Neurolabware SfN party v2.0
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2015 Kavli Futures Symposium for Neurotechnologies
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The 2015 Kavli Futures Symposium on “Next Generation NeuroTechnologies” will be Sept 26 in NYC. Freeman, Ji, Svoboda, Pillow, and others are all speaking. Here’s a link. Registration is filling up fast.
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Calcium imaging analysis GUI for MATLAB
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Stephan (currently in the Gilbert lab @ Rockefeller) wrote in to share his code for analyzing calcium signalling data in MATLAB. Thanks, Stephan!
Stephan writes…
I made a MATLAB GUI that automatically extracts ROIs from…
CodeV, Zemax, OSLO, or …
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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…
PackIO for NI devices
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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…
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…
Preprints and the wide field of view 2-photon
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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…
an hdf5/matlab file browser
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Michael Graupner has coded a nice program for browsing and managing hdf5 files (closely related to MATLAB files) called hdf5Manager. And it’s open source.
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A custom swivel/gimbal for luers
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This from Matt Palmatier:
Drug self-administration labs need swivels and there are plenty of medical devices (rotating luer fittings) that perform this function for pretty cheap. However, suppliers-that-shall-remain-nameless charge quite a bit for simple luer…
Raspberry Pi mini monitor
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Labrigger has been experimenting with Raspberry Pis. We still find a lot of uses for Arduinos for little jobs around experimental rigs. Their simplicity and predictable performance (no background processes) make them easy to implement…
Clearing out a gmail account
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If your gmail account gets filled up and you need more space, you could pay for an upgraded gmail account with more storage. Or you can clear out space. For clearing out space, there are…
New spike inference for SIMA
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Following up SIMA, which has been covered here before:
The SIMA team has released a new version of its toolbox that includes a spike inference algorithm developed by Eftychios Pnevmatikakis and Liam Paninski’s…
Inexpensive IR viewer options
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From Benjamin Judkewitz:
I needed an IR viewer to see a Ti:S beam and was really surprised to find that most viewers still sell for > 1000 € (or $). Visualizing NIR used to be…
Lens designs
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In the talk I gave at the Short Course at SfN 2014, I briefly discussed the process of optical system design. A common strategy is to start with a published design, or at…
RStudio – MATLAB-like IDE for R
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Carson Chow recently shared his post-MATLAB suite of programming tools, and it involves RStudio, which is open-source. “I had planned to replace Matlab with Python, Julia, and R but I have…