Sep202012September 20, 2012October 10, 20121Commentby L.

Scientifica’s 2p scope

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With its newly introduced scan head, Scientifica’s 2p scope is finally a complete package. They’re happy to sell their modular design in pieces, so this fills the void between fully custom rigs and turnkey…

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Sep192012September 19, 2012September 19, 20120Commentby L.

Nice enclosures

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Most project enclosures are cheap and ugly. I challenge anyone to find something from PacTec that Dieter Rams would want in his house.

The following suggestions might not be Rams-worthy either, but they’re a step…

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Sep182012September 18, 2012September 18, 20120Commentby L.

Sequestration = 41% cut in new and competing NIH funding

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It’s hard to find any objective analysis that says that the US government can keep paying its bills without some combination of tax increases and cuts to entitlement programs. It’s also hard to find any objective analysis that would predict that politicians would get reelected for doing such things. With that in mind, congress inacted…

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Sep122012September 12, 2012September 10, 20120Commentby L.

The collective intelligence of world-leading neuroscientists

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That’s who is credited with creating Boston-NeuroTalks (look at the bottom of their page). It turns out that Boston’s a bit of a college town, and thus it’s difficult to keep up with…

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Sep112012September 11, 2012September 8, 20122Commentsby L.

A custom two photon scope on a wall

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Sep102012September 10, 2012September 8, 20121Commentby L.

The Labrigger General Electronics Troubleshooting Guide

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This is a work in progress, please contribute additions, thoughts, and criticism (constructive and otherwise) in the comments.

Step 0. RTFM.

Step 1. Turn it off and back on.
Congrats. There is…

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Sep062012September 6, 2012September 6, 20127Commentsby L.

Raspberry Pi – Arduinolike form and price, but with way more power

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RDUINO A


Sep052012September 5, 2012September 5, 20122Commentsby L.

DIY Superresolution, part III

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Enrico Stefani’s lab at UCLA has a couple of crack engineers on board, Yong Wu and Pedro Felipe Gardeazábal Rodríguez. These two fellows built a custom STED system and have documented the setup on…

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Sep022012September 2, 2012August 29, 20120Commentby L.

3D printed Titanium at iMaterialize

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Looks good. Should be handy. And a bit pricey. These metal powder-based 3D printing materials aren’t bad. The products are much more brittle than real, solid metal is. But they’re also very light, and…

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Sep012012September 1, 2012August 29, 20125Commentsby L.

DIY Superresolution, part II

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This paper (York et al. 2012) came out earlier this year, but I thought it’s worth highlighting here, give the subject matter.

We present a hybrid technique, multifocal SIM (MSIM), that combines the resolution-doubling…

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Aug312012August 31, 2012August 29, 20121Commentby L.

Meanwhile, at Labrigger Labs

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Safety first, people. srsly
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Aug302012August 30, 2012September 1, 20127Commentsby L.

Getting NEURON to run on OS X with Python support

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UPDATED!
This question has come up a number of times recently: how does one get NEURON to run with Python support on OS X.

At this time, there’s no simple way to install NEURON with Python support any more because Eilif’s package is outdated and won’t run with current EPD and XCode versions. The…

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Aug292012August 29, 2012August 29, 20120Commentby L.

Micro-Manager

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Micro-Manager (µ-Manager) is an open, ImageJ-based suite of code for controlling microscopes and associated instrumentation. Check out the list of supported equipment.

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Aug292012August 29, 2012August 29, 20120Commentby L.

Open access soon to be free?

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PeerJ is a new open access journal and their killer feature is that they charge less.

What does this mean for publishing? It means it’s getting cheap fast. PLoS journals charge $1400+ for each…

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Aug292012August 29, 2012August 29, 20120Commentby L.

Three quick productivity tips

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There’s probably a 10:1 ratio between productivity tips and people implementing them. So this’ll be short.

– Stay organized, but keep it simple. E.g., one text file with a few lists. Don’t go in for complex software or systems.
– This book “Getting Things Done” is a quick read with some good tips.
– Use…

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