Jul202011July 20, 2011July 17, 20111Commentby L.

Rapid prototyping is rapidly maturing

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In the past year, since Labrigger’s …

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Jul192011July 19, 2011July 19, 20110Commentby L.

Proto open source

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Ars Technica has a short, but nice article on the US Government’s role in AT&T’s decision to release Unix to a wider audience.

Bell…

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Jul192011July 19, 2011July 17, 20110Commentby L.

Baudline: Signal analysis

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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…

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Jul182011July 18, 2011July 17, 20110Commentby L.

Draw schematics online

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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.

(via)

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Jul172011July 17, 2011July 16, 20113Commentsby L.

2pLSM: When will scientists stop making their own?

Posted in Hardware

In the early days of patch clamp electrophysiology, everyone made their own patch clamp amplifiers because there were none commercially available. I was lucky enough to be educated by scientists of such lineage,…

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Jul162011July 16, 2011July 16, 20111Commentby L.

OpenPCR: Now shipping

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Over a year ago, we covered the OpenPCR project. Following their successful Kickstarter campaign, which netted twice their funding goal, they’re now actually shipping the devices.

To start, this is a $512 PCR…

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Jul032011July 3, 2011July 3, 20110Commentby L.

Papers per person per year

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The subject of prolificacy came up in lab the other day. A study from the 80s (pdf) plotted the number of papers from a lab versus the number of people…

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Jun182011June 18, 2011June 18, 20110Commentby L.

OpenMoCo for motion control

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OpenMoCo is short for “Open Motion Control”. The community is focussed on building rigs for moving cameras.

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Jun172011June 17, 2011June 17, 20111Commentby L.

1 yr mark

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Labrigger has been going for one year now.

105
Blog posts to date. That’s 0.29/day.

12.2%
Average monthly increase in traffic. This is excluding…

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Jun162011June 16, 2011June 17, 20112Commentsby L.

RF spotter

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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…

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Jun152011June 15, 2011June 15, 20111Commentby L.

Structured Illumination, pt. 2

Posted in Hardware, Tips

This is a long post. If you’re in a rush, then just read these first two paragraphs.

One of the early posts on this blog was about …

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Jun042011June 4, 2011June 4, 20110Commentby L.

MATLAB Menagerie

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There are several MATLAB-related items to post, but individually they don’t amount to much, so I’ll just…

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May282011May 28, 2011May 28, 20112Commentsby L.

HDF5 + XML = SDCubes

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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…

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May272011May 27, 2011May 27, 20113Commentsby L.

Destroying the curve

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So you’re feeling pretty good about the rodent virtual reality system (Hölscher et al. 2005) you have up and running. You’ve got it all… the spherical treadmill with motion tracking feeding back…

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May162011May 16, 2011May 16, 20114Commentsby L.

Online tools of questionable usefulness

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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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