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High-speed device synchronization in optical microscopy with an open-source hardware control platform

Publishing date: 2019-09-05 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: High-speed synchronization of multiple devices is a necessity for modern optical microscopy techniques and this paper simplifies the process for those building custom microscope systems by providing a hardware control platform that reduces the need for custom software while expanding the scope of compatible peripheral devices.

Internet of Things Applied in Healthcare Based on Open Hardware with Low-Energy Consumption

Publishing date: 2019-09-05 Published on: Healthcare Informatics Research summary: The Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications are growing simultaneously. These applications need new intelligent devices along heterogeneous networking. Which makes them costly to implement indeed.

Leveraging conservation action with open‐source hardware

Publishing date: 2019-09-05 Published on: The Society for Conservation Biology summary: Data collection by conservation biologists is undergoing radical change, with researchers collaborating across disciplines to create bespoke, low‐cost monitoring equipment from open‐source hardware (OSH).

Nesting box imager: Contact-free, real-time measurement of activity, surface body temperature, and respiratory rate applied to hibernating mouse models

Publishing date: 2019-09-05 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: If you’re trying to measure animal activity without disturbing a hibernating animal your options were previously limited and expensive but the growing utility and shrinking price of sensors, cameras and single-board computers has enabled this device for monitoring mice nesting boxes using a Raspberry Pi and an infrared camera for under $400.

Facilitating reproducible project management and manuscript development in team science: The projects R package

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The contemporary scientific community places a growing emphasis on the reproducibility of research. The projects R package is a free, open-source package created in the interest of facilitating reproducible research workflows.

How to support open-source software and stay sane

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: Nature Toolbox summary: Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers. It’s a familiar problem: open-source software is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably.

Open collaborative writing with Manubot

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Traditionally, scholarly manuscripts have been written in private by a predefined team of collaborators. But now the internet enables realtime open science, where project communication occurs online in a public venue and anyone is able to contribute.

Open Source Is Good, but How Can It Do Good?

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: Linux Journal summary: The Open Source world may not be so explicit about the underlying ethical aspect, but most coders probably would hope that their programming makes the world a better place.

Kankanet: An artificial neural network-based object detection smartphone application and mobile microscope as a point-of-care diagnostic aid for soil-transmitted helminthiases

Publishing date: 2019-08-05 Published on: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases summary: None authors: Ariel Yang, Nahid Bakhtari, Liana Langdon-Embry, Emile Redwood, Simon Grandjean Lapierre, Patricia Rakotomanga, Armand Rafalimanantsoa, Juan De Dios Santos, Inès Vigan-Womas, Astrid M.

Low-cost solution for rodent home-cage behaviour monitoring

Publishing date: 2019-08-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Surjeet Singh, Edgar Bermudez-Contreras, Mojtaba Nazari, Robert J. Sutherland, Majid H. Mohajerani link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220751 Icons made by catkuro from www.