Open Source Joystick

Open Source Joystick

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...
Robotic Flower System for Bee Behavior

Robotic Flower System for Bee Behavior

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...
ToneBox: a system for automated auditory operant conditioning

ToneBox: a system for automated auditory operant conditioning

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...
An automated behavioral box to assess forelimb function in rats

An automated behavioral box to assess forelimb function in rats

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...
Automated Home-Cage Rodent Two-bottle Choice Test

Automated Home-Cage Rodent Two-bottle Choice Test

Elizabeth Godynyuk and colleagues from the Creed Lab at Washington University, St. Louis recently published their design for a two-bottle choice homecage apparatus in eNeuro. It incorporates the original design (published on Hackaday.io in May 2018), modifications...