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.
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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…
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…
Open Electronics has a nice overview and comparison of Linux Development boards like the Raspberry Pi.
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Carnegie Mellon is a magical place for robotics, and their CMUcam, an open source hardware project for machine vision, has recently culminated in Pixy. This is a wildly funded Kickstarter project (funded at…
4D Systems sells screens and touchscreens for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other systems. Importantly, the code is portable (mentioned in the video above), they have good support, and the hardware plugs right into the boards. It doesn’t get much easier than this. They have resellers…
This isn’t an advertisement. I wasn’t asked to post this. I just want to let you all know in case it’s useful. Newport is having a sale on optics and many of the discounts are…
Neverwet is now available for about $20.
This is a spray-on, 2-part superhydrophobic coating (translucent when dry). What would it be useful for in a lab? For starters, spraying it on anything that needs to be cleaned regularly might make it easier to clean. Also, it can…
There have been wrappers for interfacing with the Kinect device before, but the latest update to MATLAB makes it native to the Image Processing Toolbox. source
Drop a Kinect in…
I find WPI’s Kwik-Cast handy for some things around the lab. When we were modest users, the price didn’t bother me too much. However, when we started going through so much of it, I wondered…
No. I don’t think so.
Anyways, CaliCode is a resource for population calcium imaging. It covers topics from inferring action potential trains from imaging data (hat tip to JV), to image processing and topical papers….
Editorial preface: Labrigger takes submissions from anyone. We post them if they’re potentially useful. In this case, we received some material from a commercial source. Labrigger is not endorsing their products. But we recognize that…
If you’re like most people, you can get the vast majority of your holiday shopping done at Edmund Optics. They’re having a Cyber Monday sale this Monday, November 26th. Use code Cyber12 at checkout.
Here’s the…
Inventables is a web retailer with a decent site that makes it easy to find raw materials and interesting components. E.g., stretch-sensing rubber and conductive velcro.
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Coax BNC cables come in two flavors, 50 ohm and 75 ohm. For experimental rigs (PMTs, DAQs, amplifiers), always buy 50 ohm cables. The 75 ohm versions are for video…
