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Although Labrigger got some positive feedback on the last redesign, some of the more obsessive readers complained that the tile/card format made it difficult to systematically review recent posts….
Managing expectations
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In a spartan office looking across Lake Geneva to the French Alps, Henry Markram is searching for a suitably big metaphor to describe his latest project. “It’s going to be the Higgs boson of…
Open Ephys
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Open Ephys is a well-developed, extensive open hardware solution for extracellular electrophysiology.
Founded by Josh Siegle and Jakob Voigts, its motivation resonantes with Labrigger:
We are not motivated to create new tools for their…
Makerwise: comparing 3d printers
3D printing is a great tool. However, I still don’t recommend buying your own 3D printer. Use a service instead (e.g., Ponoko, Shapeways, or Quickparts). Here’s why:
1. The technology moves…
Site news
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The Labrigger audience has been steadily growing since it launched. Many, many more people visit Labrigger in a month than attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting (web traffic aficionados, that’s unique visitors, humans not robots,…
Smartport for open source handheld laser control
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Wicked Lasers makes laser pointers. High quality, high power laser pointers that can be repurposed for other applications. In fact, some of their lasers should probably never be used as pointers (e.g., this 2…
Oscilloscope watch
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It tells time, and has a calendar, alarm, oscilloscope, waveform generator, logic analyzer, protocol sniffer, and a frequency counter.
There’s about a month to go on the Kickstarter campaign, if you want one.
The maker, Gabriel Anzziani, has a good track record. Here are some of his earlier devices:
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US Government Shutdown, NIH, NSF
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The US Government is in shutdown right now. What does that mean for researchers funded by the NIH and NSF?
This notice explains what to expect with respect to the NIH. If that link…
Fast resonant scanning two-photon scope from UCLA
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Here’s an update on the scope from Joshua Trachtenberg’s team. If you want one, contact them at: info.neurolabware@gmail.com
This is another moving objective microscope, like the Sutter (Denk/MOM) scope, and the Thorlabs scope. Here’s…
Bruker buys Prairie
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You might recognize the Bruker brand from their small animal MRI machines. It’s a decently large company (market cap $3.4B).
They just bought Prairie Technologies, the Madison, WI-based manufacturer of multiphoton microscopes ($11M in 2012…
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The magazine Popular Science dates back to 1872. It’s older than Nature (1879), Science (1880), and American Scientist (1913). It was originally an academic journal, before it split into two parts, with the academic portion eventually being absorbed into Science. It’s high quality…
Voltset – Multimeter plugs into Android phone
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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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Intel’s Minnowboard
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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…
