Monthly archives: March, 2018

Cleaning and storing lenses and optics

The easy ways aren’t usually the best ways. This might be an exception. Check out the video.

This is an interesting product for cleaning and storing lenses. It’s called “First Contact”, and is made by…



Custom touchscreen behavior systems for rodents

Lisa Saksida and Tim Bussey turned touchscreen systems into high throughput tools for rodent behavior assays. When I visited their lab in Cambridge (they’re now based at U Western Ontario in London, Canada, between Detroit,…



Remote focusing with deformable mirrors

There are lots of ways to quickly change the z-focus plane, including tunable lenses, piezo objective movers, and a coupled objective. What is the best way to change the Z-focus…