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3D Slicer is a software for medical image informatics, image processing, and three-dimensional visualization. It’s extremely powerful and versatile with plenty of different options. It is a great tool for volume rendering, registration, interactive segmentation of images and even offers the possibility of running Python scripts thought an embedded Python interpreter.

The Craniobot is a cranial microsurgery platform that combines automated skull surface profiling with a computer numerical controlled (CNC) milling machine to perform a variety of cranial microsurgical procedures in mice.

LabMaker is a maker and assembly service for OPEN SCIENCE instruments. OPEN SCIENCE initiatives provide part lists or “Bill Of Materials” (BOM) for openly available scientific instruments. LabMaker bridges the gap between the BOM and the ready-to-use instrument for those not wanting to build by themselves.

An open-source, motorized, and modular microscope built using LEGO bricks, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and 3D printing. The microscope uses a Raspberry Pi mini-computer with an 8MP camera to capture images and videos.

Colaboratory is a free Jupyter notebook environment that runs in the cloud. Your notebooks get stored on Google Drive. The great advantage is that you don’t have to install anything (however, for some features you need a Google account) on your system to use it.

The motivation to start this project arises when we started to include a new behavioral paradigm in the lab, an alternation T-mace with return arms (like the one in Wood e_t al.

Bellow is a list of interesting projects related to science and research, that we didn’t have time to curate yet. Feel free to browse through them and make comments and suggestions!

Here are two projects that use card sized computers as the basic units for computing clusters: A 64 node cluster, build using pi’s and lego, built at the University of Southampton.

World Wide Series Seminar OpenFlexure is a 3D printed flexure translation stage, developed by a group at the Bath University. The stage is capable of sub-micron-scale motion, with very small drift over time.

OpenFuge describes all the materials and gives step by step instructions to the assembly of a centrifuge that is able to deliver 6000 G’s of force and to rotate at 9000 RPM, while being able to hold 4 eppendorf tubes.