Fritzing is PCB design software (EDA) in the spirit of Arduino and Processing. It’s open source, cross-platform, streamlined, and simple to use. It doesn’t do simulations, but you can lay out your circuit in a GUI that looks like a prototyping board, then move to…
In many rigs, multiple computers are used, and they need to talk to each other. For example, one computer handles the imaging,…
Quick OSX tip: if you’re finding that your OSX system is quite busy even though you haven’t asked anything of it, check to see if the processes “mds” and “mdworker” are chewing up CPU cycles (view active processes in Activity Monitor).
If so,…
Post by Christoph Schmidt-Hieber
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Here are some relatively pain-free instructions to get NEURON to run with Python support on OS X.
1. Install XCode 3.x. XCode 4 will not work (*). You…
MATLAB version R2011b has just been released. The new format for error messages is not as mind blowing as you might have heard. However, there’s one cute little…
When I’m in a tight spot and don’t have CAD software handy, there are a couple of sites I use to view CAD files online.
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MATLAB Mobile is a way to use MATLAB from an iOS device. It’s cute, but a bit odd, because you used to need to have MATLAB running on your own server in…
Wolfram is pushing a new document format called Computable Document Format (CDF). It looks like PDF + embedded Java apps.
One the one hand, there’s the xkcd viewpoint. This is basically just another…
Last Friday afternoon to Saturday morning I had a marathon data analysis session. It was almost completely in Igor Pro. I used TaroTools so heavily that I dropped Taro another thank you note. It’s really saved me so much programming and analysis time. I highly recommend checking it out. Prof. Ishikawa…
Baudline software (Linux/OSX) is free software for analyzing the spectral components of signals. It’s really well-made and has a lot of features. This can be useful for…
DrawSCH lets you draw schematics online, in a browser window, and then get JPGs or PNGs emailed to you. (link)
PDF export is in the works, but the SVG export works fine, if you want a vector file. Handy.
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On the topic of apps in science… RFspotter is an iPad app for mapping receptive fields on the fly. It’s intended as a quick way to coarsely map a cell’s RF…
There are several MATLAB-related items to post, but individually they don’t amount to much, so I’ll just…
A paper on data organization just came out in Nature Methods (Millard et al. 2011, commentary by Swedlow et al.). They believe, as do I, that using XML schema to…
While on the Gnotero page (a Python app for accessing refs from Zotero, a Firefox plugin-based citation manager, in case you’re wondering), I…
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