Intel’s Minnowboard
Posted in Hardware
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 processor,…
Autocorrelator for under $5k
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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…
Linux development boards
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Open Electronics has a nice overview and comparison of Linux Development boards like the Raspberry Pi.
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Pixy for easy Arduino machine vision
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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…
Nature subscriptions are cheap right now
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You just pay the impact factor right now for a subscription to Nature.
Converting them all into USD for comparison:
US: $38 (19% of the usual price)
Europe: $51 (18% of the usual price)
UK and…
Touchscreen display for Arduino and more
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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…
Actually, a pretty good sale
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…
X-ray crystallography of cookies
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This is perhaps the most exhilarating patent I’ve ever read:
Search for patent 4455333 at this link.
Here’s a excerpt:
When the cookie dough enters the oven, the water in the dough is saturated with sugar and appears to be evenly distributed throughout the dough. As the water temperature…
Pulsed laser power part 2
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In a previous post, we discussed how peak power is computed. Although Ti:Sapph laser manufacturers typically quote the average power, peak power is the more relevant quantity for two photon excitation. Here’s a graph…
Optogenetics scattering iOS app
Posted in Software
Here’s an iOS app which is basically a scattering calculator to help plan optogenetics experiments. There are also some plates from a brain atlas.
(via the OpenOptogenetics blog)
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