Cameron Woodard has kindly shared the following write up about PiDose, an open source system for oral drug administration to group-housed mice. “PiDose is an open-source tool for scientists performing drug administration experiments with mice. It allows for automated...
This week we want to talk about joy! I mean, joy-sticks. Parley Belsey, Mark Nicholas and Eric Yttri have developed and shared an open-source joystick for studying motor behavior and decision making in mice! Mice are hopping and popping in research, and so...
Erno Kuusela and Juho Lämsä, from the University of Oulu in Finland, have shared their design for an open source, computer controlled robotic flower system for studying bumble bee behavior. Oh.. to be a honey bee.. collecting nectar from a robotic flower.. of...
Nikolas Francis and colleagues from the Kanold Laboratory at the University of Maryland – College Park (moved to JHU in 2020) have developed and shared ToneBox, a system for high-throughput operant conditioning in a mouse homecage. Data collection for operant...
Chelsea C. Wong and colleagues at the University of California – San Francisco have developed and shared a design for an open-source behavioral chamber for the measurement of forelimb function in rats. Forelimb function (reaching, grasping, retrieving, etc) is a...
