Air hockey for mice
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Mobile HomeCage is a different approach for awake, behaving experiments. It’s from Helsinki-based Neurotar.
Their marketing video is worth a viewing. You won’t regret it.
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Voltset – a smart multimeter for your smartphone
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We’ve covered Voltset before. It’s a small multimeter with no display. It plugs into a smartphone for its user interface and logging data (there’s a Bluetooth module as well). This approach opens the possibility of developing interesting custom applications that are discussed on the video above,…
Unusual breadboards from Vere
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Vere is a smaller company that Newport, Thorlabs, or TMC. But they’re worth checking out for optical tables, breadboards, beam stops, dumps, enclosures, and whatnot. They have some interesting items.
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Lightglass Optics – used optomechanics
Lightglass Optics sells surplus optomechanics and other related optics. They have a lot of Newport products, and small amounts of products from Thorlabs, OptoSigma, New Focus, and Line Tool.
For example, here’s an Newport X-Y…
Open source turbidostat, syringe pump, and more
Jacob Forstater (UNC-Chapel Hill, Physics) shared this tip: The Klavins lab is sharing their materials for this open source turbidostat. The wiki offers detailed plans and well-document construction. Even if you don’t need a…
Gobs of DIY TB storage
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These units sell for about $5k, and hold 45 drives. Since 4 TB drives are pretty common these days and cost about $120 each, this scheme can provide about 180 TB for a grand total…
3D printed servo mount for motorizing a correction collar
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This is from Kurt’s Microscopy Blog.
Just this month we could have made use of something like this.
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New algorithm for Open-SPIM
Labrigger talked about the Open-SPIM project last year. Since then, the project has proven to be vibrant and strong, with continuous improvements.
Recently Stephan Preibisch came up with a multiview deconvolution algorithm (data pictured…
Custom enclosures, great and small
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A friend recently asked me about custom enclosures. I thought they wanted something small for electronics, and there are a couple of previous Labrigger posts that could be helpful.
Over 100 DIY pieces of lab equipment
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Labrigger previously mentioned this contest. All of the 173 projects are online for your perusal. See if any of them inspire you.
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Controlling a bunch of servos
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A friend just asked a quick question: How can I make a bunch of cheap (not fast) laser shutters? Here’s a quick answer: For motors, servos are pretty easy to use. Put a piece of…
EasyEDA – Electronics design in a browser
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EasyEDA is an online electronic design automation (EDA) tool. It has all the required parts: schematic drawing, simulation, and PCB layout. It also has some nice features that make sharing easy. Not…
OpenPicoAmp: an open lipid bilayer amplifier
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Up on arXiv just recently, is Shlyonsky, Dupuis, and Gall’s OpenPicoAmp. They pitch it as an educational tool, and that’s probably what it’s best suited for, but the recordings look nice. It’s a fun PDF…
Mouser’s open hardware site
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Mouser has a new open hardware site that makes it easy to compare different platforms by specifications.
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