Monthly archives: September, 2013

Fast resonant scanning two-photon scope from UCLA

Here’s an update on the scope from Joshua Trachtenberg’s team. If you want one, contact them at: info.neurolabware@gmail.com

This is another moving objective microscope, like the Sutter (Denk/MOM) scope, and the Thorlabs scope. Here’s a couple…



Bruker buys Prairie

You might recognize the Bruker brand from their small animal MRI machines. It’s a decently large company (market cap $3.4B).

They just bought Prairie Technologies, the Madison, WI-based manufacturer of multiphoton microscopes ($11M in 2012 revenue). They’ll…



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The magazine Popular Science dates back to 1872. It’s older than Nature (1879), Science (1880), and American Scientist (1913). It was originally an academic journal, before it split into two parts, with the academic portion eventually being absorbed into Science. It’s high quality scientific…



Voltset – Multimeter plugs into Android phone

The Voltset devices plug into an Android phone and offer multimeter-type functions. The Mini Voltset measures voltage and continuity. The Mega Voltset adds resistance measurements.



Intel’s Minnowboard

About a year ago Labrigger covered the Raspberry Pi, a single board computer. In some ways, it’s like a high-powered Arduino, but really, it’s a miniature PC. Albeit, a PC that uses an ARM processor,…



Evolved gears

They’re part of this guy:



Hypnotic metamorphosis



Autocorrelator for under $5k

Autocorrelators can be used to measure the pulse width of ultrafast lasers. This can be useful for troubleshooting dispersion in your 2-photon imaging system and generally troubleshooting laser issues. They are big ticket items and often cost…



Linux development boards

Open Electronics has a nice overview and comparison of Linux Development boards like the Raspberry Pi.