About the Heron framework

Heron is an open source software conceived as an experiment (and general data) pipeline implementation tool. It allows users to realise their conceptual experimental designs such that the final result, i.e. the implementation running the experiment, visually and structurally bears a significant resemblance to its mental schema, i.e. the idea of the experiment in the experimenter’s imagination.

Heron combines a Node based experiment designer with a Python API allowing users to quicly construct and add their own Nodes. It fully obfuscates the Node communication from the user and offers seamless communication between separate machines running different operating systems.