (or equivalent stepper implementation)
39 * Pypid_ (optional temperature monitoring and control)
46 Pyafm is available as a Git_ repository::
48 $ git clone git://tremily.us/pyafm.git
50 There are also periodic bundled releases. For example, get version
51 0.3 as a gzipped tarball with::
53 $ wget 'http://git.tremily.us/?p=pyafm.git;a=snapshot;h=v0.3;sf=tgz'
54 $ tar -xzvf pyafm-0.1.tar.gz
60 After downloading, change to the source directory and run::
62 $ python setup.py install
64 to install pyafm. Run::
66 $ python setup.py install --help
68 to see a list of installation options you may want to configure.
77 .. _layman: http://layman.sourceforge.net/
78 .. _wtk overlay: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/Gentoo_overlay/
79 .. _duck typing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
80 .. _pycomedi: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/pycomedi/
81 .. _pypiezo: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/pypiezo/
82 .. _stepper: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/stepper/
83 .. _pypid: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/pypid/
84 .. _h5config: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/h5config/
85 .. _SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/
86 .. _Git: http://git-scm.com/