Authored by Colten Wimmer, COO at Byonoy.
Byonoy has been heavily involved in the 'integration' space vis à vis laboratory automation for a while now and has been party to the efforts to unify device/LIMS/software communication amongst disparate systems, architectures, languages, compatibility states, and price-points. We also faced questions with our own infrastructure. Many of our early adopters liked the simplicity of the ASCII interface we provided for our first generation Absorbance 96, but we had already decided to move to HID for subsequent generations and our "Automate" product lineup. We also saw the need early on for users to be able to interface with our instruments without really needing our software. To support such integration efforts, we developed our SDK and make it available to customers and partners alike, who were able to benefit from its depth, but also high-level simplicity via its Python wrapper. As it turns out, many of the decisions we made along the way made us AI ready, whether we knew it or not.
A good example of this is Tetsuwan's recent use of our Absorbance 96 Automate via the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), developed by HHMI Janelia and Anthropic, which worked without us having to lift a finger.
From the article:
"Executing the experiment
We dispensed a tartrazine tracer into plates under a controlled batch of cells and read absorbance through MHS on a Byonoy plate reader, which gives us delivered volume per well, and from that precision and accuracy per cell."
While I wish we could say that we were directly involved and offered support at every point along the way, the truth is, Tetsuwan just used the device and documentation available. Also from the article:
"To enable MHS without official vendor support, we equipped each instrument with an SBC that acts as a connector."
This 'accidental' alignment meant that we only needed to make the most minor of tweaks to our systems to make them not only fully compatible, but easily discoverable. For example, just handing your coding agent's session this link is enough to start telling our instruments to initialize, read, and report. We joke internally about the simplicity of prompting agents, but seriously, it's almost as simple as "do Byonoy stuff". I tried it myself with a Luminescence 96; here's what it looks like:
[Here's a link to do it yourself (provided you have a Byonoy reader, of course)]: https://git.byonoy.com/public/byonoy_devices_sdk
1. Hand the link to Claude Code (or your current coding agent)
Roughly 3 minutes later.
2. A Measurement
And that's it.
