Monthly archives: November, 2013

Expertise



CRISPR resources from the Zhang Lab at MIT

Few things in biology take off like CRISPR genome engineering technology has recently. Feng Zhang’s lab at MIT…



BioCoder

O’Reilly is publishing what is, at the moment, a newsletter called BioCoder, covering DIYBio topics.



Simple magnetic stir plate

Tekla Labs has DIY plans for lab equipment, such as this battery-operated magnetic stir plate.

The contest they’re sponsoring is probably to flesh this section out beyond the lonely 3 items at present.



DIY Lab Equipment Contest

Tekla Labs is sponsoring a contest to design lab equipment. There are already over 100 entries.



EyeWriter 2.0 Eye tracking system

The EyeWriter DIY project is for the disabled, but could work equally well for psychophysics applications. All of the code is open source, and the build is thoroughly documented.



BITalino

The BITalino is a microcontroller platform that comes with an array of sensors including sensors for electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography (ECG), electrodermal Activity (EDA), and more.

They have several APIs, including Matlab, LabVIEW, Python, C#, and Java.



Plotly (plot.ly) for collaborative data visualization and analysis

It could be described as a GoogleDocs-type app for data analysis. But that would be a lazy description.

Import your data, code up the analysis and visualization, and then share with collaborators who can view, modify, and…



Sensapex piezo manipulators… update

Labrigger covered Sensapex’s tiny manipulators in the past. Since then, Sensapex has broadened their offerings a bit.



SciScan: Scientifica’s two photon software

My friend Bruno has written some very nice software for Scientifica’s two photon microscope systems. It’s called SciScan.

It’s written in LabVIEW and runs both their conventional galvo and resonant systems. These…



Two photon technical notes



Not how to pipette

It’s Friday. Here’s a Friday link. It’s a blog entitled That’s Not How You Pipette, and it includes lots of shots from TV shows and movies.

The one below is from Private Practice:



Nominative determinism

Nominative determinism
Baron Brain