Up on arXiv just recently, is Shlyonsky, Dupuis, and Gall’s OpenPicoAmp. They pitch it as an educational tool, and that’s probably what it’s best suited for, but the recordings look nice. It’s a fun PDF to…
Mouser has a new open hardware site that makes it easy to compare different platforms by specifications.
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When McMaster-Carr doesn’t carry the tiny parts you’re looking for, where can you go?
There used to be a company called Small Parts, and their catalog was great because everything in it was small. That…
Dear Vendors with Product Search Interfaces,
This list of measurements is complete nonsense. It’s sorted alphabetically, not even numerically (numbers are treated as letters). That’s why “24 inches” comes before “3 inches”, with “27.0 millimeters” in between. It’s not hard to fix. Convert all of…
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 up…
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 Espresso…
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…
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 website.
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