The Microplate Assistive Pipetting Light Guide (M.A.P.L.E.) is a custom, open source platform designed to illuminated 96- and 384-well microplates. The core component of the system is an in-house designed LED matrix which matches the SBS microplate footprint and has a red/green/blue (RGB) light emitting diode (LED) under each well. These custom RGB LED panels can be easily programmed using any 5V microcontroller and allow full user control to support applications such as manual cherry picking when labware is damaged and cannot be used on automated platforms.
Additional information regarding these custom LED panels and the M.A.P.L.E. system have been published in the SLAS Technology and the Journal of Visualized Experiments and can be found below.
Design of Microplate-Compatible Illumination Panels for a Semiautomated Benchtop Pipetting System
Baillargeon et al.
SLAS Technology
January 2019
PMID: 30698997
Applications for Open Source Microplate-Compatible Illumination Panels
Baillargeon et al.
Journal of Visualized Experiments
October 2019
PMID: 31633701
