Theory of spike initiation, sensory systems, autonomous behavior, epistemology
Editor Romain Brette
Andre Maia Chagas, Lucia Prieto Godino, Aristides B. Arrenberg, Tom Baden
This is quite exciting: the authors demonstrate the use of a 3D printed platform, with some basic electronics (Arduino, Raspberry Pi), which includes a microscope, manipulators, Peltier heating, and everything necessary to do optogenetics and fluorescence imaging, and behavioral tracking, all of this for about 200 €. The optics are apparently not great (about 10 µm precision) but could be replaced. This could be a way to convince theoreticians to do their own experiments!