Monthly archives: July, 2015

CodeV, Zemax, OSLO, or …

Trying to decide which optical design software to use? Just try them out and decide for yourself. I like how Steve Eckhardt (great guy, btw, in case you’re looking for someone to consult with) summarized…



PackIO for NI devices

Adam Packer wrote some LabVIEW software for acquiring and generating data from National Instruments cards called PackIO. It is meant to trigger and synchronize equipment as well as record any data, with a few…



Voice control

Voice control has just recently become interesting to me. Ikuko bought me an Amazon Echo and I’m surprised at how useful I find it. I’m also surprised at how well it works– it can decipher…



Preprints and the wide field of view 2-photon

The preprint for the wide field of view 2-photon system we built has been updated. Check it out at bioRxiv.org.

Preprint servers are a great way to share work-in-progress. ArXiv and …