Pitch in and share!
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Don’t be shy.
If you have a tip to share, however small or big, please do so using the new link above.
You can do it anonymously, if you like. Or you can get full…
Tag: openness
Over 100 DIY pieces of lab equipment
Posted in Hardware
Labrigger previously mentioned this contest. All of the 173 projects are online for your perusal. See if any of them inspire you.
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Preserve your rights – Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine
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Creative Commons‘ science section has an easy-to-use web page that generates a PDF form you can attach to the publisher’s copyright form to ensure you reserve certain rights.
Previously on…
EasyEDA – Electronics design in a browser
Posted in Hardware
EasyEDA is an online electronic design automation (EDA) tool. It has all the required parts: schematic drawing, simulation, and PCB layout. It also has some nice features that make sharing easy. Not…
Mouser’s open hardware site
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Mouser has a new open hardware site that makes it easy to compare different platforms by specifications.
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ScanBox – free, open, MATLAB-based software for two-photon microscopy
Posted in Software
Dario Ringach has written some nice software for the Trachtenberg scope mentioned before on Labrigger. They also have put together their own Cypress PSoC-based hardware box to control several parts of the system.
He set…
Protocols.io – 3 days left
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As Labrigger mentioned earlier this week, ZappyLab is running a Kickstarter campaign to jump start their crowd-sourced protocol repository, Protocols.io.
Perhaps the most attractive reward they’re offering for pledging are the Black Russian…
ZappyLab Kickstarter: 1 week left!
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This is exactly up the alley of what Labrigger is interested in supporting. There’s just one week left in their Kickstarter campaign. As of this writing, 300 people have contributed $30,000. With one final push this last week, they’ll meet their goal.
They want to crowd…
StimFit
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Christoph Schmidt-Hieber and his collaborators Guzman and Schlogel have developed a cross platform (Linux, Windows, and OS X) application for analyzing electrophysiology data. Here’s the paper (open access). And here’s the code’s…
PLoS One requires full data release with publication
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authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article
Examples could include spreadsheets of original measurements (of cells, of fluorescent intensity, of respiratory volume), large datasets such as next-generation sequence reads,…
ACQ4: A Python-based open source system for neurophysiology
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Luke Campagnola, Megan Kratz, and Paul Manis recently published their in-house software for neurophysiology experiments. It’s an extensive set of tools, including multiphoton imaging, photostimulation mapping, image mosaic construction, electrophysiology, and more.
Website: acq4.org
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More resources
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André Maia Chagas recently pointed us towards his blog, Open Neuroscience. It turned us on to Sparkfun’s educational section. It’s very extensive and well curated.
By the way, Sparkfun also has education discount that…
Book: Open-Source Lab
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Unfortunately, the book itself is not open, but it has a couple of chapters available online.
(Elsevier store)
(via)
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DIY Lab Equipment Contest
Posted in Hardware
Tekla Labs is sponsoring a contest to design lab equipment. There are already over 100 entries.
