Code for Thought [EN] PyMoDAQ: No more reinventing the wheel - with Sébastien Weber
Nov 18, 2025
32:25
Connecting instruments and managing data transfer between machines is bread and butter stuff for scientists. But you don't want to do the same thing each time you get a new machine or change to another one. Which is why my guest Sébastien Weber from Toulouse, France, created PyMoDAQ, an Open Source Python tool to help you with automating all of that.
Links:
- https://pymodaq.cnrs.fr/en/latest/
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdoHByMKfIdn-N51goippSSP_9iG4wds YouTube playlist
- https://jt-pymodaq25.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
- https://github.com/PyMoDAQ/PyMoDAQ GitHub repo
- https://github.com/CEMES-CNRS/pymodaq_plugin_manager
Papers:
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032116 Review of scientific instruments paper
- https://www.scientia.global/dr-sebastien-weber-pymodaq-navigating-the-future-of-data-acquisition/
- https://www.photoniques.com/articles/photon/pdf/2024/06/photon2024129p25.pdf
Some of the technology stack:
- https://www.pyqtgraph.org Python QT interface
- https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/
- https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro PyQT
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