FAlCon is a community-driven ecosystem building the tools that help labs get quantum-dot devices back into operation faster and more reproducibly. This org is actively under development: repos, demos, and example flows are coming online. Welcome — you’ve found the project's front door.

Why this org exists

• Experiments take too long to recover after maintenance and cooldowns. FAlCon makes the recovery and tuning steps repeatable and sharable across labs.
• We build instrument control, measurement logging, simulation harnesses, reusable autotuning algorithms, and user-facing tooling that together span the full measurement stack.
• This is the org-level entry: think of this README as the map and invitation to join a community shaping the toolkit.

This is a work in progress

• Many codebases and a proper demo are in active development and will appear here as repos come online.
• Instead of waiting for a finished demo, we want to onboard contributors now — documentation, designs, tests, small utilities, and simulations are high-impact ways to help today.

Who should read this

• Experimentalists: want robust routines to speed up bring-up and calibration
• Software engineers: want to build lab automation and instrumentation tooling
• Students & newcomers: want hands-on, reproducible ways to learn device tuning

Explore (what will live here)

• Core primitives: device models, tuning primitives, simulation harness
• Algorithms & flows: search, fit, state-detection, flow orchestration
• UI & visualization: monitoring, dashboards, and manual override interfaces
• Docs & examples: tutorials, HOWTOs, and onboarding materials

How you can help today (no demo required)

• Improve or write docs: onboarding pages, architecture overviews, and HOWTOs are the fastest way to help.
• Curate & triage issues: help label, categorize, and prioritize repo issues so newcomers can find good-first tasks.
• Design assets & UX ideas: draft wireframes or mockups for the dashboard and monitoring pages.
• Community building: add short “Welcome” notes, a FAQ, or triage backlog items.

Repository conventions & signals

• Branches: main = stable; dev/* for new work

Governance & community norms

• Lightweight maintainer model by repository. PR reviews and tests are required for code merges.
• Please follow the Code of Conduct.
• Security or sensitive issues: report privately to the maintainers.

Licenses

• Components use MPL and BSD-3-Clause; check each repository's LICENSE file for specifics.

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