feat(microdrop-2.32): modify plugin to support MicroDrop with asyncio `on_step_run()`

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Background

As of microdrop.dmf-control-board-plugin==2.3.4, the latest version of MicroDrop (i.e., with asyncio on_step_run()) is not supported. However, MicroDrop 2.32 fixes bugs, but also adds support for thresholding for all actuations - including those along routes.

Task

Aaron Wheeler has agreed for the Wheeler Lab to contract Sci-Bots to update microdrop.dmf-control-board-plugin to run with the latest version of MicroDrop. This will help the Wheeler Lab benefit from further improvements to MicroDrop by Sci-Bots down the road.

Approach

Port microdrop.dropbot-plugin to work with the dmf-control-board DropBot 2.0 driver.

This involves the following:

• [x] Remove any code related to functionality not supported by DropBot 2.0 (e.g., DropBot event stream packets, chip detection).
• [x] Re-implement db.threshold functions:
  • actuate_channels()
  • db.threshold.co_target_capacitance()
• [x] Replace self.control_board usage with compatible DropBot 2.0 API calls.
  • hv_output_enabled
  • turn_off_all_channels()
  • measure_capacitance()
  • measure_voltage()
  • transaction_lock
  • state_of_channels
  • voltage
  • frequency
  • Board info, including: name, uuid, hardware version, software version
  • proxy.signals.signal('capacitance-updated')
    • Emulate async capacitance-updated functionality, e.g., through polling
• [x] Integrate MicrodropChannelsAssistantView wizard

• [ ] Port connection code to work for DropBot 2.0

  • [ ] Determine how to detect if 12 V power supply is available

  • [ ] Integrate dmf-control-board-firmware firmware flashing in response to version-mismatch

  • [ ] Ideally low overhead method to detect if a DropBot is connected to any serial port (i.e., equivalent to the base_node_rpc.async._available_devices(timeout=.1)).

    • Implement dmf-control-board-firmware/src/RemoteObject.cpp send_command(), name(), software_version(), hardware_version() in Python using serial/asyncserial?

  • [x] Handle DropBot watchdog timer reset.

  • Given the above functionality, we should be able to port the DropBot 3 dropbot.monitor.monitor() coroutine to the dmf-control-board-firmware package.

Known issues

• Feedback options are no longer supported; see volume_threshold step option instead:

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Test menus

• [x] Tools > DMF control board > Test channels...
• [ ] Tools > DMF control board > Calibration > Calibrate reference load

  (<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>, AttributeError("'DMFControlBoardPlugin' object has no attribute 'calibrations_dir'",), <traceback object at 0x146F3B70>) {}
  File "C:\Users\chris\mc2-x86\envs\md-wheeler-2.34.1rc0\lib\site-packages\pygtkhelpers\gthreads.py", line 260, in _no_return_func
  func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\chris\Documents\GitHub\wheeler-plugins\dmf_control_board_plugin\feedback.py", line 1958, in calibrate_attenuators
  calibrations_dir = self.plugin.calibrations_dir()

• [ ] Tools > DMF control board > Calibration > Open reference load calibration

  (<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>, AttributeError("'DMFControlBoardPlugin' object has no attribute 'calibrations_dir'",), <traceback object at 0x14689440>) {}
  File "C:\Users\chris\mc2-x86\envs\md-wheeler-2.34.1rc0\lib\site-packages\pygtkhelpers\gthreads.py", line 260, in _no_return_func
  func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\chris\Documents\GitHub\wheeler-plugins\dmf_control_board_plugin\feedback.py", line 1868, in load_reference_calibration
  dialog.set_current_folder(self.plugin.calibrations_dir())

• [ ] Tools > DMF control board > Calibration > Calibrate device load
• [ ] Tools > DMF control board > Calibration > Open device load calibration
• [x] Tools > DMF control board > Configuration > Edit settings
• [x] Tools > DMF control board > Configuration > Save to file

  (<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>, AttributeError("'DMFControlBoardPlugin' object has no attribute 'configurations_dir'",), <traceback object at 0x146E8850>) {}
  File "C:\Users\chris\mc2-x86\envs\md-wheeler-2.34.1rc0\lib\site-packages\pygtkhelpers\gthreads.py", line 260, in _no_return_func
  func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\chris\Documents\GitHub\wheeler-plugins\dmf_control_board_plugin\pyutilib.py", line 1492, in save_config_dialog
  dialog.set_current_folder(self.configurations_dir())

• [x] Tools > DMF control board > Configuration > Load from file
• [x] Tools > DMF control board > Configuration > Reset to default values