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This project was developed by Katherine Scott to be presented at the PyCon 2014. She developed a skinner box for her pet rats using a raspberry pi and some 3D printed parts.

Although stereo microscopes are an essential piece of hardware in biology labs, sometimes we wish they had more features, like the possibility to record the magnified images with a camera, or have a better lighting system to enhance contrast on those small samples.

From the Pearce lab, this syringe pump was published in Plos One and is built using 3d printed parts, stepper motors and a raspberry pi, costing 5% or less than commercial available systems.

Takktile, is a tactile sensor to be used on robotic applications. The developers want to make it move away from the closed walls of research institutions by making it open source and cheap.

Although of simple complexity and using low currents, this tDCS machine is still to be considered a piece of equipment that could be dangerous both in the assembly and in the operation phases, so please inform yourself as best as you can before either of these steps!

Google has packaged their deeplearning machine learning tools and made it open source. The project is called tensorflow, and is available here. Some nice tutorials on the website, so that with a bit of patience, people can start to deep their toes into machine learning!

The Visible Human Project is a database of anatomical images (MR, CT and radiography) from male and female bodies. Information about the database is translated into a couple of different languages.

The Yale open hand project, has a similar purpose of the open hand project, that is, to make prosthetic hands more widely available through the lowering of costs. They have a different design from the open hand project.

Vision Egg is a Python library for generating visual stimuli. In more detail, it is a high level interface in between Python and OpenGL, and can use inexpensive consumer grade graphics cards to generate precise visual stimuli.

Here are some open learning sources, they go from sites that interactively teach one how to code, to efforts in publishing free college textbooks. Khan Academy: Is composed of a series of lectures and exercises on a wide range of topics from basic multiplication to linear algebra and information theory.