3D Printing Redux
One of the most impactful areas of open-source neuroscience has been the sharing of 3D printed designs. We've seen firsthand how valuable this is – our own collection of 3D printed objects has been one of the most accessed pages on OpenBehavior...
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2024 Year in Review
The past year was a good one for open-source tools. Based on the use of our website, sixty projects were accessed more than 100 times over the year. Four projects stood out with the most page hits. Two of these are video related. The other two are...
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Assessing Impact
Over the past four years, the OpenBehavior project has been dedicated to sharing news about open-source tools for neuroscience research. Now, we're taking a closer look at the impact of these tools! Measuring Impact Through Page HitsUsing data from...
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Community interactions: TheBehaviourForum.org
We would like to share news on TheBehaviourForum.org. It is a website that hosts discussions on topics in animal behavioral research and includes forums for discussing many of the same topics that we features here on OpenBehavior. We encourage you...
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Video Repository: Change in license and upcoming activities
This week, we report on a change in the licenses for the videos in our repository. We also report plans to expand our efforts to help researchers access video data sets from neuroscience experiments. We are delighted to find that our video...
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Printed Circuit Boards
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the flat, often green boards found inside most electronic devices and in microcontrollers such as Arduino. They provide a way to connect electronic components together and contain etched copper traces that act...
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Resources for learning electronics
This is a post with some good news that we wanted to share with the community.Luis Garcia is a Boy Scout. He used resources on the OpenBehavior website for his Electronics Merit Badge. Our resources page includes links to websites where you can...
read moreOpen-source tools: stuck & struggling?
At our pre-SfN workshop on open-source tools, participants discussed the need for more interactions among researchers using the tools. Sometimes people get help with their projects by posting on social media. But not everyone sees these...
read moreA Summary on the 2023 Open-Source Tools Workshop
The OpenBehavior project organized a workshop on open-source tools on November 10 and 11 as an official satellite event of the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The workshop was held at American University in Washington DC, with...
read moreIs Open Source really open to all without a license?
Something that might have never crossed the minds of most open-source developers at some point in their careers is the need to license their work. The project that you have been developing is finally ready to be published and shared with the...
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