sparks-baird/self-driving-lab-demo

Software and instructions for setting up and running a self-driving lab (autonomous experimentation) demo using dimmable RGB LEDs, an 8-channel spectrophotometer, a microcontroller, and an adaptive design algorithm, as well as extensions to liquid- and solid-based color matching demos.

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This project provides software and instructions to build and run a "self-driving lab" demonstration for various experimentation scenarios. It takes hardware commands for devices like LEDs or pumps, along with real-time measurements from a spectrophotometer, to autonomously optimize an experiment using adaptive design algorithms. This is ideal for university instructors and researchers who want to teach or prototype autonomous experimentation principles without significant investment.

Available on PyPI.

Use this if you are an educator or researcher looking for an affordable, accessible, and modular way to demonstrate or prototype autonomous experimentation, especially for optics, liquid, or solid material mixing and color matching.

Not ideal if you are looking for a plug-and-play solution for complex, high-throughput industrial automation without any assembly or coding, or if your primary focus is on theoretical simulation rather than hands-on experimental control.

autonomous-experimentation materials-discovery optics-research chemistry-education laboratory-automation
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MIT

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Nov 24, 2025

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