Important

Archived on 2026-08-15. Maintained sound-exposure automation, research artifacts, and turbidity/lux analysis have moved to Algae Research Toolkit. This repository remains intact as a read-only historical record. See the migration guide.

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Base Algae Sound Experiment

Python research workspace for an algae sound-frequency experiment. The project includes one script for running timed tone exposure in Microsoft Edge and one script for plotting measured turbidity/lux data.

Project Structure

• algae_sound_experiment_edge.py: automates a browser tone generator and logs exposure sessions.
• graph.py: plots grouped algae turbidity/lux measurements with error bars.
• algae_sound_experiment_log.csv: logged experiment sessions.
• Base.pptx, EEC-33.pdf, and the included journal PDF: reference/presentation materials.

Setup

python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

On Windows, use .venv\Scripts\python.exe.

Run Tone Exposure

.venv/bin/python algae_sound_experiment_edge.py

Important runtime notes:

• The script uses Microsoft Edge and Selenium.
• Windows-only volume control uses pycaw and comtypes.
• TEST_MODE = True currently runs short 10-second exposures; set it to False for the full configured duration.

Plot Results

.venv/bin/python graph.py

Notes

• The experiment script opens an external tone-generator website.
• Logged CSV data and reference documents are kept because they are part of the research workspace.
• Local virtual environments and matplotlib caches should stay out of git.