Monthly archives: March, 2011

Mar162011March 16, 2011March 16, 20112Commentsby L.

Mini oscilloscopes

Posted in Hardware

Seeed Studio repurposed parts for cheap MP3 players and made a production miniature oscilloscope, the DSO nano. I like this small tool and bought one of the first iterations (see image above). It’s…

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Mar132011March 13, 2011March 13, 20111Commentby L.

OpenOptogenetics

Posted in Hardware, Tips

When Karl Deisseroth started publishing his work on Channelrhodopsin-2, he set up a website to share the resources, including plasmid information, protocols for expression systems, and hardware details. His site, optogenetics.org, is an excellent…

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Mar112011March 11, 2011March 11, 20111Commentby L.

Laser pointers and quantum mechanics

Posted in Hardware

Laser pointers are handy sources for…

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Mar032011March 3, 2011March 3, 20110Commentby L.

More MATLAB code for 2p scope design

Posted in Software

In the last post, I mentioned how the “minification” factor (the diameter of the PMT detector divided by the diameter or the…

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