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Roughly put, psychophysics studies the relationships of physical stimuli and their respective elicited sensations and perception. Psyhophysics also relates to the techniques used to probe these relationships and the toolboxes here presented are mainly dealing with these techniques.

Pulse Pal is an open and inexpensive (~$210) alternative to pulse generators used in neurophysiology research, and is most often used to create precisely timed light trains in optogenetics assays.

Python is a free programming language that is widely used, most of the software developed for Linux is written in Python. It contains several libraries that cover a lot of problem domains, from asynchronous processing to zip files.

Red Pitaya is an computer+FPGA that has digital input and outputs and really fast analog inputs and outputs. It allows connection over ethernet and programming of custom routines. The system is powerful enough to have application in mostly all branches of neuroscience labs: oscilloscopes, signal generators and even a candidate for recording systems.

School of Data is a global network that aims to train civil society in the practical use of the large amount of data available nowadays. The network is composed of individuals and organizations that carry out training programs, hands-on courses and other activities in different regions and countries of the world.

A brief description of their current software (09.Sep.2016) is provided by one of their founders, Mattias Karlsson: State Script: Do you need to control lasers for optogenetics, stimulators, or other TTL-based devices with precise, temporally defined patterns?

BrainFlow BrainFlow is a library intended to obtain, parse and analyze EEG, EMG, ECG and other kinds of data from biosensors, it provides two APIs: Data Acquisition API to obtain data from BCI boards Signal Processing API which is completely independent and can be used without Data Acquisition API Both of these APIs are uniform for all supported boards, so it allows to write completely board agnostic code.

GenomeRNAi is a database containing phenotypes from RNA interference (RNAi) screens in Drosophila and Homo sapiens. In addition, the database provides an updated resource of RNAi reagents and their predicted quality.

GogoFuge is a good example of the power of opensource designs. IT was based on the idea of the DremelFuge and altered to be a tabletop centrifuge with vortex capability. It was created by Keegan Cooke

The Green Brain project wants to create an artificial Apis mellifera brain and implement said brain into a robot, that will be able to fly and and behave just like a honey bee!